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Guide to applicants making a case for promotion: Education

The new Education section contains two sections:

  1. List up to five of your top education achievements and provide evidence of their impact on students, the discipline or education practice.
  2. Outline how your achievements demonstrate you have met the criteria for promotion in the area of education, referencing the supporting attachments.

In both of these sections it is important that your application conveys how you see the relationship between your teaching and the student learning it produces, including the Monash graduate attributes (See //www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html). One way of doing this when outlining your achievements is to concisely narrate:

  • why you made certain changes or taught in a particular way,
  • what you did to enact the change (your approach/strategy or the resource etc. you created); and
  • what was the effect or impact of that change on what students learned?

Darrell Evans

Professor Darrell Evans,
Vice-Provost (Learning and Teaching)

Ask yourself: How did you know it worked - or not? Candidates commonly make the mistake of describing their activities - what they did - as though it self-evidently translated into learning or heightened engagement. Instead, you will convey yourself as a reflective teacher if you say how you knew - what the indications were - that it worked, or what further iterative changes you made as a result of listening to student feedback or monitoring effects on learning. If some of your achievements focus on your leadership, or impacts of your scholarship of learning and teaching, you will need to demonstrate how this has influenced the discipline or the teaching practice of colleagues/peers.

You will make your case stronger if you can illustrate your achievements with a range of sources of evidence or indicators of impact. The Evidence Checklist for Promotion Candidates is designed to be a working resource to assist you to do this. Some of these sources you may already have in your possession; others may prompt you to start to collect these in a personal teaching portfolio of evidence that will make a case for promotion in the future stronger, as well as quicker to put together.

NB ‘Education' can refer to your engagement in a range of teaching and learning activities: lecturing, laboratory classes, tutorials or seminars, online interaction, fieldwork, curriculum development or resource authorship, assessment, supervision, leadership or mentoring of others in relation to teaching development, etc.