showcasing teaching excellence
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Showcasing Teaching Excellence . Stepping stones to teaching and learning success Project Team: Vicky Mabin James Richard Heike Schänzel Robyn Moore Marina Dobrovolskaya. Background. Goals – To recognise good teaching and raise teaching standards across the FCA - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Stepping stones to
teaching and learning
success
Project Team:Vicky MabinJames RichardHeike SchänzelRobyn MooreMarina Dobrovolskaya
Showcasing Teaching Excellence
Goals – To recognise
good teaching and raise
teaching standards
across the FCA
Idea – To develop a One-
Stop teaching and
learning resource for our
commerce teachers
Accessible Collection
– Strategies, ideas and
insights from our people
Background
Interviews conducted
with teachers from FCA
between July and
November, 2010.
Focus – on teaching
context, goals, process,
strategies, challenges,
outcomes, and big
lessons.
What we did
VoicesListening to the
voices of some of
our best teachers
Successful teaching and learning – Key Themes
Successful
teaching is a
matter of attitude
and energy rather
than a specific
teaching style
– FCA teacher http
://www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/successful-teaching-learning.aspx
Teachers bring different personalities that lead to individual teaching stylesA positive attitude towards teaching and class interaction is a mustSuccessful teaching requires a level of physicality and involvementSuccessful teaching requires a high level of organisation and preparationStudents need relevant, 'real world' learning
Tools
Teachers in action
http://
www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/video-clips.aspxHow learning works – teaching
smart
http://
www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/how-learning-works.aspx
Teacher self-audit
http://
www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/teaching-audit.aspx
Project Resources
http://
www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/project-resources.aspx
Inside
To Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Academic) Professor Penny
Boumelha for support and funding,
through a VUW Learning and
Teaching Fund 2010 grant.
To Assistant Vice-Chancellor
(Academic) Associate Professor
David Crabbe,
Dr Stephen Marshall (Acting Director,
UTDC) and Dr Kathryn Sutherland
(UTDC/FHSS), for support and advice.
To our FCA colleagues.
Visit Teaching Matters at http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/
We value your continued feedback.
Thank you