Educational Change: Cultures • Bureaucratic approach – Carrick/Australian Learning & Teaching Council – Identify excellence – Reward – And then?
Educational Change: Cultures • Business/corporate culture – 3 M National Teaching Fellows (Canada) • Identify the “best” • Bring them together • Let “it” happen
3 M National Teaching Fellowship • • Started in 1986 10 a year (Max) out of 34 K eligible 3 day “retreat” Chateau Montebello
Chateau Montebello (1)
Chateau Montebello (2)
3 M Criteria • excellence in teaching over a number of years, principally (but not exclusively) at the undergraduate level; (50%) and, • commitment to the improvement of university teaching with emphasis on contributions beyond the nominee’s discipline or profession (50%).
Educational Change: A Movement Approach (Palmer) Change will happen when faculty recognize that: • “Caring about teaching and about students brings them health as persons, and • to collaborate in a denial of that fact is to collaborate in a diminishment of their own lives. • They refuse any longer to act outwardly in contradiction to something they know inwardly to be true - that teaching, and teaching well, is a source of identity for
Educational Change: A Movement Approach (Palmer) • Isolated individuals decide to stop leading "divided lives. " • These people discover each other and form groups for mutual support. • Empowered by community, they learn to translate "private problems" into public issues. • Alternative rewards emerge to sustain the movement's vision, which may force the conventional reward system to change.
Impact on learning and teaching? • If the Academy were to work… – …on improving teaching & learning in your department/institution/country – What would you like to do • Yourself? • As an Academy? • With Ako Aotearoa? • Take 4 -5 minutes on your own • Then, share your ideas with the person beside you • Identify something you might do together – 6 minutes • Comments from groups
3 M projects • 1996 “Ethical Principles for College and University Teaching” (Murray, Gillese, Lennon, Mercer, & Robinson) • 2005 “Making a Difference: A Celebration of the 3 M Teaching Fellowship” • 2008 “Silences in teaching and Learning”
• Being a teacher is being present at creation, when the clay begins to breathe. • Nothing is more exciting than being nearby when the breathing starts. • Peter Beidler (1983 US Professor of the Year)
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