Teaching Foundations: Teaching@UQ Stream

Teaching Foundations supports you in creatively connecting curriculum, pedagogy and assessment to foster active student participation and learning. This introductory course helps you build essential teaching skills, create supportive learning environments, and enhance student engagement. It balances theory and practice, exploring foundational learning theories while providing opportunities to apply them. 

Offered as a professional learning activity, Teaching Foundations is available in multiple streams to reflect the diversity of UQ’s teaching and learning community, including: 

• Teaching@UQ – for new lecturers with no course coordination responsibilities, tutors, lab demonstrators and seminar leaders.
• Coordinating@UQ – for new teachers who also have course coordination responsibilities.
• Teaching Foundations RPL module – for experienced teachers with substantial teaching experience who wish to engage with the Graduate Certificate in University Teaching Practice.
• CaPE@UQ (commencing Semester 2, 2025) – for new Clinical and Practice Educators.
• LD@UQ (commencing in 2026) – for new Learning Designers.

UQ staff with some teaching responsibilities, including:

• tutors
• lecturers  
• casual academic staff 
• academic title holders  
• research focused staff seeking out teaching opportunities  
• Post-doctoral and research fellows at Levels A-B 
• PhD candidates
• learning advisors 
• Learning designers 

If you are a course coordinator and new to teaching or new to UQ, please look to enrol in the Coordinating@UQ stream. If you are clinical educator or placement supervisor, please look to enrol in the CaPE@UQ stream. 

Teaching@UQ provides you with the knowledge and practical skills to build a successful teaching career in higher education. This course builds your knowledge of the fundamental principles of effective teaching for learning in higher education relevant to your teaching contexts.  

Teaching@UQ is taught via face-to-face workshops (conducted in-person or online), pre-workshop reading, online activities, and peer-to-peer feedback. The course is free to UQ staff.

Learning outcomes  

After successfully completing Teaching@UQ, you should be able to:   

1. Critically evaluate teaching and learning approaches that support student engagement;  
2. Demonstrate effective and inclusive teaching practices;  
3. Critically reflect on choices related to inclusive learning design and teaching practice in the disciplinary context.  
4. Critically reflect on how teaching and/or supporting learning practice has been enhanced through engagement with professional learning.  

Teaching@UQ is generally offered 3 times a year – Summer Semester (Intensive), Semester 1 and Semester 2. Enrolments are capped at 40 participants per offering. Confirmation of each offering is dependent on sufficient enrolment numbers.

Semester 2, 2025

Schedule

Assessment

In addition to all workshops and completing all the learning activities outlined in the course schedule, it is recommended 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 is recommended that you complete Teaching@UQ at another time.

Upon successful completion, you will: 

• Be awarded the Teaching Foundations Certificate. 

• Become an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), a mark of professional recognition that enhances your teaching career globally. 

• Join a community of over 190,000 educators worldwide who hold Fellowship status with Advance HE. 

• Be invited to apply for enrolment in the Graduate Certificate in University Teaching Practice (eligibility criteria apply). 

Teaching@UQ has been developed in the context of UQ’s policies and the Academic Annual Performance Development (APD) process, so will also support you to develop your career in higher education. 

Successful completion of Teaching@UQ involves active participation in online activities, undertaking workshops (with peer feedback) and passing summative assessment tasks. 

Your pathway to the Graduate Certificate in University Teaching Practice 

Participants who meet the eligibility criteria and have successfully completed Teaching@UQ will be invited to apply for enrolment in the Graduate Certificate in University Teaching Practice. 

You will receive credit for Teaching Foundations (EDHE6001), the first course in the Graduate Certificate, and be on your way to earning the full qualification. 

Applicants should meet the following criteria: 

• Hold a minimum of an Undergraduate degree from any Institution. 
• 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 course schedule. 
• 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. 

Apply for the Semester 2 offering by 11 July 2025. Please note that places are limited and applying does not guarantee participation. Late applications will not be accepted. 

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.