1. Issue 32 of SaMnet’s monthly newsletter
This Month’s
Question:
What is the biggest hurdle preventing you from
using more new innovations in the
classes you teach, or units you manage? (Click to answer)
Results available in April Newsletter
2. Conferences & publication
Melbourne, 27-30 October, 2015
Abstracts due 24 April
This is the 12th annual conference
of ISSOTL. It is a rare opportunity to participate with low cost as it is
hosted locally this year.
(The conference organisers are also looking
for reviewers for the conference abstracts – see section 7. Classifieds for
more information).
Monash University, 25-27 November,
2015
Universities are invited to send two
person teams to showcase a laboratory experiment for improvement. Due date for
EOI for experiments to be evaluated at the workshop: 17 August
Past:
February SaMnet Leadership Development Workshops
Future:
An additional workshop will be held
in June this year for Queensland and
Northern Territory academics in Brisbane. More details will be available in the
coming months. You can register your interest at the link below.
Australian
Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (ACSME)
30 September – 2 October, 2015
A date for the diary – this
conference is the main gathering of the SaMnet community and all SaMnet
newsletter recipients are invited. The ACSME conference website will soon be
open for abstract submission.
4. SaMnet activity
With four February Leadership workshops
completed, and one planned for June, SaMnet HQ has now turned efforts towards
what SaMnet should look like moving forward. If you would like to make
suggestions from what you would like to see from SaMnet, send ideas and
questions to samnetaustralia@gmail.com
5. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
This month we have tips for writing
including how to get published, and how to motivate one’s self to write.
The
Guardian: Higher Education Network
Journal editors share their advice on
how to structure a paper, write a cover letter – and deal with awkward feedback
from reviewers. A must read.
Tanya
Golash-Boza, Associate Professor at University of California
Research teaches us strategies to settle into being a prolific
writer. How can you motivate yourself to write more?
6. Leadership insights
Meghan
M. Biro in Forbes magazine
Why do you admire particular leaders?
Why might people admire you as a leader? Biro argues that the most admired
leaders reach people on emotional levels. Is this a characteristic that you show?
David
Gooblar, PedagogyUnbound.com
This is an example of how opening up
to a classroom (reaching people with emotional levels) has pedagogical power.
Why is this in the leadership section? We suggest that opening up may have the
power for other benefits than pedagogy, how might opening up strengthen your leadership?
7. Classifieds
Job vacancies:
The
Faculty of Science is recruiting for a Lecturer in Higher Education Learning
Design to play a key role in the development of students’ future focussed
graduate capabilities and professional identities.
Closing date
for applicants is 9:00am on Thursday 26th March.
Applications are
invited for two full time permanent positions at the Lecturer/Senior Lecturer
level (equivalent to Assistant/Associate Professor in the USA system) in
Mathematics Education within the Department of Mathematics at The University of
Auckland, New Zealand. One of the appointments will be made at Lecturer Level,
the other may be at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer.
Closing date for applicants is Wednesday 15th April.