[Foundations] Books used for staff induction/Foundations ofUniversity Teaching

[Gail Wilson]

Hi Tilly

I would recommend Maureen Bell's Herdsa Guide on Peer Observation
Partnerships (2005) if you are using peer review of teaching as a
framework for your induction program.

This year I moved away from a core text (such as Biggs & Tang, 2007),
have been highly selective about articles and excerpts from texts that
we use, and thus have pared down considerably the amount of resources we
provide for participants. We offered only three articles per topic, and
made those articles the focus of the learning activities for that
session. This approach has been well received by our Foundations
participants, and I found it more satisfying from a facilitator's
perspective too. It seemed to better facilitate discussions about issues
and concepts within that literature, and they were not overwhelmed.

The Resources sub project group of the ALTC Preparing Academic Teachers
in Higher Education (PATHE) project will be identifying resources for
Foundations programs as we indicated at the recent JCU event.

Regards
Gail
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Dr. Gail Wilson
Associate Professor Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 
Manager Teaching & Learning Services
Bond University 

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ofUniversity Teaching

Hi all

We're on the hunt for a replacement academic staff induction text/s.
For several years, new USC staff have received copies of Murphy E. 1998,
Lecturing at University, CEA Publications, Curtin University. (new
teaching staff) and Bertola, P. & Murphy, E., 1994, Tutoring at
University, CEA Publications, Curtin University. (new teaching staff and
sessionals).  These are no longer in print.

I'd be thankful for responses as to what text/s you use/recommend.  I'll
compile a summary of responses at the end of October and circulate back
to the lists.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers
Tilly

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