Award Winners 2009
Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
Our congratulations go to the following nominees from UWS who were selected to receive Carrick Institute Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, 2009.
The successful nominees from the University of Western Sydney are:
- Mr Michael Blissenden - School of Law - For instilling in tax law students motivation for life long learning through the use of narrative and storytelling.
- Neera Handa, Erst Carmichael & Clare Power - Student Learning Unit - An interdisciplinary approach to sustainability as a platform for successful transition to university for first in family, low SES, NESB and/or mature age students.
- Dr E Charles Morris - School of Natural Sciences - For creating multiple links to the teaching-research nexus to ensure relevant, engaged and authentic learning (REAL) in large tertiary science classes.
- Dr Loshini Naidoo - School of Education - For making social justice education and community engagement central rather than peripheral to pre-service teacher professional development.
- Dr Ruying Qi - School of Humanities and Languages - Underpinning language teaching with research: How cognitive and developmental approaches lead to effective learning and assessment in classes of native and non-native speakers of Chinese.
- Dr Yenna Salamonson - School of Nursing and Midwifery - For being responsive to an evolving learning environment, while maintaining focus on inspiring and engaging students, and leading in educational research and scholarly activities.
- Associate Professor Catherine Sinclair - Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) - For a sustained, internationally recognised contribution to teacher education in a socially disadvantaged region through the purpose-built Integrated Practicum and its Pedagogies.
- Ms Nicole Stegemann - School of Marketing & Dr Catherine Sutton-Brady - University of Sydney - For enhancing student learning in marketing through innovative assessments and holistic curriculum development.
Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)
Teaching Excellence Award Winners
We are proud to congratulate Pauline Ross and Glenn Pearce for receiving Teaching Excellence Awards from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
Associate Professor Pauline Ross - College of Health Sciences
Category: Biological Sciences, Health and Related Studies
In an exciting decade of scientific discovery and endeavour, where we have witnessed researchers in the discipline of biology create the first human clones, multi award winning Associate Professor Pauline Ross is creatively and passionately communicating biology to a new generation of students. These students will become our future biologists, our future teachers and our future scientifically literate citizens and will be entrusted with shaping the future of human life on our planet and ensuring the survival of its biological diversity.
During her 25 years as an educator, 16 as an academic in the discipline of biology, Pauline has created a paradigm shift in the learning, teaching and assessment of biology and aquatic ecology. The cornerstone of this paradigm shift is creativity. Thousands of her students, immersed in this paradigm shift, state that it is the most memorable learning experience of their life: enabling them to be creatively, cognitively and scientifically prepared to meet the complex challenges that their futures will bring.
Dr Glenn Pearce - College of Business, School of Marketing
Category: Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies
Dr Glenn Pearce, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Western Sydney, facilitates student engagement and learning through the use of groundbreaking experiential learning techniques, particularly educational drama. In recent years, Glenn has even incorporated puppetry-in-education and ventriloquism into his teaching and learning repertoire. He is a multiple teaching award recipient, and prolific publisher of educational drama research, who continually reinvents himself in order to keep abreast of new ideas and connect with students.
Glenn teaches largely undergraduate students with generally lower university entry scores compared to students at many other Australian universities.
