Scholarly Teaching: to explore, evaluate and improve
Duration
One Semester
Contact hours
- 8 hours per week
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
Prerequisites
None
Available Semester 2 2022
Corequisites
None
Aims and objectives
Aim
Students will explore the concept of teaching as a scholarly activity and develop strategies for evaluating their teaching in order to use evidence to improve student learning, inform teaching practice and further their professional learning and career.
Learning Objectives
1. Analyse and reflect upon evaluation literature to critique evaluation methods and practices
2. Evaluate methods for collecting evidence to enhance professional practice, improve student learning outcomes and advance your career.
3. Appreciate different avenues for the dissemination of information about your teaching practice.
4. Critically reflect on own learning and teaching practice to enable the development of professional applications.
Courses with unit
A unit of study in the Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Higher Education)
Offered Semester 2 2022
A scholarly teaching approach helps you to improve your teaching practices and your students’ learning outcomes while also providing evidence that you can use to advance your academic career.
In this elective unit you will begin the development of a teaching award application that you can submit once you have gathered the necessary evidence to support your argument. We will also explore the evaluation literature with a view to you developing your own teaching evaluation plan, which also can contribute to the collection of evidence to support your teaching award application. The unit focuses on relevant, evidence based, pragmatic practices which are intrinsic to good teaching.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Online.
It is expected that students will need to allocate approximately 8 hours per week for online activities and independent study.
Assessment
Assessment 1: Peer Review (Individual) 15%
Each student is to submit a draft narrative for their planned evaluation project and then is assigned two peers who will review the submission and provide comments for improvement.
Assessment 1: Paper (Individual) 35%
The paper requires you to reflect on your own teaching, make an argument for its excellence, and identify evidence that would support the argument. The paper will be drafted, peer reviewed, revised and then submitted for summative assessment.
Assessment 2: Plan (Individual) 50%
General skills outcomes
Key generic skills
- Analysis skills
- Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
Content
- Scholarly teaching vs the scholarship of teaching and learning
- Good teaching practice indicators
- Evaluation: why, what, types and methods
- Evaluation planning
- Dissemination methods
- Moving towards scholarly teaching practice
Study resources
- Reading materials and text books.
Reading materials
There is no required textbook for this unit
Text books
There is no required textbook for this unit.
All recommended readings are available online.
All recommended readings are available online.