Information and Resources for Leaders

Teaching and learning leaders include:

• Associate Deans (Teaching and Learning);
• Heads of School;
• Associate Heads of School (Teaching and Learning);
• Unit Chairs;
• Members of teaching and learning committees; and
• All staff with teaching and learning leadership roles and/or responsibilities.

This page provides advice and resources to assist you in your role in contributing to policy development at the School Faculty and Institutional level and in supporting academic staff, including casual academic staff to enhance student engagement.

• Deakin University Strategic Plan 2008
• AUSSE Overview (59 KB)
• Using AUSSE data for enhancement (251 KB)
• Workshopping AUSSE data (443 KB) A guide for facilitators.
• Advice on casual academic staff induction:
  
  
  • Casual Academic Staff Handbook
  • Guide for Supervisors of Casual Academic Staff
  • Professional Development for Casual Academic Staff
  • Forms & Documents

• The RED report a report that focuses on sessional teaching in higher education.
• Strategies for Student Engagement - for Teachers (93 KB)
• Examples of Student Engagement - for Teachers (115 KB)
• Strategies for Student Engagement - for Leaders (106 KB)
• Refereed journal article on how Deakin University is taking a whole-of institution approach to student engagement: Focusing on university student engagement at the institutional level
• Understanding and promoting student engagement in university learning communities (327 KB).