Sharing teaching ideas

Encouraging Teaching Innovation - Penny Harris and David Vance - Faculty of Creative Arts
The Innovations Committee, an informal sub-committee reporting to FEC, has the brief to translate contemporary teaching approaches and methods into teaching practice. It takes an issue such as collaboration or inter-disciplinarity and examines models for delivering these learning experiences within current structures. An outcome is continual review of the structures and their relevance.

Supporting staff development in learning and teaching - Stuart Kaye and Damien Considine - Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law offers forums, mentoring, support to attend workshops and conferences, rewards for teaching performance, peer review and a range of other opportunities to encourage staff to achieve excellence in learning and teaching.

Teaching professionalism - Department of Nursing - Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
The Department of Nursing actively encourages teaching professionalism, using collaboration, discussion forums, staff development and a range of evaluation techniques.

Tutor training & orientation CDRom - Anne Porter and Caz Sandison - Faculty of Informatics
A web site for casual mathematics and statistics tutors (teaching assistants) was developed, with links to a tutor training and orientation package at the University of Wollongong. The site was designed for tutors do not have prior training as teachers.