Deakin Teaching Capability Framework
Teaching Capability Framework
The Teaching Capability Framework
The dimensions of the framework have been articulated for the four professional domains. Choose the domain that is most relevant to your context. You may find that your practice operates across more than one of the domain. The practices identified are not exhaustive and not everyone will engage in all the practices shown in the framework.
Design
Those who design learning opportunities at Deakin work together to design curriculum, resources, pedagogical strategies, learning activities, assessment and ways to use technology in learning
PROFESSIONAL VALUES – how we act.
V1 Respect individual and diverse groups of learners
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: inclusive, integrated, relational
- Design inclusive, accessible and equitable learning activities, resources and assessments
- Advise on the accessibility of tools and platforms
- Evaluate and provide advice on indigenous and other cultural perspectives on learning materials and assessments
- Provide flexibility in design of learning activities, resources and assessments to support success of all learners
V2 Promote engagement in learning and equity of opportunity
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: holistic
- Leverage open access learning materials in educational design
- Incorporate links and resources on support materials for learning
- Design learning activities, resources and assessments that acknowledge factors that impact on retention and success
V3 Use evidence-informed approaches
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: scholarship
- Apply evidence-based frameworks to practice (including DeakinDesign)
- Engage in reflective practice for teaching
- Contribute to scholarship of learning and teaching through sharing of practice, developing evidence-based approaches, dissemination and/or application of research
- Seek opportunities for relevant professional learning activities
V4 Respond to the wider higher education context
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: partnership
- Implement university, faculty and discipline priorities into learning design
- Respond to emerging trends and issues within the wider HE context the impact curriculum design and professional practice within the discipline
- Be aware of the changing nature of learner demographics and implications for learning design
- Take professional body requirements, regulation and standards frameworks into account within design of learning activities, resources and assessment
- Partnering with students, alumni, industry and community to design meaningful learning experiences
V5 Collaborate with others to enhance practice
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: collaboration
- Collaborate effectively with peers, learners, community and/or industry to provide design solutions which support effective teaching and learning
- Engage collaboratively with discipline experts and experts in teaching and learning, curriculum development and learner experience within and beyond the university to provide high quality learning experiences
CORE KNOWLEDGE – what we need to know
K1 How learners learn
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: holistic, scholarship
- Contemporary learning theory
- Ways to design and develop learning opportunities where social learning can occur between peers and teachers
- The implications of learners’ discipline backgrounds on the unit or course design
- Ways to sequence the curriculum to support development and evidence of learning outcome
K2 Approaches to teaching and supporting learning
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: active and collaborative
- Current teaching practices in the discipline
- Ways to translate discipline knowledge and skills into active and collaborative learning activities in order to meet the learning outcomes
- Alternative designs and learning materials to deliver on the same outcomes to facilitate a diverse range of learners to learn equitably
K3 Critical evaluation of practice
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: scholarship
- How to collect and analyse evidence and analytics about teaching and learning resources and activities
- Ways to use evidence and data to measure effectiveness of practice, critical reflection on the evidence and implement changes to design
- Engage with self or peer reflection of practice
K4 Appropriate use of technologies and resources for learning
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: digital
- Available tools and technologies for learning and teaching for the discipline
- Minimum standards (LINK) and best practice in design and development of digital resources including accessibility standards Everyday Accessibility Basics LINK
- Ways to design or implement appropriate, innovative, accessible and inclusive educational tools and technologies
K5 Requirements for quality assurance and enhancement
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: quality
- Deakin and Faculty Teaching and Learning strategies, policies and procedures
- Minimum standards (course and unit sites) in digital learning environments including accessibility basics. DeakinDesign
- The requirements of subject or professional standards, working with national professional and/or statutory bodies
- Design learning activities and resources which are aligned to the AQF and the relevant GLOs, CLOs and ULOs.
AREAS OF ACTIVITY – what we do
A1 Design and plan learning
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: course-wide, innovation, sustainability
- Partner and collaborate with teaching teams on the design and development of course and unit curriculum and materials in alignment with Deakin Design principles
- Develop frameworks for curriculum design to support course and unit development
- Introduce innovative and sustainable learning experiences
A2 Teach and support learning
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: active and collaborative, integrated
- Design learning experiences and resources tailored to the discipline and study stage and mode and digital and physical affordances of the learning environment
- Design learning experiences that promote relationships, connecting learners to their discipline, others, space and place, strengthening communities and fostering belonging
- Design innovative and sustainable learning experiences and environments, accessible and inclusive of all learners
A3 Assess and give feedback
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: authentic, feedback-focused, course-wide
- Design and development of authentic, accessible and inclusive assessment tasks, resources and rubrics constructively aligned to learning outcomes which promotes academic integrity
- Design feedback processes that support learners to achieve and evidence learning outcomes, foster dialogue that enables student learners to track their progress and make evaluative judgments
- Introduce c assessment and feedback design
A4 Support and guide learners
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: holistic, integrated
- Design scaffolded learning activities that foster the development of capabilities that transform learners into graduates who can achieve their goals
- Incorporate academic and other learner support within learning materials
- Design learning experiences that build on and connect learners’ existing knowledges and skills, promote relationships and fosters wellbeing and belonging
A5 Enhance practice through professional development
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: scholarship
- Engage with others’ or own research to inform the design of learning and teaching activities, resources and environments
- Evaluate practice and innovations through evidence and evaluation frameworks
- Contribute to professional bodies and communities of practice in learning and teaching design
- Engage in relevant professional learning activities
- Reflect and develop own teaching philosophy