Teaching Awards
Learning and Teaching Award 2005
Eva Segelov (St Vincents' Clinical School) with Leah Bloomfield and Alix Magney
The project team, led by Eva Segelov from St Vincent’s Clinical School, includes Leah Bloomfield (educational adviser) and Alix Magney (project officer). The project is to implement and evaluate the “RIME” clinical assessment and feedback system, which was developed by Hemmer and Pangaro in the Department of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University in the USA. “RIME” refers to the observable elements of the student’s clinical performance: “Reporter” “Interpreter” “Manager” and “Educator”.
Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching Excellence 2004:
Jeffrey Braithwaite, Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health
For these awards, excellence is measured in terms of the student learning experience and outcomes, as well as the lecturer’s scholarly approach to improving their teaching and that of their colleagues. Nomination is by students or other staff. When asked about his teaching Jeffrey had this to say:
I have developed a philosophy centred on continuous improvement – what those in the scholarship of education call professional reflective practice. I have striven to apply this philosophy in my own work, treating teaching as seriously as research and other responsibilities. When it goes right in the classroom and the ideas are buzzing, when students are intellectually grappling deep into the challenges of the course, when a case study or debate goes even better than hoped, when students are productively interacting with me and each other, and concentrating, fully engaged; when they are palpably learning in real time, then and there – that’s when I don’t actually want it to stop.
UNSW Learning and Teaching Award 2004
Professional Education Group
Peter Harris and Sophie di Corpo together with Lauren Arnold and members from the Professional Education Group in the School, Leah Bloomfield, Chris Hughes, Jan McLean, Sue Toohey and Alan Hodgkinson developed a self-directed resource 'How to Review A Course', to guide teachers through the process of reviewing their course/s. This resource provides a systematic process to identify a course’s strengths and those areas requiring improvement, and to guide teachers to suitable resources to enable effective course changes towards the ultimate goal of improving the quality of teaching that students receive.
This resource presents a specific process for course design and review, linking to the Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching. The Resource is also designed to assist teachers to identify and collect evidence of their good teaching practice which may contribute to their Teaching Portfolio.