Principles of Quality Teaching @ UNE: A digitally-enabled platform for contextualising peer review of teaching as targeted professional development

Abstract

Principles - 1: Sharing subject/discipline concepts effectively and in ways that engage students in deep approaches to learning. 2: Providing engaging and intellectually challenging activities that stimulate students' interest in learning. 3: Actively engaging students in a discipline's research enquiry process. 4: Using digital technologies and technology-mediated practices that create intellectual challenge for students and are appropriate to the discipline's learning outcomes. 5: Creating activities, tasks and assessments that widen opportunities for diverse learners to link subject matter/processes to their own experiences. 6: Encouraging effective teacher-student relationships to facilitate access to disciplinary expertise for diverse learners. 7: Operating from a position of discipline mastery to guide student achievement. 8: Reflecting on teaching practice in context for continuous improvement.