Celebrating our teachers
With
a strong new focus on teaching and improving teaching outcomes
across the University there has also been some real attention given
to acknowledging UniSA’s great teachers.
For the first time UniSA held a special luncheon to celebrate teaching excellence and honour the winners of Carrick Awards and a new suite of UniSA’s own teaching awards and citations.
About 150 attended the luncheon in November which included UniSA Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Høj, Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Lee and visiting Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at Oxford Brookes University, Alan Jenkins.
Winners of the eight Carrick citations for UniSA attended and there was a special screening of interviews with them about their approach to teaching and learning.
Prof Høj announced the recipients of the UniSA Awards for Teaching Excellence – David Badenoch (Education), Sue Gilbert-Hunt (Health Sciences) and Dr Ioana Petrescu (Communications).
From Health Sciences, Dr Sara Jones, Helen Banwell and Ryan Causby received the UniSA Enhancing Learning Award and 13 academics from all four divisions were given UniSA citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
A further 53 UniSA Quality Teaching Awards were presented.
The winners received between $1500 and $5000 to spend on activities designed to further enhance their development as great teachers.
Congratulating the winners, Vice Chancellor Prof Høj said he believed good teaching was at the heart of every successful University.
"It is our teachers who are responsible for developing high quality professionals with integrity, vision and the drive to contribute to society in a positive and creative way," he said.
"Good quality undergraduate teaching is also the engine room of a successful research culture."