What counts as evidence of good teaching?

Intended Audience:

This session is for all academic and sessional teaching staff at UWA, particularly those constructing teaching portfolios or teaching award submissions.

Workshop Description:

The strength of a teaching portfolio or award submission often rests on the quality of evidence provided to support it. This session will examine what constitutes robust evidence. It is a good follow-up to 'Developing your Teaching Portfolio'.

Intended Outcomes:

At the end of the session, you will:

• better understand the importance of evidence within your teaching portfolio or award submission.
• know the different types of evidence you should provide.
• be aware of the appropriate issues of confidentiality involved in using certain types of evidence.
• be familiar with the best ways to present your evidence.

Key Activities:

• group and paired discussions
• examination of exemplars

Duration:

3 hours

Date and Time:

• Wednesday 4 March 2009, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
• Wednesday 12 August 2009, 1.00pm - 4.00pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Love House, 28 Broadway, Crawley (Cnr of Cooper Street)

Facilitator:

Prof Denise Chalmers,  Director, Centre for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning, UWA