Enhancing Teaching@UTS Program | 7 March – 4 April 2025

Enhancing Teaching@UTS is a program for all UTS academics. It aims to support you to develop the understanding, capability, and confidence to teach subjects drawing on good practice principles aligned to the UTS distinctive approach. As well as encouraging innovative teaching with a strong focus on student learning and the student experience, the program also aims to connect you with resources and community across disciplines and the Education Portfolio to promote ongoing support and collaboration.

What can you expect from this program?

This is a 5-week online program consisting of five 1.5-hour, weekly online workshops in the Autumn 2025 teaching session (weeks 3 – 7). You will also be invited to join a Canvas site to connect and collaborate with each other.

Over the 5 weeks of this program, you will:

• Reflect on the opportunities and challenges within your teaching context and identify areas of inquiry that interest you.
• Consider the alignment between your teaching practice, the key elements of effective and inclusive teaching, and the UTS distinctive approach.
• Apply design principles to the development and teaching of your subjects to enhance student learning.
• Enhance your feedback and assessment strategies to promote student success.
• Explore tools and methods to engage students using technology.
• Develop strategies for evaluating and reflecting on your practice.

When are the online workshops?

The 5 online workshops in this program are:

• 1. You, Your Context, Your Learners – 7 March, 12:30 – 2:00pm
  2. Designing for Learning – 14 March, 12:30 – 2:00pm
  3. Engaging Students Using Technology – 21 March, 12:30 – 2:00pm
  4. Feedback and Assessment – 28 March, 12:30 – 2:00pm
  5. Reflective Practice and Next Steps – 4 April, 12.30 – 2.00pm

Who will be facilitating this program?

This program is facilitated by the Education Portfolio and your facilitators include:

• Dr Amanda Lizier, Senior Lecturer, Teaching, Learning and Curriculum (Program Lead)
• Dr Alisa Percy, Senior Lecturer, Teaching, Learning and Curriculum
• Gemma O’Donoghue, Lecturer, Academic Language and Learning
• Ann Wilson, Senior Curriculum Designer, Teaching, Learning and Curriculum
• Mais Fatayer, Manager LX Design, Learning Design and Technology Unit

Enquiries

Have a question about the program?  Email ed.connect@uts.edu.au 

Register for this event

Your video, audio and the meeting chat transcript may be recorded or photographed. Please advise the facilitator if you do not wish to be recorded or photographed.

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