The interactive discussion of TATALing in this dinner dialogue offers a glimpse into a TATAL program and its impact on academic and professional staff development.
The full TATAL programs are commenced each year at the HERDSA conference (including the 2014 HERDSA Conference in Hong Kong), providing academics and professionals who support student learning with special opportunities to share, reflect and review the values and beliefs underlying their approach to teaching and learning. Through a collaborative workshop, each TATAL participant is supported to develop their own teaching and learning philosophy statement then later a teaching portfolio.
As pointed out by a 2011 HERDSA TATAL participant, the TATAL programs are beneficial to academics and professionals who are at the early, mid or later stages of their careers. There are plenty of opportunities to mentor and be mentored, to facilitate and be facilitated, to learn and to teach. The mixture of informality and formality keeps the group on an even keel and ensures we mix our interest in each other with our interest in a variety of issues related to good learning and teaching in the higher education sector.
Date: Friday, 1 December 2017
Time: 7:00-9:00pm
Venue: City Top Restaurant, 9/F Amenities Building, City University of Hong Kong
Enquiry and Registration: herdsa.hk@gmail.com
Speaker biography
Robert Kennelly
Robert Kennelly is an Adjunct at the University of Canberra, Australia and has a B.A. Arts (Admin) Canberra 1994 and a Masters of Arts (HigherEducation), UNSW 2001. He is a Pioneer HERDSA Fellow and a life member. He was a member of HERDSA Executive from 2006 to 2012 where he contributed to the HERDSA Fellowship and membership committees.
Robert taught briefly in Hong Kong with the University of Canberra. He has been part of a team of colleagues across the Canberra university sector which has re-invigorated the HERDSA Branch of the ACT region with seminars and a program called TATAL (Talking about teaching and Learning). Robert, Coralie McCormack and others are currently facilitating seven groups of academics from across the universities in Australia and New Zealand in collaborative reflective practice.