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Teaching Foundations Certificate

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If you've completed the Teaching@UQ or Coordinating@UQ programs, you will be invited to participate in the Teaching Foundations Certificate.

By completing the Certificate, you will become an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Target audience

UQ staff who have completed the Teaching@UQ or Coordinating@UQ program.

Program overview

On successful completion of either Teaching@UQ or Coordinating@UQ, you will be invited to participate in an additional face-to-face module that introduces you to the assessment task, the e-portfolio tool and other participants. There is no cost to complete the Certificate. 

In the Teaching Foundations Certificate you will build a body of evidence that includes:

  • a knowledge base in curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy combined with insight into the UQ policy context, educational technologies, and teaching support available
  • a strong evidence-base to support your future career aspirations including as a peer observation report, samples of student evaluation, and a portfolio of lesson plans, innovative teaching practices and learning resources
  • a teaching philosophy statement or teaching plan demonstrating how you creatively connect curriculum, assessment and pedagogy to foster active participation and learning in your disciplinary and teaching context; and
  • a set of teaching goals with associated activities and indicators to evidence progress of educational goals that align with the UQ APD annual process.

Learning activities

You will compile an e-portfolio comprising of 3 tasks focusing on different areas of your learning and teaching practice. These tasks incorporate some of the formative assessment tasks developed through Teaching@UQ or Coordinating@UQ, and include:

  • a teaching context and philosophy statement
  • peer observation
  • a critical reflection on practice.

You must pass each element to successfully pass the program and gain Associate Fellowship credentials.

Credentials

Accredited by Advance HE, the Teaching Foundations Certificate demonstrates you meet the requirements for Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, entitling you to use the post-nominals AFHEA. This credential demonstrates that you:

  • critically evaluate teaching and learning approaches that support student engagement 
  • engage in effective and inclusive teaching practices
  • critically reflect on choices related to inclusive learning design and teaching practice in the disciplinary context
  • critically reflect on how their teaching and/or supporting learning practice has been enhanced through engagement with professional learning.

On successful completion of the Certificate, you will be able to join the HEA@UQ community and over 190,000 colleagues world-wide who have Fellowship status.

Program offerings

The module is offered multiple times per year. Confirmation of each offering is dependent on sufficient enrolment numbers.

How to register

Register your interest so we can inform you when the next series has been scheduled.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible for the Teaching Foundations Certificate, you must:

  • be a UQ employee
  • have a teaching position or appointment that supports learning confirmed, with approximately 20 contact hours across a whole semester. This appointment could be in a casual or continuing, full-time or part-time, academic or professional capacity
  • have completed either Teaching@UQ or Coordinating@UQ