Your teaching and facilitation of learning contributions
8 August 2025
Continuing the theme of the last two tips related to preparing your Teaching Portfolio, this week we focus on telling your story through "Your teaching and facilitation of learning contributions".
"Your teaching and facilitation of learning contributions" is one of four sections in the Teaching and Facilitation of Learning achievement area in the Promotions process. The focus is on your responsibilities, activities to improve teaching, service, and publications and professional contributions.
Your teaching and facilitation of learning responsibilities
Outline the roles you have undertaken including:
- Programme coordination
- Involvement with courses
- Your role, e.g. Examiner, Lecturer, Tutor, Facilitator
- Team teaching arrangements and role, including the proportion of your involvement, e.g. 50%
- Guest lecturing
- Number of students and pass rate
- Involvement with field trips, laboratories, international and block teaching
- Supervision of Honours and Masters by Coursework students
- Other teaching activities
Activities you have undertaken to improve your teaching and facilitation of learning
Discuss the following activities and how they have led to improvements in your teaching:
- Professional development
- Changes to your courses or supervision - have a look at your Course Improvements section in your Course Outline
- Response to problems
Service regarding teaching and facilitation of learning
Talk about the service roles you have undertaken and specific activities that you undertook. Examples include:
- Faculty Teaching Committee
- Moderator
- Development of faculty teaching resources
- Course design contributions for other courses
- Presentations at workshops, seminars, etc
- Mentoring and facilitation of colleagues’ teaching and/or supervision
Publications and professional contributions
This section can include published and unpublished resources including:
- Published (and unpublished) curriculum material, textbooks, textbook resources, study guides, lab manuals, resource handbooks
- Books, conference papers, journal articles related to teaching or supervision
- Funding relating to teaching and facilitation of learning