Smart Casual : Towards Excellence in Sessional Teaching in Law : Final Report.
Half of all teaching in Australian higher education is provided by sessional staff, rendering the quality of their teaching critical to student learning, retention and progress. However, national research suggests support and training for sessional teachers remains inadequate. In law, this problem i...
| Institutions: | University of Adelaide University of Adelaide Flinders University University of Western Australia |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
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Office for Learning and Teaching
2014
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| Acceso en liña: | /resources/SD13_2745_Hewitt_final%20report_2014.pdf /resources/SD13_2745_Hewitt_final%20report_attachment_2014.pdf |
| Summary: | Half of all teaching in Australian higher education is provided by sessional staff, rendering the quality of their teaching critical to student learning, retention and progress. However, national research suggests support and training for sessional teachers remains inadequate. In law, this problem is compounded by the need for staff to teach discipline-specific skills and content to students destined for a socially-bounded profession. Yet sessional law teachers are often time-poor, full-time practitioners weakly connected to the tertiary sector. The distinct nature of these sessional staff and discipline-specific learning outcomes required in law demand discipline-specific sessional staff training. This is the final report from a project that addressed this national need by identifying and responding to the professional development requirements of sessional staff in law. In consultation with a national expert panel, it designed, trialed and evaluated three professional development modules with a view to generating resources to be implemented nationally across the diversity of Australian law schools. |
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| ISBN: | 9781743618165 (PDF) 9781743618172 (DOCX) 9781743618158 (print ed) 9781743618165 (PDF) 9781743618172 (DOCX) 9781743618158 (print ed) |
