student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching
student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching
student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching
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Student Feedback & Leadership<br />
At the first meeting of the Reference Group the Project Manager outlined the key<br />
concepts that underpin the project as:<br />
Leadership - viewed as the intersection of individual capability with broader<br />
University support <strong>and</strong> management/accountability systems <strong>and</strong> purposes<br />
<strong>and</strong> how we underst<strong>and</strong> these rather than simply the capacity of<br />
individuals.<br />
Multidisciplinary - defined as the need to create institutional conditions that<br />
will create the opportunities <strong>for</strong> multi – level <strong>leadership</strong> capacity building to<br />
occur.<br />
Integration - between personal <strong>and</strong> organisational levels of activity.<br />
In summary, it is evident that the senior <strong>leadership</strong> of the university was<br />
committed to a more devolved approach to <strong>leadership</strong> in enhancing <strong>student</strong><br />
learning <strong>and</strong> teaching practice through the use of <strong>student</strong> <strong>feedback</strong>. Further<br />
evidence of this commitment occurred in action taken to link the project<br />
to the University strategic <strong>and</strong> academic directions as discussed below.<br />
3.1.3 Act<br />
Initial action was taken by senior <strong>for</strong>mal <strong>leadership</strong> between August 2006 <strong>and</strong><br />
April 2007. This included identifying the relationship between the Project <strong>and</strong><br />
RMIT Strategy, Plans <strong>and</strong> Policies <strong>and</strong> <strong>for</strong>mally establishing the multi-level<br />
<strong>leadership</strong> teams <strong>for</strong> this project.<br />
In his opening remarks to the initial meetings of the Project Team <strong>and</strong> the first<br />
Plenary session the DVC(A) identified the close links between the Distributed<br />
Leadership project <strong>and</strong> RMIT’s commitment to multi-level <strong>leadership</strong> approaches<br />
in the RMIT Strategic Plan (RMIT 2010, Designing the Future), the Academic<br />
Plan (2006-2010) <strong>and</strong> the RMIT Student Feedback Policy (2005). These were<br />
later identified in detail as:<br />
a. RMIT Strategic Plan 2010<br />
Priority 6 of RMIT’s Strategic Plan identifies the commitment of the university<br />
to developing staff <strong>leadership</strong> capacity with the aim of being able to:<br />
Attract develop, reward <strong>and</strong> retain staff who will embrace the future with<br />
energy <strong>and</strong> creativity <strong>and</strong> who are focused on the needs of our <strong>student</strong>s<br />
<strong>and</strong> our partners.<br />
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