Showcasing Teaching Excellence

Stepping stones to

teaching and learning

success

Project Team:Vicky MabinJames RichardHeike SchänzelRobyn MooreMarina Dobrovolskaya

Showcasing Teaching Excellence

Goals – To recognise

good teaching and raise

teaching standards

across the FCA

Idea – To develop a One-

Stop teaching and

learning resource for our

commerce teachers

Accessible Collection

– Strategies, ideas and

insights from our people

Background

Interviews conducted

with teachers from FCA

between July and

November, 2010.

Focus – on teaching

context, goals, process,

strategies, challenges,

outcomes, and big

lessons.

What we did

VoicesListening to the

voices of some of

our best teachers

Successful teaching and learning – Key Themes

Successful

teaching is a

matter of attitude

and energy rather

than a specific

teaching style

– FCA teacher http

://www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/successful-teaching-learning.aspx

Teachers bring different personalities that lead to individual teaching stylesA positive attitude towards teaching and class interaction is a mustSuccessful teaching requires a level of physicality and involvementSuccessful teaching requires a high level of organisation and preparationStudents need relevant, 'real world' learning

Tools

Teachers in action

http://

www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/video-clips.aspxHow learning works – teaching

smart

http://

www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/how-learning-works.aspx

Teacher self-audit

http://

www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/teaching-audit.aspx

Project Resources

http://

www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/project-resources.aspx

Inside

To Deputy Vice-Chancellor

(Academic) Professor Penny

Boumelha for support and funding,

through a VUW Learning and

Teaching Fund 2010 grant.

To Assistant Vice-Chancellor

(Academic) Associate Professor

David Crabbe,

Dr Stephen Marshall (Acting Director,

UTDC) and Dr Kathryn Sutherland

(UTDC/FHSS), for support and advice.

To our FCA colleagues.

Visit Teaching Matters at http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/

We value your continued feedback.

Thank you