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Every year the Faculty recognises outstanding educators for their inspirational work with the Faculty Teaching Awards. This year the Faculty is proud to recognize Associate Professor Christine Howitt and Professor Marnie O’Neill for their excellence in teaching.

The awards are determined against national criteria set by the Office for Learning and Teaching. The awards also directly reflect student perspectives, as students are the ones who initially nominate exceptional teachers for the awards.

‘Receiving this award has been a small, yet valuable, personal treasure. Having students acknowledge my teaching, and how it has assisted their learning, reaffirmed the place of creativity, constructivism and challenge in education’ said Christine.

Marnie spoke of her passion for research supervision and the relationship that forms between supervisor and student over time. ‘One of the things I really enjoy is that first contact with research students, because they come with their own ideas. Helping them to realise those ideas as a research project without taking away their ownership I find really exciting – it’s like being offered a gift every time,’ she said.

Congratulations to Christine and Marnie!

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Martin Swann (Faculty of Education)  (+61 8)  6488 2443