Leading Teaching and Learning for Course and Topic Coordinators: Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships

Course description

Great courses don't happen by accident or in isolation - they are the collective and deliberate effort of a team of staff.  Most topics have multiple teachers and courses are delivered by a team of Topic Coordinators.  This means that Course and Topic Coordinators occupy informal leadership positions within the University.  This initial workshop examines the roles of Course and Topic Coordinators.

Participants may do workshop 1 only but will be encouraged to continue on to a further 3 sessions which are only available to those who have completed this training.

These workshops set staff on the path to developing their leadership and management skills to deliver good teaching; investigates how to liaise, collaborate and network with stakeholders to support student learning; and encourages staff to reflect on their developing leadership skills.

Workshop 1: Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in Teaching and Learning at Flinders

Workshop 2: Developing Academic Leadership for Course and Topic Development and Delivery

Workshop 3: Liaising, Collaborating and Networking to Support Student Learning

Workshop 4: Valuing Quality in Teaching: Summing Up and Leading On

The predicted workload is four workshops plus a small, focused project over 4 months.  To enrol in the extra three workshops and thereby complete the series and fully develop your skills, please follow this link - https://www.flinders.edu.au/staffdev/index.php/course/ADT

Type of course

Workshop

Presenters

Who should attend

Current Course and Topic Coordinators

What you will learn

Workshop 1:

• Teaching and learning leadership roles within Flinders University.

Workshop 2:

You will:

• develop a small, focused Action Plan related to the Course/Topic you coordinate;
• identify the skills needed to deliver the outcomes of your Action Plan and strategies for developing those skills.

Workshop 3:

• Interpersonal and teamwork skills to engender productive working relationships to support student learning.

Workshop 4:

• Reflective practice skills around leading teaching and learning;
• Other learning outcomes to be suggested by the participants prior to the workshop.

Prerequisites / assumed knowledge

Workshop 1:

• None

Workshop 2:

• Leading Teaching and Learning for Course and Topic Coordinators Workshop 1: Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in Teaching and Learning at Flinders.

Workshop 3:

• Leading Teaching and Learning for Course and Topic Coordinators Workshop 2: Developing Academic Leadership for Course and Topic Development and Delivery.

Workshop 4:

• Leading Teaching and Learning for Course and Topic Coordinators Workshop 3: Liaising, Collaborating and Networking to Support Student Learning