Airline and Dispatch Operations, Spring 2025
Communications for Aviation Professionals, Spring 2025
Cooperative Work Experience, Spring 2025
Cooperative Work Experience, Spring 2025
Cooperative Work Experience, Spring 2025
This award was given to faculty who demonstrated exceptional practices in both delivery and design categories. As part of the award process, I had to compile and put forward a class that I felt exemplified the engaging and effective teaching practices that I used in my classes. This award was particularly rewarding for me, as it was awarded to me in my second year at UVU, for a course that I had just refreshed and updated the previous summer (AVSC 2160 Aviation Law, now AVSC 4160 Aviation Law). What is interesting to me is that I feel my delivery has gotten better since receiving this award. Particularly after COVID, the delivery of courses has had to change so much, since the expectations from students have probably been irrevocably changed as a result of their experience during the pandemic. I have tried changes such as a somewhat “high flex” modality with a live stream done in conjunction with a face-to-face session for my face-to-face classes or other modifications such as weekly recorded video announcements and extra credit Microsoft Teams meetings for asynchronous online classes.
The HEA Fellowship is awarded to faculty that have demonstrated significant principles across 3 key areas of concentration when it comes to pedagogical and course design practices. Those three areas are activity, knowledge, and professional values, which must be satisfied within a peer-reviewed application process wherein the applicant must reflect and dissect their own teaching practices. This was invaluable to me since, when I applied in the Summer of 2019, I had been teaching at UVU for a year, and it was a good point to look into my teaching practices and to identify not only my strengths but also my weaknesses that could be improved upon. Areas that I identified through my own self-reflection of my courses and teaching practice include the lack of integration of my own experience and research into the courses I teach, as well as a renewed focus on the ethical issues that are woven into my pedagogy and classes.
From UVU OTL_
The Higher Education Academy (HEA)is an international, non-profit organization that promotes teaching excellence in higher education. HEA is a subsidiary of UK-based Advance HE. There are more than 150,000 HEA fellows in the world. UVU is the first American institution to be accredited by the HEA to offer fellowship recognition to faculty, administrators, and staff supporting learning. Fellowships are earned through written reflection and interaction with a HEA Mentor to demonstrate how one’s teaching/supporting learning practices fulfill the dimensions of the UK Professional Standards Framework (PSF). The PSF is the heart of the Higher Education Academy fellowship recognition program. This internationally recognized articulation of the necessary actions, values, and knowledge for effective teaching/supporting learning provides the framework for peer dialogue and personal reflection of practices.
