Academic Professional Development
How can Academic Professional Development help me
The continuing pace of change in higher education means that teaching will always be interesting and will constantly challenge you as a professional. You may be confronted by new learning and teaching experiences which will provide you the opportunity to continue to grow as a life-long learner and in your teaching practice. DSL endeavours to provide support for your journey of growth as a learning and teaching professional.
CSU Common Teaching Standards and Professional Development
There are many approaches to good university teaching. The common teaching standards should inform your teaching practice. Our aim is to provide assistance to you to keep current with activities and resources that develop your skills and approaches to teaching around these particular areas:
- responsiveness to students
- currency of subject content and design
- meeting timelines for learning resource development and for assessment and grading
- assessment alignment with subject objectives and course patterns
- subject and course alignment