UniSA teachers star
UniSA has for the first time been awarded more than $1.54 million under the Australian Teaching and Learning Fund Grants. The win marks a huge turnaround for the University in acknowledgement of improved teaching practice.
Successes in the past two years at the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, including a major award for teaching excellence in 2008, were the first big milestones in the lead up to this announcement.
Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Lee said the success quite clearly represented many hours of dedication and self assessment and a real willingness by the teaching staff at UniSA to engage in improvement practices.
"It highlights our academics as people who are dedicated to their profession and willing to take on the challenges of a changing education environment with innovative determination," Prof Lee said.
"Feedback from academics preparing for the Teaching and Learning Awards has been very positive - they have found that in carving out time to examine how and why they teach, they have discovered a new energy and passion for this core aspect of their work."
He said the outcome was fantastic for UniSA’s academic teachers and the whole institution.
More information is available on the DEEWR website.