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.
Enable
Those who enable learner experiences at Deakin provide resources, structures and services which support student 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 environments and resources
- Demonstrate and promote indigenous and other cultural competence and awareness in learning resources
V2 Promote engagement in learning and equity of opportunity
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: holistic
- Design a variety and choice of learning activities, resources and assessments to support the success of all learners
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 practice
- Respond to emerging trends and issues within the wider HE context that impact on practice
- Be aware of the changing nature of learner demographics and implications for practice
- Partnering with students, alumni, industry and community to enable meaningful learning experiences
V5 Collaborate with others to enhance practice
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: collaboration
- Collaborate effectively with peers, learners, community and experts to provide high quality resources and learning materials
- Provide expertise and support in collaborative development of learning resources, programs, processes and/or tools
CORE KNOWLEDGE – what we need to know
K1 How learners learn
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: holistic, scholarship
- Relevant contemporary learning theory
- Ways to design and develop support materials for learners across a course
- The implications of learners’ discipline backgrounds on learning resources, programs, processes and/or tools
- Ways that learners engage with learning
K2 Approaches to teaching and supporting learning
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: active and collaborative
- Current teaching practices in the discipline
- 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 practice and the impact on learner learning and experience
- Ways to use evidence to measure effectiveness of practice, critical reflection on the evidence and implement changes to practice
- Engage with self or peer reflection of practice
K4 Appropriate use of technologies and resources for learning
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: digital
- Minimum standards and best practice in design and development of digital tools and resources
- Application of accessibility standards for Ways to implement innovative, accessible and inclusive educational technologies
- Affordances of tools and technologies to be able to make recommendations for practice
K5 Requirements for quality assurance and enhancement
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: quality
- Deakin and Faculty Teaching and Learning strategies, policies and procedures
- Ways to review and monitor feedback on practice
- The requirements of subject or professional standards, working with national professional and/or statutory bodies
- Have an understanding of how Deakin’s Graduate Learning Outcomes impact on their practice
AREAS OF ACTIVITY – what we do
A1 Design and plan learning
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: course-wide, innovation, sustainability
- Design and develop learning materials and activities that are aligned with DeakinDesign principles
- Develop professional learning activities and innovations to support teaching teams to enhance teaching and learning experiences
- Develop tools and processes to support course and unit development
A2 Teach and support learning
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: active and collaborative, integrated
- Support and recommend appropriate practice relevant to the discipline, study stage and mode and digital and physical affordances of the learning environment Evaluate and implement educational technologies and innovations for teaching and learning
- Develop professional learning activities and support for teaching teams to enhance their practice
- Enable learning environments that promote active and collaborative learning opportunities among learners, teachers and communities
A3 Assess and give feedback
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: authentic, feedback-focused, course-wide
- Evaluate and implement educational technologies and innovations for assessment and feedback in collaboration with teaching teams
- Develop professional learning activities and support for teaching teams to enhance their assessment and feedback practices
A4 Support and guide learners
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: holistic, integrated
- Design and develop learning resources that incorporate academic and other learner support
- Build staff awareness in resources, services and approaches to learner support
A5 Enhance practice through professional development
Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: scholarship
- Engage with others’ or own research to inform practice
- Evaluate practice and innovations through evidence and evaluation frameworks
- Contribute to professional bodies and communities of practice in teaching and learning
- Engage in relevant professional learning activities
- Reflect and develop own teaching philosophy