student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching

Part B: Building Leadership Capacity - SET: Mathematics & Geospatial Sciences ART Report6. How will the knowledge and experience you gained affect your futurepractice in enhancing student learning and learning and teaching practiceacross the university?It is important to keep listening to experienced staff and hearing theirsuccessful practices and listening to student’s comments and designingteaching processes by taking all of these factors into account. This is definitelya quality cycle that should always be running through the quality review loop.7. What would you like to see happen across RMIT as a result of theknowledge and skills you have learnt and the improvements you havemade to the student learning experience?This information should be readily available to any new and less experiencedacademic and general staff. More work should be done to improve thestudents’ knowledge of their responsibilities in the teaching and learningprocess.8. What future contribution, role, would you like to have in the ongoingprocess of improving the student experience?To try to improve teaching practices so that students can see the significanceof what they are learning in their future job and their daily life.Additional questions for ART leaders9. In what ways did members of your teams exercise leadership (this isintended as an objective question rather than subjective it is not intendedto mention individual names)?When staff were asked to share their successful and unsuccessful practicesand lead the group in adopting those practices.10. In what ways can leadership within teams, such as your ART,be supported and enhanced?Meetings of teams such as ours could be encouraged by the Directorof Learning and Teaching in the School and follow what we did on a yearlyreview basis.11. How can leaders of ARTs be better supported and enhanced?The teaching process involves so many staff groups of the university not justthe academic who delivers the course. To see real changes in the teachingpractices one must involve every different section of the university in theprocess and let them sit around the discussion table and hear first handfrom teaching staff how their section could improve the students experiencethroughout their university life.After being involved in this project for almost two years can say that the reasonthat this project was so effective was because of the high level managementstaff that were involved. They brought every individual section that plays a rolein delivering courses around the table and made them listen to the ART leadersand their concerns about the role of that section in supporting and improvingthe teaching process.Page 149