Charles Sturt Executive Dean's Teaching Award

This may include:

• Fostering student development by stimulating curiosity and independence in learning
• Participating in effective and empathetic guidance and advice for students
• Assisting students from equity and other demographic subgroups to participate and achieve success in their course
• Encouraging student engagement through the enthusiasm shown for learning and teaching
• Inspiring and motivating students through effective communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Enabling others to enhance their approaches to learning and teaching
• Developing and/or integrating assessment strategies to enhance student learning
• Evaluating the quality of programs and activities including consideration of past and current student feedback to support student learning
• Collaborating with students in learning experiences that involve problem solving, collaboration and critical thinking around authentic issues
• Using pedagogical strategies that align with authentic workplace settings
• Supporting students towards Indigenous cultural competency
• Encouraging students to challenge themselves to attempt new experiences
• Building partnerships with the community/industry to provide students with insight into the workplace

This may include:

• Developing and presenting coherent and imaginative resources for student learning
• Implementing research-led approaches to learning and teaching
• Demonstrating up-to-date knowledge of the field of study in the design of the curriculum and the creation of resources for learning
• Communicating clear objectives and expectations for student learning
• Providing support to those involved in the development of curricula and resources
• Contributing professional expertise to enhance curriculum or resources
• Evaluating the quality of curriculum, resources, or services.
• Partnering with community/industry to develop authentic resources and materials
• Leading and working with peers to develop resources and teaching materials that reflect the Charles Sturt regions and student cohorts
• Designing curricula that explicitly scaffold student learning throughout the program
• Actively engaging in curriculum design for course and subject review, leading processes that utilise data and field knowledge to inform the design
• Engaging students/industry/community/professions in the co-design of learning experiences that are innovative and student centred
• Collaborating to build resources that support integrated learning opportunities for students

This may include:

• Showing advanced skills in assessment/alternative assessment practices
• Using a variety of assessment strategies to bring about change
• Adapting assessment methods to different contexts and diverse student needs and learning styles
• Contributing professional expertise to the field of assessment to improve program design and delivery
• Dissemination and embedding of good practice identified through assessment
• Evaluating the quality of the assessment practices
• Supporting colleagues to reflect and improve assessment of learning teaching through communities of practice, mentoring, collegial review
• Utilising diverse approaches to gathering student data around assessment and responding to feedback
• Engaging in peer review processes of assessment practice to support innovative and quality assessment design

This may include:

• Participating in and contributing to professional activities related to learning and teaching
• Innovation in service and support for students; coordination, management and leadership of courses and student learning
• Conducting and publishing research related to teaching
• Demonstrating leadership through activities that have broad influence on the profession
• Providing innovative learning and teaching for different contexts, including technology enhanced environments, for large and small class sizes and/or to meet the needs of a diverse student cohort
• Influencing the overall academic, social, and cultural experience of higher education
• Evaluating the feasibility of the innovation or the quality of leadership that enhances learning and teaching and/or influence student experience
• Researching and exploring opportunities to engage students with issues of sustainability, community building, real world problem-solving in learning and teaching
• Co-creating learning experiences with the profession/communities that transform student understandings of culture, self, and work
• Leading innovative curriculum design that is multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural and future facing