Academic Discovery - Foundations of Effective Teaching

The aim of the program is to orient you to the key themes that shape learning and teaching in a university. The module concentrates on important and useful elements of education practice and asks you to consider these in relation to your own educational work. In this way, the program will:

• provide a means for new educators to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and development as competent and effective practitioners;
• inspire participants to become reflective practitioners by offering conceptual frameworks for critical reflection and practical mechanisms for building a teaching portfolio, thus securing a commitment to continuing professional development;
• communicate the importance of evidence-informed practice, providing opportunities for participants to engage critically with appropriate pedagogic literature and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in order to enhance their teaching practice;
• create opportunities for participants to benefit from peer support, evaluation and feedback in relation to their teaching practice;
• stimulate professional dialogue around learning and teaching, and to promote dissemination of good practice within and beyond departmental, disciplinary and institutional contexts;
• sustain the growth of an institutional culture which values, supports and rewards teaching excellence, and which unites teaching and research in effective, creative and innovative ways.