This course is not currently offered, please contact the school or faculty of your program.

Course description

Students will be granted RPL credit for this course on the basis of successfully completing Teaching@UQ or Coordinating@UQ module in Workday. Please visit the ITaLI Teaching Foundations Certificate website for further information.

Teaching Foundations explores some of the key components of successful learning and teaching in higher education. The course targets UQ staff new to teaching at UQ, or new to teaching in Higher Education who have a desire to develop a teaching career in Higher Education. This program is designed to ensure that all teachers new to teaching or new to working at UQ have a clear understanding of what constitutes optimal teaching and learning at UQ. The course is designed to help you to kick off your career in teaching at UQ. It allows you to develop skills and knowledge in how to teach and support your students¿ learning and to develop effective learning environments and approaches to student support and guidance. Teaching Foundations is an introductory course, providing the building blocks of successful teaching practice in the higher education sector. It balances theory and practice; introducing you to important theories that underpin how students learn. Assessment tasks in this course enable you to put theory into practice and allows you to build evidence of successful teaching and learning practice in an e-portfolio that you can draw as your teaching career. Please note that this course is not offered and students complete this content via self-paced module in Workday.