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Academic Advisors Our year in review

2011 TPA Generalist Academic Advisors' Report

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Academic AdvisorsOur year in review

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Academic Advisers Annual Report 2011

To evidence our achievements, we have drawn from the following data.

Workshop evaluations

Feedback from individual staff.

Assessment against individual job descriptions.

Assessment against Te Puna Ako’s strategic plan.

Assessment against our own team plan.

Personal reflections.

Minutes of team meetings.

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Support development and implementation of Te Puna Ako strategic and operational plans

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Supporting the Academic Strategy

We have continued to share and support the Unitec Academic Strategy through

our Teaching and Learning Community of Practice

workshops

departmental support

collaboration with Maia and the Pacific Center.

Our slideshow has been viewed 495 times.

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Supporting the Living Curriculum (including the Tick)

For 2011 our Teaching and Learning CoP has over 100 blogs posts, notes and events which support the Living Curriculum. We have continued to integrate the Living Curriculum key themes into our work, including our workshops, mentoring, departmental support, and workshop design. We have made key resources accessible to staff in our workshops, departmental support and CoP. A small sample:

Engaging in Complex Conversations The Living Curriculum resource wiki

The living curriculum The living curriculum (2)

More on the living curriculum Initial thoughts - operationalising the living curriculum

Mapping the LC: Assessment Questions to consider about the Living Curriculum I

Questions to consider about the Living Curriculum II

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Support to the eLearing Strategy

We have been actively involved in supporting the strategy throughout 2011. On involvement has included:

as liaison support for eLearning Community Coordinators in departments

the creation of an online Community of Practice for teachers at Unitec

providing Moodle training

providing eLearning in our workshops and other services.

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Supporting Prctice-Based Learning

Members of Unitec’s Practice Based Learning CoP travelled to Napier for the New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education conference (NZACE).

Everyone who attended presented on best practice, a topical issue or research project.

Diana Ayling is a member of the NZACE Council and an editorial board member of the Asia Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education.

http://www.nzace.ac.nz/conferences/2011.shtml

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Provide support for assessment, learning and teaching development initiatives with academic staff and department communities

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Support to Departments

Throughout the year, we have worked with every academic department, Maia and the Pacifica centre to provide professional development in:

curriculum design

assessment

Facilitation

Evaluation

Other training was provided to departments as requested

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Support to teaching staff

In 2010 we have advised over 29 individual staff, including:

New teacher mentoring

Mentoring for promotions

Mentoring for upgrading qualifications

Mentoring for awards

74 teachers attended either promotion or practice portfolio workshops

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Te Puna Ako Workshops

212 Attendees in 2011, with workshops in:

Design, assessment, facilitation, evaluation for new teachers

‘Master classes’ in the four competencies for experienced teachers

The four competencies for the Living Curriculum

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Support to Communities of Practice

Using a social constructivist approach to teacher learning and development, we have continued to support a range of communities of practice at Unitec. 15 groups are now established through the T & L Community. These communities are led by a variety of Unitec staff, and are largely self sustaining.

http://tlcommunityunitec.ning.com/groups/group/list

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Curriculum Development

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Curriculum Development and the Living

CurriculumCurriculum Development continues to be a key

element of our work with teachers and teaching communities.

We have modelled integrated course design in all our workshops in 2011, with a view to giving teachers positive learning experiences. The feedback from the workshops has been very positive and we are happy with our approach.

support for development of both Pasifika and Matauranga Maori components in programmes and courses.

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Teaching and learning activities associated

with quality assurance

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NZQA has mandated a new approach to quality assurance and this will impact on programmes, curricula and teachers.

In order to support teachers to adapt to the new environment we have posted a range of resources online.

We have changed our evaluation workshops and teacher support to include exposure to the 6 evaluative questions and support for good evaluative practice.

In our own practice we have continued to evaluate our work. We have sought feedback from workshops.

We have continued to share our activities through our blog and maintain a wiki which records our activity throughout the year.

http://tpaacademic.blogspot.com/

http://tpaadvisors.wikispaces.com/

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Scholarship of assessment, learning

and teaching

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Scholarship of assessment, learning and teaching remains at the heart of our work with teachers. We continue to explore and research in a range of teaching and learning areas, presenting in the local, national and internation arenas.

Ayling, D. & Hebblethwaite, D. (2011) Facebook: From offline to online communities of practice in practice based learning. Published in the proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education, Napier, New Zealand, April, 2011.

Ayling, D. & Flagg, E. (2011) Being where teachers are - an online community of practice for tertiary teachers. Published in the proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education, Napier, New Zealand, April, 2011.

Flagg, E. & Ayling, D. (2011) Teacher engagement in a Web 2.0 world: Developing your online teaching and learning Community of Practice. Published in the proceedings of ASCILITE, Hobart, Australia, December, 2011.

Diana made five presentations and Ed presented at four conferences/symposia.

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Simon Nash has been the coordinator of the research seminars.

Ed and Diana presented a workshop on Supported Experiments at the 2011 Unitec Teaching and Learning Symposium.

Simon Nash participated in a Fishbowl on the Living Curriculum at the 2010 Unitec Teaching and Learning Symposium.

Conferences:

HERDSA: Research Symposium - Diana and Simon

NZACE - Diana and Ed.

The Strategic Technology Conference - Diana

ASCILITE - Diana and Ed

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Evaluate impact of Te Puna Ako activities and

initiatives

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In 2011 we have continued to use a variety of tools and mechanisms to evaluate our own work, that of our team and of Te Puna Ako more generally.

Each member of the team has developed their teaching portfolio

We have evaluated our workshops - feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.

Masterclass workshops staff stated they found us to be informative and supportive. They were impressed by the range and quality of resources made available to them. They are impressed with the follow up individual support.

Peer Observation of Teaching for Te Puna Ako staff, and all of us have had our teaching observed in 2011.

http://tpaadvisors.wikispaces.com/Informal+Feedback

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Commitment to Unitec Values

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Unitec’s strategic goals are explicit in our work.

We seek to create a supportive environment for teachers and students.

We are active in our commitment to Te Noho Kotahitanga. In 2011 Dr Ed Flagg and Nina Pelling were members of the Tangata Whenua committee.

Diana Ayling has supported initiatives in curriculum development and elearning in the Tangata Whenua committee

We have continued to support the integration of Matauranga Maori into curriculum and to encourage learning and teaching approaches which support all learners

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Conclusion

We offer valuable support and resources to teachers at Unitec.

The increased attendance at the generic workshops, the increased portfolio activity, and the continued support of the online professional development community of practice is a clear endorsement of our approach from staff.

We have had good engagements with new teachers, and demonstrated outputs in scholarship of teaching and learning.

We continue to support a range of Unitec activities through various committees and projects.