Educational Change: Cultures

• Bureaucratic approach– Carrick/Australian Learning & Teaching

Council– Identify excellence– Reward– And then?

Educational Change: Cultures

• Business/corporate culture–3M National Teaching Fellows

(Canada)• Identify the “best”

• Bring them together

• Let “it” happen

3M National Teaching Fellowship

• Started in 1986

• 10 a year (Max) out of 34K eligible

• 3 day “retreat”

• Chateau Montebello

Chateau Montebello (1)

Chateau Montebello (2)

3M Criteria

• excellence in teaching over a number of years, principally (but not exclusively) at the undergraduate level; (50%) and,

• commitment to the improvement of university teaching with emphasis on contributions beyond the nominee’s discipline or profession (50%).

Educational Change: A Movement Approach (Palmer)Change will happen when faculty recognize

that:• “Caring about teaching and about students

brings them health as persons, and • to collaborate in a denial of that fact is to

collaborate in a diminishment of their own lives.

• They refuse any longer to act outwardly in contradiction to something they know inwardly to be true - that teaching, and teaching well, is a source of identity for them.

Educational Change: A Movement Approach (Palmer)• Isolated individuals decide to stop leading

"divided lives." • These people discover each other and form

groups for mutual support. • Empowered by community, they learn to

translate "private problems" into public issues.

• Alternative rewards emerge to sustain the movement's vision, which may force the conventional reward system to change.

Impact on learning and teaching?

• If the Academy were to work…– …on improving teaching & learning in your

department/institution/country – What would you like to do

• Yourself?• As an Academy?• With Ako Aotearoa?

• Take 4-5 minutes on your own• Then, share your ideas with the person beside you • Identify something you might do together

– 6 minutes• Comments from groups

3M projects

• 1996 “Ethical Principles for College and University Teaching” (Murray, Gillese, Lennon, Mercer, & Robinson)

• 2005 “Making a Difference: A Celebration of the 3M Teaching Fellowship”

• 2008 “Silences in teaching and Learning”

• Being a teacher is being present at creation, when the clay begins to breathe.

• Nothing is more exciting than being nearby when the breathing starts.

• Peter Beidler (1983 US Professor of the Year)