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York Learning and Teaching Award (YLTA) 

YLTA is a taught course designed to support York-based Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) reflect on and develop your practice. It is also intended to help you plan for future employment. For this reason, YLTA challenges participants to look beyond the constraints of your current role as a GTA in order to understand the full range of responsibilities and expectations for academics who teach and support student learning across the UK Higher Education sector.

The course integrates online self-study materials with campus based workshops, peer-support systems, and supervisory support by an experienced academic. The course integrates reflection on your own experience of teaching as a GTA with relevant principles, policies, and pedagogical research.  The aim is to equip you to autonomously address teaching issues and enhancements relevant to your role proactively and constructively. Central to this objective is an emphasis on developing an inter-disciplinary, collaborative, and scholarly approach to teaching.

YLTA is designed to support continuous learning across the nine months through your ongoing development of a summatively assessed Portfolio grounded in your teaching practice as a GTA. 

In addition to the award of 20 Masters-level credits, YLTA is accredited by Advance HE to award Associate Fellow of the HEA (AFHEA) to those who successfully complete the course.

For experienced GTAs who would prefer not to undertake a taught course to achieve AFHEA, you might be interested in our York Professional and Academic Development (YPAD) scheme instead.

Apply for YLTA 2023/24 

The main round of applications for 2023/24 entry closed on the 27 April 2023. As we still have a small number of places remaining on the course, we are extending the process to a second round offering places on a first-come-first served basis to any applicants who meet the essential criteria. We will next be reviewing these applications in the week commencing 17 July 2023. 

Please refer to the Application Guidance below for further information before completing the form. 

Contact

For more information on YLTA, contact academic-practice@york.ac.uk