Foundations of University Learning & Teaching
Semester 3 2012

• Are you a new university teacher?
• Have you recently graduated with your PhD?
• Are you coming from industry to develop the emerging workforce?
• Have you come to Bond from another university in Australia or overseas?
• Have you been teaching at Bond for some time and want to discover some new ideas in teaching and learning?

If you answered “Yes!” to any of these questions, then you may be interested in joining a group of your colleagues in the –
Foundations of University Learning and Teaching Subject.

• Outline
• Learning Outcomes
• Agenda
• Assessment
• Facilitators

Outline

As a participant in the Foundations of University Learning and Teaching Subject, you will:

• Develop your teaching skills and explore the theory of how your students learn, through a balance of process and content.
• Actively experience how your disciplinary expertise and teaching skill work together to intertwine teaching and learning.
• Embark on a path of academic teaching with a skill set and the confidence that you can translate your industry knowledge into useful attributes for graduates as they enter your field.

In addition, this subject is the equivalent of one full subject toward a Graduate Certificate in Education should you wish to pursue this credential.
Our goals for you are to:

• Induct you into your teaching role at Bond University.
• Provide affirmation that you are doing the right thing as a Bond teacher.
• Help you enhance your teaching through increasing your understanding of how your students learn.

Learning Outcomes

Through active participation in all FULT components, you will be able to:

• Plan and apply best teaching practices.
  • Articulate what matters to you about teaching.
  • Write appropriate learning outcomes.
  • Apply Adult Learning principles.
  • Incorporate Bond University Graduate Attributes into your teaching.
  • Present information confidently.
  • Enhance teaching communication skills.
  • Engage your students in discussion.
• Structure valuable assessment and feedback.
  • Design assessment that aligns with learning outcomes.
  • Ensure that learning is integrated in the assessment process.
  • Grade assessment fairly.
  • Provide constructive feedback to your learners.
• Design your curriculum and teach to diverse learners.
  • Internationalise your curriculum and teaching approach.
  • Incorporate a global perspective into your curriculum.
  • Apply the principles of Universal Design for Learning.
  • Encourage higher order thinking skills.
• Frame teaching and learning research.
  • Apply concepts of validity and reliability.
  • Develop a scholarship and teaching nexus.
• Design iLearn sites grounded on pedagogical principles.

The total time commitment is 100 hours, loosely broken-down into 10 hours/week for 10 weeks. Twenty-eight hours will be spent in the classroom. Twelve hours are dedicated to Peer Review of Teaching Observation. Sixty hours will be spent reading, reflecting and interacting with online materials and in preparing assessment activities.

The Foundations of University Learning and Teaching includes both classroom-based educational experience, and peer-review of teaching.

• Classroom-based Educational Experience
  There are 28 hours of classroom education divided into one full-day session and seven evenings. In order to receive credit for this subject, you must participate in the full-day session and six of the seven evening sessions. Lunch will be provided for the full-day session and dinner for each of the evening sessions. Please advise of any dietary needs. You will engage in active learning within each session. Information will be presented, exemplars shared, panels of Bond Academic colleagues invited, and practice exercises facilitated.
   
• Peer-observation of Teaching
  The Foundations of University Learning and Teaching Subject provides you with the unique opportunity to observe a colleague’s teaching and receive constructive feedback on your teaching. You will be matched with a Senior Academic in a Faculty other than your own. You will observe his/her teaching in order to observe strategies that you may choose to incorporate into your own teaching approach. He/she will observe your teaching and provide constructive feedback.
• Note that the peer-observation of teaching component must be conducted within an actual lecture and/or tutorial that you are teaching in the first semester of 2012. If you are on a non-teaching semester, you may arrange to guest teach for a colleague in your Faculty.

Agenda

Location of Classroom Component

Learning and Teaching Meeting Room
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Assessment

There are three equally weighted components of assessment. Each will be graded as a pass or fail. All failed items of assessment may be rewritten and resubmitted once. All three assessment tasks must be submitted by the due-date and graded as a pass in order to have met the completion requirements of Foundations of University Learning and Teaching.

1. Weekly self-assessment.
   Goals and action plan using the easy to complete template provided.
   Submitted before the next weekly session.
2. In-class teach your peers session.
   Lesson Plan
   Submitted before session 6 (9 October 2012).
3. Report on peer-observation of teaching.
   Written feedback forms and group collaborative reflection participation. Scholarly paper on teaching and learning, your question related to your teaching and your discipline (4 pages, approx. 2000 words, not including the reference list). For publication in the annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Fostering Early Career Research book.
   Submitted 11 December 2012.

Facilitators

Subject Coordinator     Dr Shelley Kinash
                                         Director - Learning and Teaching 
                                         skinash@bond.edu.au

Subject Convenors      Kayleen Wood
                                         Academic Developer - OLT
                                         kawood@bond.edu.au

                                         Ron Kordyban
                                         Educational Developer - OLT
                                         rkordyba@bond.edu.au

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