Professional learning for teaching
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- Professional Learning Series
- Calendar
- Core development
- Extended development
- Professional learning for teaching for specific roles
- Knowledge hubs and journals
- See also
Professional Learning Series
The TeachWell Professional Learning Series introduces teachers to pedagogies and teaching strategies that support the TeachWell Framework, enhance the student experience, and provide a pathway for career progression.
Calendar
Signposting professional development events for staff at the University of Auckland.
Core development
Career and development
The Staff Intranet features information for teachers who aspire to progress as academic leaders, the continuation and promotion process, Academic Development and Performance Review (ADPR), managing workload, facilitating communities of practice, and more.
Teaching Well: Foundations of Learning and Teaching
Teaching Well: Foundations of Learning and Teaching (formerly Teaching Catalyst) is designed to support new teachers by providing them with key principles of effective university teaching and learning. It covers strategies for good course design, effective assessment approaches, and techniques to engage students in learning.
The new format offers a flexible, modular approach, delivered in-person over a two-day intensive period.
Enrolments are available through Hono Learning.
Enrol for Teaching Well: Foundations of Learning and Teaching
Peer review of teaching
To support an application for continuation and promotion, there is an expectation that all academic staff will have their teaching formally observed at least once in the first two years at the University, and that all teachers engage in regular informal observation of colleagues and have their own teaching observed throughout their career.
Our guide for peer review of teaching describes the process and provides suggestions for having your teaching reviewed.
Extended development
Academic leadership programmes
Organisational Development runs a number of programmes designed for current and emerging academic leaders in the areas of:
- Academic leadership development
- Women in leadership
- Mentoring and coaching
- New Academic Heads and Associate Deans
- And more
The programmes aim to inspire discussions and thought leadership amongst cohorts of academic leaders.
HEA fellowships
Higher Education Accreditation Fellowships offer academics the chance to improve teaching skills, gain recognition for teaching excellence, network with peers, and enhance career prospects. Staff are encouraged to apply for HEA fellowships to showcase their achievements and commitment to delivering high-quality education.
HEA Helper AdvanceHE resources
Professional learning for teaching for specific roles
UoA Tutoring Central
This training resource helps Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), Teaching Assistants (TAs), Tutors, and anyone with a teaching support role, get up to speed with what it means to be an effective tutor.
Graduate Teaching Assistants
For staff with a teaching support role, these three modules will help you gain confidence in teaching for active learning, group work, and contested spaces.
Research Hub
The Research Hub connects staff with learning opportunities, policy and procedures, and support services to help you with your research endeavours.
Check out what development opportunities are available by launching the Researcher Development Opportunities Calendar.
Leadership in research and academia
The Research Hub provides opportunities for developing your leadership in research and academia. Themes include people management, and interpersonal and academic leadership.
Leadership in research and academia
Programme director and major/specialisation leader
Programme directors and major/specialisation leaders help to improve the performance and quality of our academic programmes. Learn more about these roles and the available support.
Supervising research candidates
Thinking about supervising research candidates?
The Supervisor Accreditation page will provide you with the information you need to get started, including Doctoral Supervision Policy and Procedures.
Visit and bookmark the Supervision Hub for key resources, accreditation information, development opportunities, guides, checklists and more.
Log in using: username@uoa.auckland.ac.nz
Academic Career Advancement Programme (ACAP) for doctoral candidates
The Academic Career Advancement Programme (ACAP) allows doctoral candidates to explore key aspects of academic life, build interdisciplinary relationships with academics across the University, and get a head start in the academic job market. ACAP has two major elements: orientation morning, and regular seminars.
Academic Career Advancement Programme
Faculty of Medical Health Sciences staff
FMHS staff interested in learning about health sciences e-learning might consider enrolling in CLINED 717: Advanced E-Learning in Clinical Education. This wholly online 15-point course is offered in Semester Two each year. The course can be taken as a stand-alone Certificate of Proficiency and you could be eligible for a tuition fee waiver.
Knowledge hubs and journals
Hubs
The Advance HE Knowledge Hub is a collection of thousands of higher education resources covering a wide range of topics. Search on a theme that’s relevant to you.
The Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia publishes seven journals annually and hosts symposiums, webinars and an annual conference.
JISC is a digital data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research and innovation.
Learn Higher provides free learning and teaching resources for staff in higher education.
Journals
Staff will have access to some of these journals via our institutional login, others will require you to register. Subscribe to a journal that interests you:
- Active Learning in Higher Education
- Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
- Educational Theory
- Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research
- Higher Education Quarterly
- Innovate Higher Education
- Innovations in Education and Teaching International (IETI)
- International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- International Journal of Learning and Teaching
- Journal of Further and Higher Education
- Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
- Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- New Directions for Teaching and Learning
On this page
- Core development
- Extended development
- Professional learning for teaching for specific roles
- Knowledge hubs and journals
See also…
Page updated 10/03/2026 (added HERDSA to Hubs)