Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: A competency framework in teaching and learning for STEM educators: Design challenges and application

This abductive workshop aims to explore the design parameters of a teaching and learning competency framework for STEM educators. In particular it will seek to ideate core and discipline-specific teaching and learning competencies that are most valued. The workshop’s objectives are to brainstorm the teaching and learning competencies most relevant to STEM and articulate how these competencies are measured; map core and discipline-specific teaching and learning competencies to professional development activities most valued by STEM educators and; conceptualise the key components of the framework to enhance its acceptance and traction.