Professional development program

2009 Professional Development Program

LTSU annually hosts a suite of professional development opportunities designed to support the enhancement of learning and teaching at USQ.

Access to these opportunities is available to all staff unless otherwise stated. Registration for these events is via the Virtual Training Mangement Site (VTME) via the USQStudyDesk. Staff are encouraged to register to ensure that their attendance is logged as attending an academic professional development activity and to assist with any necessary catering requirements or room allocation.

Toowoomba Campus

2009 program timetable

Peer Learning
2-3 February	Bill Johnston, Assistant Director of the Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement, University of Strathclyde
2-6 February	Learning and Teaching Week
19 February	Induction workshop
11 March 30 April	Embedding academic skills
25 March	Using Wimba Classroom to support learning, teaching, research and meetings
1 April	Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Research
21 & 24 April	Course Quality Review (for nominated courses only)
29 April	Leadership capacity building through Fellowships
30 April 13 May	Faculty Awards 101 (Faculty of Education) Faculty Awards 101 (Faculty of Sciences)
6 May	Assessing for employability: exploring the continuum between authentic assessment and work integrated learning
18-29 May	Glynis Cousin, Director of the Institute for Learning Enhancement and the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Wolverhampton
14 July	Induction workshop
27 July-4 August	Professor Jonathan Garnett, Director of Institute for Work Based learning at Hendon campus, Middlesex University, UK.
3-5 August	Associate Professor Carmela Briguglio, Manger, CBS Communication Skills Centre, Curtin Universtiy, WA.
19 August	Peer learning - Meet-Up Information session
7 October - Fraser Coast 8 October - Springfield	Course & Program Review - Information session
13 October - Toowoomba 14 October - Fraser Coast 15 October - Springfield	Effective Feedback: Using Feedback as a Tool for Student Learning
Day 1, 2 November	SoTTL - Scholarship of Tertiary Teaching and Learning with visiting scholar Dr Fred Lockwood, Emeritus Professor of Learning and Teaching, Manchester Metropolitan University
Day 2, 17 November	SoTTL - Scholarship of Tertiary Teaching and Learning revisited
26 November	Dr Tania Aspland, Professor in Teacher Education, University of Adelaide