Teaching Excellence Awards 2022

Julia Caldicott is an inspiring academic who fosters students’ personal and professional development in their work Integrated Learning (WIL) units. Utilising contemporary research and industry insights, Julia designs curricula so students grow in confidence prior to, and during, their industry internship placements.

Patrick Gillett shows excellent teaching in the Southern Cross Model by promoting educational technologies that enable effective student engagement (e.g. VoiceThread). He also exemplifies the teaching/research nexus through scholarship on teaching presence and assessment feedback.

Kyle Bennett led a team to redesign and redevelop the honours course in Health, ensuring the scaffolding of essential research capability and ensure the timely completion. The course design has sparked interest across the University. His leadership of an inexperienced course team was described by the Centre for Teaching and Learning as exemplary.

Dylan Poulus’s enthusiasm is absolutely contagious. Since arriving at Southern Cross, Dylan has received consistently high scores for his teaching and truly outstanding qualitative feedback from students. His dedication to allowing his students to achieve their full potential through contemporary and engaging teaching approaches makes him a valuable asset to the Faculty and this University.

Adam Fletcher always receives extremely good student feedback. Focusing on engaging students, he drives teaching innovation in programming and user experience across the Faculty. With a research background in IT education, Adam promotes IT careers to school students through hands-on workshops, and is a great Southern Cross representative.

Katie Hotko consistently motivates students and achieves outstanding student feedback in creative and arts education. Katie is highly reflective of her teaching practice. She constantly innovates to ensure optimal student learning outcomes. Her approach to interactive online learning is an inspiration to students and colleagues.

Johanna Nieuwoudt shows outstanding ability to design innovative and inclusive curriculum that engages and inspires students in their learning. She demonstrates strong leadership ensuring the implementation of quality learning materials and resources across pathway programs.

Kerrie Stimpson is dedicated and committed to making maths accessible, engaging and relevant to novice, non-traditional students. She demonstrates a high level of innovation and creativity in her curriculum design and pedagogy that encourages students in their maths learning to positive impact.

Kylie Day has consistently delivered high-quality teaching across all of her Gnibi units in 2022. Kylie taught new units in the new Southern Cross Model format at the same time as coming to grips with how to develop new delivery methods. While completing her postgraduate research studies, Kylie has consistently achieved some of Gnibi’s highest feedback scores in 2022.