Lumen Winter 2016 - Flipbook - Page 30
story by Genevieve Sanchez
Adelaide Education
Academy has its
first class of 2016
The University of Adelaide has
launched a new academy for sta昀昀
who specialise in teaching in a 昀椀rst
for an Australian university.
T
he initiative continues the
transformation of the teaching
and learning experience for both
students and staff at the University.
So far 49 highly-regarded teaching staff
have been inducted into the Adelaide
Education Academy with academics from
each of the University’s five faculties.
Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor
Warren Bebbington, says the intention is
to induct a total of 100 academics.
“In a research-intensive university, it is a
challenge for staff to be recognised as real
academics for teaching alone,” he says.
“By establishing the Adelaide Education
Academy, we are saying teaching is a
noble career in a university with its own
unique rewards and privileges.”
Professor Bebbington says the
University is opening a pathway for staff
to be promoted all the way to professor
for their teaching alone.
“Through its members, the academy will
become a symbol of the University’s unique
learning and teaching proposition which, to
the great benefit of our students, is at the
centre of our strategic direction,” he says.
“Among the first members of the
academy are academics who have played
an outstanding role in the quality of education
at our University for many years.”
Academy members include Associate
Professor Elizabeth Koch OAM, Head
of Classical Performance with the Elder
Conservatorium of Music, and Associate
Professor Colin Kestell from the School
of Mechanical Engineering. Both are
past winners of the University’s longrunning Stephen Cole the Elder Prize for
Excellence in Teaching.
“The new education academy has
already opened up opportunities for greater
collaboration between teaching focused
academics in all faculties of the University,”
says Associate Professor Koch.
“I am particularly looking forward to
sharing knowledge on aspects of teaching
and learning practice with colleagues in
other disciplines. Learning from other
teachers outside one’s own specialisation
will no doubt be very useful and inspiring
and will facilitate reflection on learning and
teaching approaches.”
Members of the academy have
exclusive opportunities to bid for learning
and teaching advancement grants, apply
for promotion based on their teaching and
learning activities, and have access to
support in the form of teaching-focused
special study programs.
www.adelaide.edu.au/learning/
teaching/academy
Above: Elizabeth Koch in Elder Hall
Left: Inaugural members of the Adelaide
Education Academy
Row 1 (seated): Bernadette Foley, Michael Leonard, John
Tretola, Rebecca Tooher, Lucy Potter, Maria Elena Gonzalez
Perdomo, Karin Hatch, Joy McEntee, Cathy Snelling
Row 2: Mignon Watson, Elizabeth Yong, Catherine Irving,
Robyn Davidson, Yung Ngothai, Elizabeth Koch, Lynn
Rogers, Beth Loveys, Pascale Quester, Warren Bebbington,
Philippa Levy, Ian Johnson, Paul Duggan, Josephine Perry
Row 3: Antoni Blazewicz, Michael Liebelt, David Butler,
Simon Pyke, Hayley McGrice, Katrina Plastow, Thomas
Buchanan, Abdallah Salem, James Botten, David Foley,
Adrian Koerber, Andrew McKinnon
Row 4: Colin Kestell, Dorothy Missingham, Sophie
Karanicolas, Karina Riggs, Robert Reid, Gareth Pritchard,
Elizabeth Beckett, Corinna Van Den Heuvel, Mario Ricci
28 Lumen | Winter 2016
