Exploring teaching excellence - Unitec | MIT Learning and Teaching Symposium 2025
An unmissable event for anyone keen to help shape up a new teaching excellence standards framework for Tāmaki Institute of Technology and Polytechnic (ITP's). You’ll experience excellent teaching and inspiring innovations, as we share ideas and insights about what excellent teaching should look like for a complex future, and how to embody it in a framework of standards. Register now.
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What does “teaching excellence” look like in your discipline? For your learners, for your industry or profession? Are there “generic” characteristics of teaching excellence? Does the context have a role to play? Come and share!
We have the chance to co-create a new framework of teaching excellence standards for Tāmaki ITPs, which will support institutional processes such as professional development and promotion, from 2026.
The annual regional Learning and Teaching Symposium on 4 July is the first stage of bringing stakeholders together to share ideas. Come along, get behind this kaupapa, and share your thoughts! We’ll also showcase excellent practice and leading future-oriented initiatives.
Overview
This year’s symposium invites participants to explore and help co-construct our take on teaching excellence in vocational education for the Tāmaki region.
As institutes serving a diverse region and complex future, our goal is to develop teaching excellence standards that reflect the Tāmaki context, our learners’ needs, and our ongoing commitment to transformative education.
What you will gain
The symposium will serve as a key milestone for Unitec and MIT in creating a framework of teaching excellence standards during 2025, enabling you to:
- Contribute directly to the development of the 2026 teaching excellence framework.
- Reflect on what excellence in teaching looks like in your own practice/s and disciplines.
- Engage with colleagues across institutions to build consensus and collective insight.
- Gain insights into existing excellent teaching and innovations.
Event information
Date and time: Friday 4 July 2025 from 10am to 4pm. Arrive early for carparking, lunch/coffee from The Hub/Te Puna, registration and catching up with colleagues.
Location: Collaborative space 183-1104, Unitec Mt Albert campus.
Agenda: Full agenda to be confirmed.
Programme
- A keynote panel of award-winning teachers from around the motu. Teaching excellence award winners will reflect on teaching excellence from their points of view.
- Teaching excellence showcase. Excellent kaiako present elements of their practice.
- Co-creating teaching excellence. Vital collaborative discussion among all attendees on what matters most for teaching excellence, and mapping how it could look as a framework.
- Leading / innovating with excellence – AI Ako Agents: a demo of early agent development built to support enhanced learning and teaching, what students thought, and highlights of the nursing collaborative project.
- Inclusive Learning Management System (LMS) design. Enhancing Mātauranga Māori elements of Unitec’s Digital Learning Standards.
Note: More programme details will be added as they are finalised.
