SPEAKER :
Professor Iain Hay, Professor of Geography, Flinders University, Australia Learning and Teaching Council's (ALTC) Discipline Scholar for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
SYPNOSIS :
A great deal of university teaching goes on behind closed doors, both literally and figuratively. Behind those doors, often-nervous practitioners struggle to deliver seamless, word-perfect presentations that demonstrate flawless knowledge of their subject matter -- mired in the self-destructive and unproductive belief that these are the qualities of high quality teaching. Yet perfect delivery and unfailing content mastery are not necessarily attributes of exceptional teaching.
In this public lecture, Iain Hay opens the doors of those classrooms in which some of the world's most inspiring and capable university educators teach and offers up their insights on the practices and principles of teaching excellence. He draws from and reflects on the autoethnographic accounts of distinguished university teachers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States to uncover the circumstances and practices that have made them great teachers.
DATE :
20 September 2012
TIME :
11:30:00 AM
VENUE :
University Hall Auditorium
ORGANISED BY :
Centre for Development for Teaching and Learning