Teaching@UQ

The Teaching@UQ program is designed to foster the next generation of great teachers.

The program provides participants with the knowledge and practical skills to build a successful teaching career in higher education. 

Target audience

UQ staff with some teaching responsibilities, including:

• tutoring
• casual academic staff
• casual teaching staff
• research focused staff
• PhD candidates.

If you are a course coordinator, please look to enrol in the Coordinating@UQ program.

Program overview

The program includes 6 workshops. Each workshop involves pre-workshop reading, online activities, and peer to peer feedback.

The program has been designed to enable participants to:

• deepen their understanding of learning, curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment and feedback in a Higher Education context
• develop a critical understanding of their students’ learning and support needs, and to be able to draw on this to find, select and justify approaches for enabling active, effective and inclusive learning
• plan, deliver and critically evaluate teaching, learning, assessment and feedback practices appropriate to both to the discipline and student cohort
• critically appraise their roles and professional values in promoting effective student learning
• develop and reflect on a set of educational goals aligned to UQ’s APD process; and  
• align their practice with the PSF dimensions of practice.

In participating, you will: 

• engage with relevant scholarship and research in higher education
• observe experienced teachers and reflect on their teaching activities with a view to implementing strategies in your own teaching
• be supported in articulating a teaching philosophy
• develop strong peer networks
• network with UQ teaching champions who will act as your mentors; and
• develop knowledge and skills to advance in your future teaching career.

Program offerings

The Teaching@UQ program is free to UQ staff and is generally offered 3 times a year. Enrolments are capped at 50 participants. Confirmation of each offering is dependent on sufficient enrolment numbers.

Semester 2 2024

Time commitment

Participants engage with 6 modules which are supported by a workshop series and supplemented with independently completed learning activities.

In attending all workshops and completing all the learning activities outlined in the program timetable, you can expect to need to commit between 2 and 6 hours per week on the program. The program team recommends that you set aside 10 hours per week to complete preparatory work, independent study and assignments.

If you have planned long overseas absences or are in the final stages of thesis write-up, it's not recommended that you complete the program.

To successfully complete the program you must participate in all learning activities, and submit these learning activities by their set deadlines. After you've completed the Teaching@UQ program you will be invited to participate in the Teaching Foundations Certificate to consolidate your learning and gain recognition as an Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

The Teaching Foundations Certificate requires participation in an additional face-to-face learning module and the submission of an e-portfolio for assessment.

How to register

Register for the program by 5pm 26 July 2024 for the Semester 2 program. Late registrations will not be accepted.

Eligibility criteria

Applicants should meet the following criteria:

• Be a university graduate with a minimum of a Bachelor or a Bachelor (Hons) degree.
• Be a UQ staff member with a teaching/learning support role. This could take the form of research higher degree supervision, clinical supervision, tutoring, lab demonstration, peer assisted study session leading, learning designing, or student learning advising.
• Can attend all workshops and participate in all the learning activities outlined in the program timetable.
• Have approximately 10 hours per week to complete preparatory work, independent study and assignments (e.g., no long overseas absences; not in the final stages of thesis write-up, in case of PhD students); and
• Have support from your line manager and a course coordinator.

If you do not meet all eligibility criteria, your application may not be approved.

Enquiries

If you have any questions regarding your suitability or any other aspects of your application, please email professional.learning@uq.edu.au or register for a 1:1 consultation.