EDUC6901
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
Delivering high quality teaching is critical to the student experience at university. This course provides a conceptual and practical introduction to quality teaching, grounded in evidence of positive effects for teachers and students. By addressing core aspects of quality teaching, students are guided in how to enrich their teaching, course design, and assessment.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Online
- Semester 1 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Formulate and explain their ideas about quality teaching in higher education.
2. Design and use relevant strategies to achieve high levels of intellectual quality in teaching and learning.
3. Design and use relevant strategies to achieve quality learning environments.
4. Design and use relevant strategies to ensure teaching and learning are meaningful to students.
5. Analyse, discuss and refine teaching and learning using the language and structure of the Quality Teaching Model.
Content
Topics will include:
- How ‘teaching quality’ is understood and addressed in Australian higher education
- Critical analysis of pedagogy and andragogy
- An introduction to the Quality Teaching Model as a relevant framework for university teaching
- Ensuring Intellectual Quality through pedagogy focused on deep understanding of important ideas
- Ensuring Quality Learning Environments that are productive for student learning
- Ensuring Significance by connecting teaching and learning to students’ lives and the wider world, as well as through valuing the knowledge, skills and understandings of diverse social groups
- Using the Quality Teaching Model to guide course and lesson design, and assessment tasks
- Using the Quality Teaching Model for the analysis of practice and building capacity in teaching teams
Assessment items
Professional Task: Using the Quality Teaching Model
Proposal / Plan: Analysis of practice
Proposal / Plan: Final course reflection
Contact hours
Semester 1 - 2024 - Online
Lectorial-1
- Online 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Online 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Course outline
- EDUC6901 - Semester 1, 2024 (All) (PDF, 207.7 KB)
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.