student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching

Student Feedback & Leadership10.11 Evaluation of the ART ProjectThe ‘Good Teaching Score” (GTS) for the majority of the subjects that wereused as a ‘pilot subject’ in this project improved by about 5-10% per year andin general the school average CES increased continuously from the start of thisproject by 15.5% in 2007 and another 9% in 2008. The ART project also leadto the success of 2 Teaching and Learning grants by the group in 2008 to thevalues of $48000 and $18000 respectively.The project lead to the creation of a new position of Director of Learning andTeaching in the school. The position is taken by one of the ART members andhis role is to continue to transfer effective teaching and learning practicesto other staff in the school and to encourage them to share their innovationswith others in the school.The School has also introduced an incentive for improving the GTS in theschool by rewarding staff that have achieved significant improvements in theirteaching, and has made each discipline group responsible for improving theCES score for their discipline. This will only be achieved if each individualmember in the discipline adopts the effective teaching, learning andassessment practices. The other significant impact of this project is thefact that improving the teaching score has become part of the work planof the School.10.12 RecommendationsSchool:––Address student diversity in multi-discipline large classes by providingrelevant disciplinary context-related exemplars in teaching service classes.––Provide group feedback on student assessment on a weekly basis andrecapture the problematic topics through extra assessment (if possible)before moving to the new topics. This is very effective for first year and themathematically weaker groups.––Encourage teaching staff to share their success and failures in teachinglarge classes and use it as a mentoring guide for all the new and lessexperienced staff.– – Experienced teaching staff should be encouraged to use more applicableexamples in their teaching material so that service students can see therelation between their field of study and topics taught.Page 150