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Teaching Quality Indicators Project Ian Solomonides Excellence is as low as we go or When is good, good enough?. Standards (Professional Standards) What? Descriptions of what a profession believes its members should be able to do, to know, and value. What can they do?
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Teaching Quality Indicators Project Ian Solomonides Excellence is as low as we go or When is good, good enough?
Standards (Professional Standards) What? Descriptions of what a profession believes its members should be able to do, to know, and value. What can they do? Guide expectations, give something to aspire to, and to reflect against. Serve as a focus for professional development. Raise the status of, and stakeholder confidence in the profession.
Professional Standards – Workshop Tasks Task 1: Under, ‘Be able to do’, ‘Know’, and ‘Value’. Generate a numbered list of statements you might expect to see relative to each heading. Task 2: Indicate where the evidence might be found for each of the statements Task 3: Repeat with students and cross reference?
Macquarie Points of Cross-Reference or Alignment? Promotions / Performance Level Objectives Graduate capabilities Peer review of teaching Research informed learning Performance development and review Recruitment, induction, foundations and PGCert programs HDR supervision standards External awards and accolades Student evaluation and feedback Continuing professional development ? ? ? ? ?
Health Warnings and Risk Management Do standards limit professionalism? Can we measure the benefit to students? How can you measure professional standards and still value innovation, autonomy and individuality? How do you counter the perception of techno-rationalism? How do we make progress towards standards? What process or evidence do we subscribe to?