1. Stepping stones to teaching and learning success Project Team: Vicky Mabin James Richard Heike Schänzel Robyn Moore Marina Dobrovolskaya Showcasing Teaching Excellence

2. Goals – To recognise good teaching and raise teaching standards across the FCA Idea – To develop a One-Stop teaching and learning resource for our commerce teachers Accessible Collection – Strategies, ideas and insights from our people Background

3. Interviews conducted with teachers from FCA between July and November, 2010. Focus – on teaching context, goals, process, strategies, challenges, outcomes, and big lessons. What we did

4. Voices Listening to the voices of some of our best teachers

5. Successful teaching and learning – Key Themes Successful teaching is a matter of attitude and energy rather than a specific teaching style – FCA teacher http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/te aching/successful-teaching- learning.aspx Teachers bring different personalities that lead to individual teaching styles A positive attitude towards teaching and class interaction is a must Successful teaching requires a level of physicality and involvement Successful teaching requires a high level of organisation and preparation Students need relevant, 'real world' learning

6. Tools

7. Teachers in action http:// www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/te aching/video-clips.aspx How learning works – teaching smart http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teachin g/how-learning-works.aspx Teacher self-audit http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teachin g/teaching-audit.aspx Project Resources http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teachin g/project-resources.aspx Inside

8. To Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Penny Boumelha for support and funding, through a VUW Learning and Teaching Fund 2010 grant. To Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Associate Professor David Crabbe, Dr Stephen Marshall (Acting Director, UTDC) and Dr Kathryn Sutherland (UTDC/FHSS), for support and advice. To our FCA colleagues. Visit Teaching Matters at http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/ We value your continued feedback. Thank you