Katherine Lindsay

TL;DR: In the rapidly changing global higher education sector, greater attention is being paid to the quality of university teaching However, academics have traditionally not received formal teacher training The peer-assisted teaching programme reported on in this paper provides a structured yet flexible approach for peers to assist each other in reinvigorating and refining their teaching practice.

TL;DR: An assessment of how effectively distributed leadership was enabled at five Australian institutions implementing a collaborative teaching quality development scheme called the Peer Assisted Teaching Scheme found that the Scheme is highly consistent with the distributed leadership benchmarks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors critique the dichotomy between the legal regulation of disability discrimination in Australia, particularly in the State of New South Wales, and inclusion policy as espoused by public education authorities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on initiatives implemented at the Newcastle Law School in 2012 designed to reduce performance anxiety around a compulsory first year mooting assessment, and the implementation of a self-management curriculum underpinned by the fruits of research in self-determination theory in 2013.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of peer observation of teaching undertaken at Australian universities demonstrates that observation instruments and protocols typically do not explicitly afford alignment of peers' observations with teachers' developmental goals.