Adding
Value
Through Teaching Fellowships
Catherine Dallemagne
I have a Medical Degree from Belgium, a PhD from the University of Qld (1990) in the Field of Physiology, and a Master of Public Health from the University of Qld (1998) in the area of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. I am a Senior Lecturer at QUT, in the School of Life Sciences where I lecture, mostly in Physiology and Pathophysiology. I have been researching in the area of Hypertension and the Kidneys.
This year I am the recipient of a QUT Teaching Fellowship. As stated on QUT’s
website “TALSS Fellowships are designed to encourage, reward and support the
development, enhancement and recognition of teaching and effective learning at
QUT.” My fellowship involves undertaking a project in one of the units I
coordinate, to implement effective integration of educational technology to
enhance learning environments, creating optimal learning outcomes for students.
I am developing resources in my unit Clinical Physiology to progressively
develop critical thinking and self reliance in my students.
More resources and directions will be
developed for the topics at the beginning of the semester than for topics at the
end of semester. Teaching Fellows also participate in seminars and briefing to
develop their scholarship of Teaching, exchanging ideas. To help in terms of
workload, resources are provided to the School to enable fellows to work on the
project one day a week between February and November. At the end of the program,
presentations will be made at conferences, for example the QUT OLT conference in
September.
So far I have found the program
invaluable. I have been able to explore the educational theories that underpin
how we structure activities for students, and I have found the time to start
developing the Unit.
(As you can imagine, there is much to learn about Catherine’s work. She was unable to write more for the Journal at this time but please do visit her website. Ed.)
http://www.life.sci.qut.edu.au/dallemagne/index.html