Novel teaching methods and outstanding research supervision will be under the spotlight during The University of Queensland's fifth annual UQ Teaching and Learning Week from October 30 to November 3.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Michael Keniger said UQ’s Teaching and Learning Week would provide opportunities for the UQ community to engage in discussion of topical teaching and learning issues that will impact on their approach to teaching and on their students’ learning experience.
One of the highlights of the week will be when the University honours its own outstanding teachers at the Teaching and Learning Excellence Awards at Customs House on October 30.
Professor Keniger said the awards were designed to recognise, encourage and reward sustained excellence in teaching, supervision of research higher degree candidates, and excellence in the learning environment and provision of student services.
“The awards recognise the University’s inspirational teachers and teaching teams,” Professor Keniger said.
“Making the learning experience a good and exciting one for students depends on not just what happens in the classroom but the quality of their interactions both with teachers and with one another.”
This year, five $10,000 Awards for Excellence in Teaching will be presented to individuals.
Two teams will each win $10,000 Awards for the Enhancement of Student Learning and up to three individuals will be presented with $10,000 Awards for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision.
The guest speaker at the awards will be Professor Mick Healey, Director of the Centre for Active Learning at The University of Gloucestershire, who will talk about his experiences of teaching excellence in the United Kingdom.
Professor Healey will also present a seminar earlier in the day on the topic: Linking discipline-based research and teaching to benefit student learning.
Other events during the week will include:
– Professor Barry McGaw, from the University of Melbourne [formerly Director of the Directorate for Education in the OECD], will present the keynote address at the Internationalisation of Education forum. This will be followed by a panel discussion on Student Mobility
– The Effective Teaching and Learning Conference, being hosted by UQ in conjunction with Griffith University and the Queensland University of Technology, will have as its theme, Challenging Issues for Teaching & Learning in the 21st Century.
See what else is on during Teaching and Learning Week by visiting http://www.uq.edu.au/teaching-learning/
Media inquiries: Andrew Dunne at UQ Communications (07 3365 2802 or 0433 364 181).
