Selena Chan
Prime Minister’s Supreme Award recipient 2007
Selena is an outstanding professional teacher with a wide range of experience and talents including the ability to develop programmes of study that are heavily focussed on learning outcomes.
"In baking, many skills and attitudes pertinent to teaching and research are practiced on a daily basis. The most important is that one must continually work at producing a good product."
View ProfileMargo Barton
Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching
Margo’s knowledge and expertise are recognised nationally and internationally. She has demonstrated to a high degree her passion and dedication in every aspect of her academic role.
"The overriding philosophy and aim behind my learning and teaching practice is to support learners to find their own way from an informed point of view".
View ProfileDr Donna Buckingham
Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching
Amongst her peers she has a reputation as an outstanding teacher that is founded on her roles as manager and lead teacher in LAWS 101.
"My role is not simply to construct a coherent body of knowledge. It is also about fostering intellectual courage and independence, preserving creativity, and modelling the ethical and process skills that define my discipline".
View ProfileDr Katharine Dickinson
Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching
Kath is committed to ‘learning by doing’ where students learn through their own inquiry.
"As a teacher, I encourage them to become independent both as people and as learners, in thought and action, and to be critical and lateral thinkers".
View ProfileDr Diane Johnson
Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching
Her focus is to provide an example of lifelong learning, encouraging learners to see the completion of each course not as an end, but as the beginning of a journey that can lead to a variety of interesting and exciting discoveries and experiences.
"I believe that effective teaching is part of a cycle of learning, consultation, preparation and reflection that begins long before a class meets for the first time".
View ProfileDr Angus McIntosh
Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching
His teaching style is engaging, he always strives to include everyone at their own level and encourages them to achieve to the best of their abilities.
"My commitment to teaching was driven by a personal vision to change the way humans treat the world, enhanced by the rewards of helping students learn".
View ProfilePeter Mellow
Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching
Peter is is dedicated and committed to his work, provides inspirational assistance to his peers and is ever striving for excellence.
"The only constant in education is change. This oxymoron has guided a lot of my development".
View ProfileDr Tracy Riley
Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching
Tracy's teaching philosophy and practice are driven by the belief that a teacher scholar engages in research-informed teaching and teaching-informed research.
"I ground my teaching in research and reflective examples of how teaching must be tailored to the individual needs of my students".
View ProfileDr Christine Rubie-Davies
Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching
One of Christine’s most notable philosophies is the importance and value of feedback.
"Excellent teachers listen to students, take heed of what they are saying and make changes, because they seek to grow their pedagogy".
View ProfileDr Bryan Walpert
Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching
The structure of Bryan's courses and the exceptionally high quality of his feedback to students about their writing are a feature of student course appraisals.
"I believe students should get a chance to do something once, revise it, and then try it again – while receiving extensive feedback".
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