Quality of Curriculum Development
- Select subject contents that reflect the latest developments and thinking in the discipline
- Join with colleagues in designing, implementing, reviewing and improving courses and programs
Communication Skills
- Set clear learning objectives
- Organize course contents clearly, coherently and at a level appropriate to students
- Deliver and explain subject contents clearly and well, with effective use of appropriate teaching media
- Draw on students' life and work experiences in teaching, make the subject relevant to students' career goals, and link theory with professional practice and societal concerns
Promotion of Student Learning
- Demonstrate a strongly student-centered approach to learning
- Develop students' enthusiasm for the subject and help students set challenging goals for their own learning
- Adopt a variety of teaching and learning activities in classes suited to the needs of different students
- Engage students in active discussion and involvement in teaching and learning
- Develop students' analytical and critical thinking skills and provide students with tasks appropriate to the development of these skills
- Provide learning experiences that enable students to develop individual initiative and the skills needed to work cooperatively with peers
- Provide students with opportunities to be involved in the structuring of their own learning experiences
- Make arrangements for consultation, counselling and advising of students
Quality of Student Assessment and Assessment of Student Learning
- Use assessment methods relevant to learning objectives
- Maintain high but appropriate standards and expectations for academic achievement for students, and communicate these clearly to students and auxiliary teaching staff
- Use an appropriate variety of assessment methods
- Give constructive and timely feedback to students, publicly call attention to excellent performance of students and take proactive steps to approach students, particularly those with academic difficulties
- Encourage and enable students to evaluate their own and each other's work critically
Scholarship of Teaching and Innovation in Teaching Methods
- Solicit student feedback on issues of students' concern, and be responsive to this feedback
- Refine teaching practices based on self-assessment and feedback collected from students and peers
- Work with teaching/learning committees, curriculum and other projects that aim to achieve the teaching mission of the Department, School or University and to improve students' learning
- Make constructive contributions to the profession of teaching and to the UST's visibility in quality teaching
Contribution to the Development of Other Teachers
- Provide leadership in faculty development activities
- Provide mentoring to junior faculty members
- Contribute to preparing/developing graduate students for their teaching role
May 2021