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Premium Teaching Open Lecture to focus on the joys and challenges of the profession

For Release Upon Receipt - October 24, 2013

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – On Friday November 29, The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine and Guardian Life of the Caribbean Ltd presents the Premium Open Lecture 2013. This year’s lecture features a presentation by Dr Todd Zakrajsek of the Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina titled "Teaching: Joys and Challenges of the Greatest Profession" and kicks off at the Daaga Auditorium from 5.30pm.

Dr Todd Zakrajsek is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of fellowship programmes in the Department of Family Medicine, and also the Executive Director of the Academy of Educators in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina. Dr.  Zakrajsek has started or reconfigured three centres for faculty support at three different institutions, and has also taught as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Southern Oregon State University. He currently directs four national conferences on college and university teaching and learning and sits on two educationally related boards. Dr.  Zakrajsek also serves on several editorial boards of journals in the area of teaching and learning. He has published widely in this field, his most recent publication being a book co-authored with Terry Doyle: The New Science of Learning (2013).

The Premium Open Lecture Series on learning and teaching in higher education is one of the major events coming out of the University’s partnership with Guardian Life of the Caribbean Ltd celebrating teaching excellence at The UWI. Commandeered by UWI’s Instructional Development Unit (IDU), the partnership began in 1998 and has since produced two avenues through which teaching excellence is highlighted. This lecture series and the flagship Premium Teaching Awards take place interchangeably every other year.

The Instructional Development Unit (IDU) of The UWI is committed to the enhancement of high quality teaching by the University lecturers through a wide range of services, programmes and activities relevant to effective andragogy so that students can learn and attain a high standard of performance. As part of its thrust to highlight and recognise effective teaching, the IDU collaborates with its corporate partner, Guardian Life of the Caribbean Limited, to elevate the status of teaching at The UWI St. Augustine.

For more information, please contact the Centre for Teaching and Learning at 662-2002 ext. 82611 or 224-3736, or email cetl@sta.uwi.edu.

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

 

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)

 

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