A mature Teaching Community is:
A complete group of staff involved in teaching a particular subject, supporting each other to:
- Share experiences of teaching, both good and bad
- Identify concerns about students’ learning
- Identify concepts that are of particular difficulty and develop specific strategies to assist learning
- Try new teaching procedures that may involve a degree of risk taking, or that require new skills
- Use teaching and assessment practices that encourage students to communicate and form Learning Communities.
- Integrate lecture, tutorial and laboratory programs to provide flexibility and reinforcement of key ideas.
- Ensure the content of a subject has internal coherence, and relevance to the practice of the profession
- Identify and foster the acquisition of generic skills appropriate to the profession of engineering
- Develop a culture of engaging in action research of one’s own teaching practice, and writing about it
- Promote the scholarship of teaching as an active part of an academic’s role
- Celebrate members’ professional growth
- Apply for funding to set up educational research and development programs
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