Educational Change: Cultures Bureaucratic approach –Carrick/Australian Learning & Teaching Council –Identify excellence –Reward –And then?

Educational Change: Cultures Business/corporate culture –3M National Teaching Fellows (Canada) Identify the “best” Bring them together Let “it” happen

3M National Teaching Fellowship Started in a year (Max) out of 34K eligible 3 day “retreat” Chateau Montebello

Chateau Montebello (1)

Chateau Montebello (2)

3M 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 them.

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

3M projects 1996 “Ethical Principles for College and University Teaching” (Murray, Gillese, Lennon, Mercer, & Robinson) 2005 “Making a Difference: A Celebration of the 3M Teaching Fellowship” 2008 “Silences in teaching and Learning”

3M Projects 1991: Revaluing Teaching: An Open Letter to the Presidents of Canadian Universities 2001: A Focused Teaching Dossier: 3M RED (Review of Educational Dossiers) 2002: Teaching in Canadian Higher Education - The State of the Art 2003: University Teaching & Learning - The Case for a National Strategy in Education 2004: Thank you letter to Student Associations 2005: Open Letter to University Presidents - Using Teaching Awards to Promote a Teaching and Learning Culture

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)