Education Culture & Career
Education and Research often go hand in hand in Academic careers. However, the way we value, reward and recognise Education might differ from Research. A good teaching culture asks for good educational leadership by all.
Have a look at the different references to (HR)documents, podcasts, policies and research papers related to the education culture & career.
TU Delft, like Universities across the world, is striving for an academic culture that celebrates, rewards and supports university teaching achievement.
A leading person in the international movement in the establishment of an academic culture that celebrates, rewards and supports university teaching achievement is Dr. Ruth Graham who besides from designing a framework for Advancing Teaching, also launched the Teaching Culture survey that shines a spotlight on the culture and status of teaching in higher education at institutions allover the world.
How come we say ‘yes’ when we are asked to peer-review an article for Elsevier - invest our time and energy in an organisation for which we have to pay to return the favour, that is reading their articles; but we say ‘no’ when we are asked to peer-review a colleague lecturer within our own organisation that will make our own teaching and learning practice better. The ‘why?’ behind this might be the central question to the needed cultural change in our community and organisation.
TU Delft Faculty Department Head
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Ruth Graham has led a ground-breaking study, commissioned by the Royal Academy of Engineering, to develop a Framework that enables universities to define and evaluate teaching achievement at each stage of the academic career ladder. This framework was a great inspiration for the TU Delft “Guide to career path education”. A document that sets out the career paths with an emphasis on teaching for Associate Professors and Full Professors and provides guidelines to identify and discuss staff with a teaching profile, and stimulate a development path with the emphasis on teaching
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In 2019 Ruth Graham launched the Teaching Culture Survey that shines a spotlight on the culture and status of teaching in higher education. The TU Delft, Sponsored by 4TU.CEE, joined this survey in 2019 as well as in 2022 enabling the TU Delft to capture and track the culture and status of teaching across the academic community and compare findings with global peers.
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It has been a long-held wish among the Dutch academic community to assess the performance of scientific staff differently. In line with the national position paper Room for everyone's talent and TU Delft’s Impact for a Better Society strategy, the TU Delft has now formulated a perspective on the recognition and rewards of academics. 4TUCEE added six recommendations to this perspective for (more) visible success in the workplace.
The Recognition & Rewards programme also inititated the Kick-start your Teaching Programme led by the Teaching Academy
Teaching is one of our main responsibilities as a university and thus a very important topic within the R&D conversation and in the academic career paths.
There are many aspects to teaching; for instance teaching as a skill, coaching and guidance of colleagues, leadership roles in education. To evidence the teaching achievements of university teachers we need to go beyond the number of students a colleague supervises, the number of courses a colleague is involved in, and the UTQ/BKO requirement. We need to look at the broader spheres of influence and impact.
TU Delft has created a guidance document laying out possible career paths for Associate Professor (UHD) and Full Professor (HL) with an emphasis on teaching. This guidance document sets out the career paths to provide guidelines to identify and discuss with staff with a teaching profile and stimulate a development path.
