Celebrating learning and teaching - congratulations

On Friday 27th May, we celebrated Learning and Teaching at JCU with the announcement and presentation of the annual JCU staff citations for outstanding contributions to student learning; and the announcement of the annual learning and teaching grant recipients.

It is with great pleasure that I can share the news that two staff members from our College were recognised with prestigious citations, Ms Karyn Bentley and Dr Kerry Anne McBain; and that six teams across the College were successful with grant applications.

In addition to receiving a JCU citation, Ms Bentley was also announced as the recipient of the MOST OUTSTANDING contribution to student learning at JCU for 2016.

The details of the citations and the learning and teaching grant teams are outlined below; please join me in congratulating our learning and teaching leaders.

College of Healthcare Sciences JCU Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning award recipients 2016

Ms Karyn Bentley, Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition
For inspiring midwifery students to form their own personal philosophy of care.
In midwifery practice, a philosophical framework for woman centered care is paramount to ensuring that the healthcare environment remains one that is focused on "working with" people. Through integrated learning approaches using guided reflection and innovative activities such as art, Ms Bentley inspires and motivates midwifery students to develop their personal philosophy of care. This philosophy-based approach to student learning has been recognised as outstanding by students, peers, graduates and industry.

Dr Kerry Anne McBain, Psychology
Engaging, empowering and inspiring students of the tropics by creating a synergy between the theoretical foundations of psychological practice and real world community based application.
High levels of student satisfaction, recognition from peers, the institution, and community partners attest to the success of my teaching philosophy over the past fourteen years.  Delivering high quality curriculum design, grounded in best practice, informed by social and global interactions, and contextualised by the community in which our graduates live and work fosters professional expertise, intellectual curiosity, and the provision of services which reflect the needs of people and places of the tropics.

College of Healthcare Sciences Learning and Teaching Grant recipients 2016

Assessment reform

• Karyn Bentley, Elspeth Hillman & Tanya Langtree - BNSc Episode of Care PEP Assessment

Curriculum design

• Marie Bodak, Adele Baldwin, Maria Hennessy, Stephen Anderson, Bronwyn Mathieson, Kellie Johns - Gifting learning: building authentic learning through the lived experience of a carer.
• Jackie Eagers, Kerry Garbutt, Joanna Murray, Rebecca Sealey (collaborator) - Kick‐starting career development learning with first year simulation modules for Occupational Therapy practice.
• Elspeth Hillman, Tanya Langtree, Lyn Gwynne, Tamlyn Brice, Karyn Bentley, Marie McAuliffe, Ian Johnson, Stephen Andersen, Karen Alsop - Augmenting nursing and midwifery students’ therapeutic intervention acquisition with technology-enhanced learning.
• Anne Jones, Moira Smith, Carol Flavell - Use of branching case studies to develop clinical reasoning in physiotherapy students prior to attending clinical placements.
• Trish Wielandt, Jessie Wilson, Jae Hyun-Kim, Anne Jones - Perceptions of rural and remote practice: A photovoice project.