ADEPT Program

Learning is a life-long endeavour and constant change in our disciplines, higher education, and the world of work motivate us to keep learning and enhancing our practice. Professional learning takes many forms; self-directed learning, learning through formal studies, and learning with others.

The Adelaide Development Program for Educators and Professionals who Teach (ADEPT) program is a peer-led approach to profession learning. The program provides academic and professional staff in teaching, and support for teaching roles, with the opportunity to be inspired by and learn from the practice of their peers.

Dr James Botten, School of Biological Sciences explains that the ADEPT program provides an excellent opportunity to engage with like-minded staff.

"The opportunity to meet and chat with fellow staff dealing with many of the same teaching challenges, has been a real highlight of the ADEPT program." Dr Botten said.

"All this has been made possible through the dedication of the ADEPT teachers, which has been a significant motivator for engaging with the modules and furthering my own professional development as an educator; I cannot speak about them highly enough." 

ADEPT Academic Leads, Associate Professor Beth Loveys (School of Agriculture, Food and Wine) and Dr Hayley McGrice (School of Animal and Veterinary Science) are excited to facilitate a range of popular sessions this year.

"The strength of ADEPT is that it enables colleagues to share their challenges and innovations. We present evidence-based approaches and then everyone can discuss how to effectively translate these ideas into their specific context" explains Associate Professor Loveys. 

Another key benefit of the ADEPT Program is the opportunity to bring together knowledge from a range of areas across the University.

"We learn so much from our colleagues in these sessions because the participants come from different faculties and disciplines and have different levels of experience. The conversations are always interesting and surface fantastic ideas and examples of good teaching practice". Said Dr McGrice.

The opportunity to meet and chat with fellow staff dealing with many of the same teaching challenges, has been a real highlight of the ADEPT program.Dr James Botten

ADEPT offers both online and in person sessions and a range of self-paced online learning courses to support staff throughout their teaching careers. Development opportunities include:

• Induction courses for those new to teaching or new to teaching at Adelaide.
• Sessions to enhance continuous development of learning, teaching and assessment, for all teaching staff.
• Enhancing professional practice sessions, to further advance your teaching effectiveness, whilst also gaining evidence to support your applications for teaching awards or promotion.
• Sessions which focus on academic integrity, sharing advice and resources to prepare you for academic integrity success

Session and course information, plus registration can be found on the ADEPT webpage, with any queries to be directed to teachexcellence@adelaide.edu.au

ADEPT: Planning for Action

Do you have an idea for how to enhance your students’ learning? Are you looking for a solution to a teaching challenge? Are you wondering how to determine if your teaching approach is effective?

In this practical, interactive session you will create an action research plan.

Wednesday 15 February, 10.00-11.30 am

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ADEPT: Active Learning - Strategies for online and on-campus

Actively engaging students in their learning process using contextual examples and interactive tools helps to demonstrate the application of knowledge, adds value to the learning experience and can improve knowledge retention. 

During this session participants will be shown, and participate in, a variety of active learning strategies with examples from multiple disciplines. 

Wednesday 22 February, 1.30-3.30 pm

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