UOW Casual Teachers

About the University

• About UOW

Employment

• Job vacancies for casual teachers
• Academic Casual Employees Policy
• Rates of pay

Responsibilities

• Induction
• Your responsibilities as a teaching academic
• Conduct
• Services for your students

• Academic Staff Development (CEDIR)
• Professional and Organisational Development Service (PODS)
• Library

Teaching and Learning

• What do I need to know about teaching and learning at the university?
• Code of Practice - Teaching and Assessment
• Teaching@UOW Booklet
• Academic Staff Development Workshops
• University Learning and Teaching course
• Request a teaching survey
• A compilation of teaching resources

A compilation of teaching resources

• Getting Started
  This resource provided by the Teaching and educational Development institute at the University of Queensland is an excellent collection of resources to assist you with teaching.
  
  
• AVCC Gudelines on effective teaching
  These Guidelines are based on research into teaching and learning, on good practices in institutions, and on criteria used in teaching awards, and in tenure and promotion procedures.
  
  
• First Meeting with Students
  This downloadable handout provides advice on what to do in your first class.
  
  
  

  Small Group Teaching

• Soliman, I. 1999 Teaching Small Groups, UNE.
  This resource provides a range of useful information on small group activities, strategies for improving student participation, troubleshooting and assessing your students’ and your own participation.
  
  
  
• Small Group Teaching, University of Alabama School of Medicine
  Although this resource sits on the website for a school of medicine, its tips on managing small classes are fairly generic and very concise!
  
  
  

  Assessment and feedback 

• Giving feedback, Flinders University, Australia
  This website provides a range of very useful advice on providing feedback to and eliciting feedback from students.
  
  
• E-Teaching @UOW
  This webpage is designed to provide you with the information you require for managing the online teaching technology at UOW. It also provides you with the contacts for assistance.
  The site also includes a netiquette guide for students.
  
  

 UOW Learning and Teaching website

This is your one-stop shop for all policy and related learning and teaching information.
http://www.uow.edu.au/about/teaching/index.html

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All UOW staff are expected to abide by a particular code of conduct: The Code of Conduct (staff) spells out responsibilities in relation to conflicts of interest; close and personal relationships; financial interest; acceptance of gifts or benefits; discrimination or harassment; occupational health and safety; public comment; protecting confidential information; electronic communication and information; use of official facilities or equipment; intellectual property; copyright; reporting on corrupt conduct; The University's approach to complaints; Relevant legislation.

Other policies that will assist you in this area include

• equal employment opportunities
• anti-discrimination
• students with disabilities
• occupational health & safety
• privacy
• copyright
• plagiarism & cheating
• use of Information Technology facilities
• quality assurance

We have included links to some of the policies related to these issues and a complete list of University policies can also be found on our website.

Please familiarise yourself with these as soon as possible.

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PODS Casual Academic Induction

Ongoing employment with UOW is conditional on your participation in a formal induction. PODS offer the Casual Academic Staff Induction several times a year. Their timetable can be found here.

They also offer two online modules:

• Getting Started@UOW
• EOOnline

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