Teaching and Learning Committee

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TEACHING AND LEARNING COMMITTEE

2014 Teaching Fellowship Scheme

(in accordance with Teaching and Learning Committee Resolution 28/10)

http://www.teachingandlearning.uwa.edu.au/tl4/for_uwa_staff/grants_and_funding/teaching_fellowship_scheme

Introduction

The Teaching and Learning Committee’s Teaching Fellowship Scheme was introduced in 2005 and currently offers up to four Fellowships across the University on an annual basis. In 2014 these Fellowships are valued at $22,000. It is intended that this scheme focus on the teaching and learning priority areas contained within the UWA Education Future’s Vision Statement. For 2014 the priority area will be:

·  Transformative teaching, focusing upon one or a combination of the following:

o  first year units

o  postgraduate coursework units

o  using technology

o  integrating research.

(Full reference to the UWA Education Futures Vision Statement is available from http://www.education-futures.uwa.edu.au/home/)

The Scheme has been designed to support innovative, reasonably short-term projects given the six month timeframe of the Fellowships and to encourage projects that impact or could be adopted beyond the individual School/Administrative Section.

As well as providing an opportunity for the development of individual Fellows’ teaching portfolios, the Scheme will provide a simple, targeted way of making progress against the University’s education priorities. It will do this by allowing different faculties, schools, disciplines and administrative sections to support these priorities in locally relevant and valuable ways.

The award of up to four Fellowships each year, across the University, will also create greater awareness of the University’s priorities, bring greater understanding about each priority, and increase awareness about effective strategies for their achievement.

Publication of the research undertaken by Fellows in national or international journals will provide a tangible outcome that contributes to the broader dissemination of the projects’ outcomes.

GUIDELINES

1.  There are three elements to a Teaching Fellowship:

a.  research into and discipline-based development of the identified education priorities;

b.  conduct and implementation of a teaching and learning project; and

c.  dissemination of the results of the research and project, including a University-wide presentation and provision of an article prepared for publication in a refereed national or international journal.

Activities that would normally be expected to be undertaken as a matter of course within a School or Section (eg. Response to a school review, formulation or adjustment of core curriculum) will not be supported by this Scheme.

2.  Up to four Teaching Fellowships will be offered each year, with successful applicants undertaking their Fellowship in either second semester of the current year or first semester of the following year, as appropriate to the applicant and their Head of School/Head of Administrative Section. Any study leave or long service leave proposed during the term of the Fellowship must be included in the timeline. Applications outside this timeline will be deemed ineligible.

3.  Each Fellowship is worth $22,000. This amount comprises $20,000 for the Fellowship and an incentive component of $2,000 (to be paid into a UWA account) to be used at the Fellow’s discretion to enhance and support the Fellow’s career development while they remain a staff member at UWA.

Upon acceptance of a Fellowship, funding will be allocated as follows:

·  $10,000 provided to the relevant School/Administrative Section at the commencement of the Fellowship;

·  $10,000 provided to the relevant School/Administrative Section plus $2,000 for use at the Fellow’s discretion upon provision of:

o  A final report, including a detailed budget expenditure statement;

o  Draft of proposed article prepared for publication in a refereed national or international journal;

o  Confirmation that a University-wide presentation on the research and project has taken place during the Fellowship (e.g. Teaching and Learning Month, Teaching and Learning Forum).

$20,000 provided to the relevant School/Administrative Section must only be used to support the Fellow with the provision of relief of individual teaching and/or associated responsibilities for the semester and any ongoing support associated with the teaching and learning project. Where a Fellowship is awarded to a member of academic staff, it is envisaged that the Fellow will continue to supervise any postgraduate research students.

4.  Support in excess of $22,000 should be borne by the School or Administrative Section, any unspent funds on finalisation of the Fellowship should be returned to, or will be retained by, the Teaching and Learning Committee.

5.  Fellowship application is open to academic and professional staff on the UWA payroll who are currently engaged in teaching or who may be providing various aspects of professional support and/or training which is focused on improving the student learning experience. Fellowship application is open to staff employed on a 0.5FTE appointment or above and for a period which extends beyond the proposed timeline of the intended Fellowship. Any change in the staff holding a fellowship must be referred with the Dean’s endorsement to the Grants and Schemes Standing Committee for approval.

6.  A Fellowship may be offered to up to two staff members working in collaboration.

7.  Fellows will remain within their Faculty or Administrative Section for the duration of their Fellowship, and enjoy the usual level of infrastructure and administrative support afforded to them in their normal roles.

8.  Fellows will be invited, at the commencement of their Fellowship, to meet with the Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning to

·  Finalise the proposed teaching and learning project, including consideration of any feedback from the Grants and Schemes Committee;

·  Consider and select an appropriate mentor for the Fellowship;

·  Organise an appropriate University-wide presentation on the research and project as part of the Fellowship;

·  Consider appropriate networks to support the Fellowship.

Fellows may also draw on relevant expertise in the planning, execution and evaluation of their teaching and learning project through avenues of support such as CATL.

