Ways of helping academics to clarify their teaching intentions

This case study examines the recommendations contained in Paul Ramsden et al, Recognising and rewarding good teaching in Australian higher education (CAUT, Canberra 1995), as an institutional checklist. It relates that listing to strategies which have be [words missing]

Particular attention is given to adapting an Approaches to Teaching Inventory (Trigwell and Prosser, 1993) to help staff, who teach in a variety of modes, to establish something of their personal approaches to teaching and to use this self appraisal a [words missing]

Although this case study is set within the particular context of Charles Sturt University, it considers issues of general interest to all staff who have accepted responsibilities for trying to promote good teaching.