V1 Respect individual and diverse groups of learners

Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: inclusive, integrated, relational

• Develop inclusive, accessible and equitable learning environments, activities, resources and assessments
• Demonstrate and promote indigenous and other cultural competence and awareness in teaching and in learner interactions
• Provide appropriate scaffolding and sequencing to support a range of learner interactions
• Identify and nurture high achieving learners
• Provide flexibility in learning activities, resources and assessments to support success of all learners [inclusive]

V2 Promote engagement in learning and equity of opportunity

Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: holistic

• Direct learners to appropriate support and provide links to resources within the unit to enable learners to actively seek appropriate support
• Monitor and act on factors that impact on retention and success
• Negotiate support or alternative pathways for learners at risk or who have previously failed the unit

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 teaching practice
• Respond to emerging trends and issues within the wider HE context that impact on the learning experience, and professional practice within the discipline
• Be aware of the changing nature of learner demographics and implications for teaching practice
• Partnering with students, alumni, industry and community to deliver 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 high quality learning experiences
• Collaborate effectively within unit and course teaching teams through team or co-teaching, assessment panels and peer supported teaching practices
• Collaborate and engage with learners during teaching and offer relevant support
• Development of support material for teaching teams to ensure all staff contributing to teaching are aware and supported to deliver the intended learning experience

K1 How learners learn

Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: holistic, scholarship

• Contemporary learning theory
• The implication of learners’ discipline backgrounds on the unit or course design
• Development of a safe and respectful learning environment, including modelling and setting codes for respectful interactions, using inclusive language, managing sensitive content and conflict/disagreement effectively
• Ways to sequence the curriculum to support development and evidence of learning outcomes

K2 Approaches to teaching and supporting learning

Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: active and collaborative

• Ways to implement active and collaborative learning strategies
• Current teaching practices in the discipline
• Different approaches to explaining concepts to facilitate a diverse range of learners to learn equitably, and to adapt materials where necessary for diverse learners
• Ways to ensure the unit is designed to scale so that models can be equally effective with large or small numbers of learners

K3 Critical evaluation of practice

A1 Design and plan learning

Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: course-wide, innovation, sustainability

• Develop learning materials and activities that are in alignment with Deakin Design
• Ensure learning activities are constructively aligned to learning outcomes, volume of learning and assessment of learning at the course and unit level
• Introduce innovative learning experiences

A2 Teach and support learning

Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: active and collaborative, integrated

• Incorporate a range of strategies for teaching relevant to the discipline, study stage and mode and digital and physical affordances of the learning environment
• Deliver innovative and sustainable learning experiences, accessible and inclusive of all learners appropriate to the learning environment
• Promote relationships, connecting learners to their discipline, others, space and place, strengthening communities and fostering belonging
• Create a culture of inquiry and collaboration, which develop skills and knowledge through authentic application

A3 Assess and give feedback

Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: authentic, feedback-focused, course-wide

• Support learners to engage with a variety of authentic, accessible and inclusive assessment tasks
• Promote and support learners to adhere to academic integrity requirements
• Provide feedback that supports learners to achieve and evidence learning outcomes, foster dialogue that enables student to track their progress and make evaluative judgments
• Take part in assessment panels and moderate between markers within the unit
• Introduce innovative and sustainable assessment and feedback practices

A4 Support and guide learners

Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: holistic, integrated

• Deliver scaffolded learning activities that foster the development of capabilities that transform learners into graduates who can achieve their goals
• Provide academic counselling and mentoring to learners, including referral to learner support services

A5 Enhance practice through professional development

Relevant Deakin Design Principles and Practices: scholarship

• Engage with others’ or own research to inform teaching practice
• Evaluate practice and innovations through evidence and evaluation frameworks
• Contribute to professional bodies and communities of practice in teaching practice
• Engage in relevant professional learning activities
• Reflect and develop own teaching philosophy