9.  Fellows are eligible to apply for another Fellowship 3 years after the completion of their first Fellowship.

A Fellow whose final report is outstanding from the first Scheme would be deemed ineligible to apply in the current round.

10.  The normal time-span of a Fellowship is six months; however, under exceptional circumstances (i.e. a project of demonstrable value whose scope has grown in the course of the Fellowship) consideration for additional financial support, up to the value of $5,000, will be given to its extension upon application to the Chair of the Grants and Schemes Standing Committee.

11.  A final report (1 – 2 pages), endorsed by the Head of School and Dean of Faculty, or for professional staff, by the Head of Section and Executive Director, must be submitted to Sally Jackson at , Academic Policy Services (M456A) within six months of completion of the Fellowship. The report should address each of the three Fellowship elements detailing the outcomes achieved, and the overall benefits to the School and Faculty, or Section. The final report should include a detailed budget expenditure statement and a copy of the article prepared for publication should also be attached. A report template will be available on the web at http://www.teachingandlearning.uwa.edu.au/staff/funding/fellowship.

APPLICATION PROCESS

1. The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning will hold an information session on Wednesday 21st May, 2pm-4pm for members of staff interested in applying for a Fellowship. Prospective Fellows are strongly encouraged to attend, please register at: http://www.catl.uwa.edu.au/pd/workshops/career/fellowship

2. Applications should be submitted on the Teaching Fellowship Scheme Application form provided at: http://www.teachingandlearning.uwa.edu.au/staffnet/funding/fellowship and address the following three elements of the Fellowship:

a.  Research – proposed research on one or more of the education priorities listed below:

Transformative teaching, focusing upon one or a combination of the following:

o  first year units

o  postgraduate coursework units

o  using technology

o  integrating research

and the development of that priority(ies) in an academic's field of study (and possibly cognate fields of study nationally and/or internationally);

b.  Project - devise and conduct a project related to the nominated priority(ies) within the applicant's School, Faculty or Administrative Section, with a view to embedding that priority(ies) on a more concrete basis in the period after expiration of the six month Fellowship. The project should include ongoing discussion with colleagues in the specific area to ensure its relevance and to provide a source of feedback to the Fellow while the work is in train, as well as discussion with other Fellows across the University to benefit from cross-disciplinary insights and to promote collaboration;

c.  Dissemination – proposed dissemination of the results of the research and project both within the Faculty/Section and University (via, for example, seminars, and the publication of project descriptions and results on the UWA website). In addition, confirmation must be provided by applicants that a University-wide presentation will occur during the term of the Fellowship and an article will be prepared for publication in a refereed national or international journal of teaching and learning, to be submitted to the relevant journal within six months following completion of the Fellowship.

3.  Applications require the written support of the relevant Head of School and Faculty Dean, or Head of Section with confirmation that the proposal is linked to the School’s/Faculty’s/Section’s operational priorities plan. Applications submitted without the appropriate written support will be deemed ineligible.

In all cases the Head of School/Head of Administrative Section is required to provide a supporting statement confirming that the outcomes of the project will be met within the required timeline.

For applicants who do not have ongoing appointments, the Head of School or Head of Section is required to confirm that the applicant’s term of contract exceeds the term of the six month Fellowship and guaranteeing that the outcomes from the Fellowship following its completion will be appropriately embedded and disseminated within the following six months.

4.  Applications require a budget proposal detailing proposed expenditure of the $20,000 Fellowship.

5.  Applications should not be ranked by the School, Faculty or Administrative Section.

Applications will be considered, on merit, by the Grants and Schemes Standing Committee, a sub-Committee of the Teaching and Learning Committee

The broad administration of the Scheme will be overseen by Academic Policy Services. The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) will provide resources and advice to Fellows in support of the three elements of the Scheme.

Any queries should be referred to Sally Jackson, Academic Policy Services, 6488 7551

6.  Feedback will be offered upon request to unsuccessful applicants.

Electronic Application Process

How to complete and submit an application;

1. Application form

The electronic application form is available from http://www.teachingandlearning.uwa.edu.au/staffnet/funding/fellowship

2. Completing the application form

·  Open the form and save to a local server or pc

·  Note: If the form has opened in ‘Reading Layout’ – click the Close button located on the tool bar

·  To complete a ‘Check Box’ – click on the box. If necessary click again to remove the ‘check’

·  Text can be added in the spaces provided by typing in the shaded area. This shaded area will expand as text is entered until it reaches the maximum characters allowed

·  Text can also be ‘Cut & Pasted’ into the shaded area

·  Text can be edited freely

3. Obtaining signatures and emailing the application

·  Complete all requisite information on the form

·  Print a hard copy

·  Applicant(s), Head of School/ Head of Section and Faculty Manager/ Executive Director to sign as required

·  Scan completed application form and return to , no later than midday on Wednesday 18th June 2014.

Sally Jackson

Executive Officer

Grants and Schemes Standing Committee

14 May 2014