Welcome to our faculty's new Teaching & Learning Unit lead by Alexandra Ludewig. We'd like to introduce the team of Tracy Dunne, Emma Matson and Nicole Crawford. We're excited about the following initiatives/sites that we have running in 2008:

NEWS

FACULTY TEACHING AND SERVICE AWARDS

The Faculty Teaching Awards seek to reward teaching excellence and are open to academic staff, teams or individuals in the areas of Teaching, Research Supervision and Projects that Enhance Learning.

Nominations are anonymous and can be made by a student, a peer or you can self nominate by going to the online form. Guidelines and submission information is also available at the following web link:

FTA ONLINE NOMINATION FORM

The Service Awards honour the contributions of professional and academic staff in all under-recognised aspects of working life. The Faculty has two Service Awards which recognise contributions to the areas of outreach, collaboration, and collegiality:

Outstanding Service to Teaching and Learning
Outstanding Service to the University and/or the Broader Community

SERVICE AWARDS ONLINE NOMINATION FORM

WINNERS: COMPETITIVE GRANT SCHEME

Thank you for your interest in the Competitive Grant Scheme. The applications were varied, fascinating and of a very high standard, and we hope to run a similar scheme in 2009! The WINNERS are ...

PEER REFLECTION REFLECTION

Teaming up for Peer Reflection is a free professional development opportunity for all teaching staff. Through exposure to different methods of teaching and gaining feedback on their own practice, the initiative aims to improve the individuals perception of their own pedagogy. For further information please click on the article that was featured in the May issue of UWA News.

If you would like to view the workshop on Peer Reflection please click on the following link: Peer Reflection Workshop

SPEED DATING WITH A COMPETITIVE GRANT SCHEME

Speed Dating Partcipants

Lee Partridge came up with this wonderful concept on how to exchange ideas and encourage collaboration within the shortest period of time. There were 8 participants and each spent 3.5 minutes talking to each other about their ideas and particular areas of interest. It was an interesting exercise and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves (and maybe even secured a date for the PROM!). SPEED DATING might be the way of future brainstorming!