Quality Teaching in Higher Education

Participants will learn how to use the Quality Teaching Model to engage in peer review of teaching. After attending a one-hour workshop about the QT Model, participants will be supported to take part in a peer review of teaching experience with a colleague, engaging in detailed analysis and rich discussions of their practice. Participation involves:

• Completion of the online self-paced Discover course on the QT Model (5 hours);
• Attendance at a workshop on how to conduct peer review of teaching (1 hour); and
• Undertaking reciprocal peer review of teaching with a colleague, involving a lesson observation, lesson analysis, and follow-up discussion (repeated for each person).

Given the nature of this professional learning, interested participants should either be teaching in the second half of 2026 and/or have a recorded lesson they could use for the peer review.

2026 workshop dates:

• Face-to-face (Callaghan): 10am-11am, Tuesday 26 May
• Online (via zoom): 2pm-3pm, Tuesday 2 June

Testimonials:

“I benefitted immensely from having someone come and do my peer review from a totally different discipline.”

“I definitely got a deeper understanding of what quality teaching should actually look like. It also helped me to realise that I was inadvertently addressing these areas. …So it has helped me to put a term to what I was actually doing in practice.”

Participants will learn how to use the Quality Teaching Model to evidence and articulate their pedagogical practice for a promotion and/or teaching award application. During a one-hour workshop, participants will be provided with strategies with which to write about their approach to teaching and learning, as well as how to discuss the impact of their teaching on student learning beyond the use of student evaluations. Participation involves:

• Completion of the online self-paced Discover course on the QT Model (5 hours); and
• Attendance at a workshop on how to use the QT Model to write about pedagogy (1 hour).

2026 workshop dates:

• Face-to-face (Callaghan): 3pm-4pm, Tuesday, 19 May
• Online (via zoom): 10am-11am, Wednesday, 3 June

Testimonials: 

“Pretty soon after the workshop – the week after – I was already putting what I learned from that [into practice] and reflecting on the examples that were provided and the exercise we did and putting that directly into my draft application.”

“It has had a massive impact… There has always been this fear in my mind that I was avoiding teaching because I didn't feel I was qualified to teach. So now, this has given me a framework to know this is what good teaching looks like… I think it will have not just an impact on me writing about how I teach, but in actually wanting to teach.”

Participants will be supported to use the Quality Teaching Model to take part in a peer review of assessment with a colleague. Participation involves:

• Completion of the online self-paced Discover course on the QT Model (5 hours); and
• Attendance at a workshop involving assessment task analysis and discussion with a peer (2 hours).

Given the nature of this professional learning, interested participants should have an assessment task they could use for the peer review.

2026 workshop dates:

• Face-to-face (Callaghan): 2pm-4pm, Tuesday 16 June
• Online (via zoom): 10:30am-12.30pm, Monday 22 June

Testimonials:

“I found the most valuable thing I got out of that day was the discussion I had with my partner in the room, and getting the opportunity not only to get their feedback on my assessment but to see an example of theirs… Because I think one of the things we don't do overly well as a university in general, is fostering that sort of collaboration… So these sort of opportunities I think are gold.”