Learning & Teaching Scholarship in Higher Education: Adept
Here are some ideas to guide your progress through the Learning and Teaching Scholarship domain of the Professional Learning and Capability Enhancement (PLaCE) Framework:
- Plan, undertake and evaluate a SoTL project
- Evidence your achievements in teaching
- Align your teaching and research
Extend your knowledge of Learning & Teaching Scholarship:
| Explore: | Carry out a SoTL project. This website will guide you through the steps involved in carrying out a SoTL project. |
| Write: | Start planning your first SoTL project with these ideas for methodology and approaches. (TECHE post). |
| Collect: | Evidence your teaching achievements. This TECHE post considers sources of evidence you can use to start collecting, tagging and organising evidence of your university teaching achievements. |
| Read: | Research Enhanced Learning and Teaching. This MQ resource considers how you can use research results in teaching and develop students’ own research capabilities. (20-page PDF) |
| Support: | Encourage and support your undergraduate students to undertake research. Check out the Australian Council for Undergraduate Research (ACUR) website for support, networking opportunities and resources. |
| Enrol: | The Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC has a module on Scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching. |
Take it to the next level: Share your SoTL project
| Share: | Share your SoTL project with others – present at a Department/Faculty meeting or the Teaching & Leadership Community of Practice. Write about it for TECHE (MQ’s learning & Teaching blog). |
| Publish: | Discover what makes a quality SoTL publication – what to do, what not to do when publishing L&T papers. (TECHE post) |
If you would like support to create a personalised professional development plan to enhance your teaching capability, please contact professional.learning@mq.edu.au