Professional practice, patience and respect

 

A note to remind you please to exercise professional behaviour in your communications with and expectations of your supervisiors role at this point in term.

Please respect that your draft of work is not the only draft we are working with in this period. Please do not send a draft of work and book a supervision to discuss that draft within the same week, this applies to sending work in on Friday and booking a supervision for the Monday following the weekend - this is not an appropriate expectation.

The dates for draft work to be submitted are scheduled to allow time for your supervisor to read, comment and respond, have discussions of your work in time for you to still develop the work for final submission at the end of the term.

As you know, this is not a process of receiving feedback, re-working the draft and re-submitting it for more feedback before submission so please do be patient, you will receive feedback in time to develop the work further. Please do not send further drafts to your supervisior after feedback - note: reading through your next draft of an essay during a supervision is also not appropriate.

This is not to be mean or tight with time, it is a pedagogy of practice developed through these programmes to encourage independent leanring and your own autonomy over the work you produce. Think about how you develop your own critical thinking - ask questions in order to grow further in your work, rather than ask someone else to tell you if it is 'right'!!