Building partnerships to increase engagement: A case study from the Health & Physical Education degree
Abstract
Student engagement is critical to success at university and has been linked to retention (Kahu et al. 2019). One way of increasing student engagement is through building partnerships. Pivotal partnerships relating to the Health & Physical Education (HPE) degree at the University of Notre Dame are student-student, staff-student, student-industry. A variety of strategies are used to create these partnerships, beginning in first year and continuing throughout the degree. This presentation will share the means by which we create these partnerships, outline some of successes from these practises and also some of the challenges we have faced and finally, we will examine the impact this can have on engagement and retention. This project has implications for other programs and schools in the university; it is hoped they may benefit from our insights and be motivated to share their own experiences of developing partnerships and the impact on student engagement and retention.
Keywords: Partnership, engagement, success
Theme
Developing purposeful partnerships
Presenter Bio
Mark Clayden
Mark has worked in schools for the past 20 years in a variety of academic and pastoral roles in secondary schools in both the Government and Catholic systems. He has been nominated twice for the excellence in teaching awards in Western Australia.
Andrew Boxsell
Andrew has completed his first year in tertiary education teaching into the Discipline for Health and Physical Education. Andrew has 20 years experience working in both primary and secondary schools in Australia, England and the United States of America as both a teacher and in pastoral care.
Benjamin Piggott
Ben has over 10 years teaching experience in schools working in Queensland, WA and the UK. He has previously been awarded a VC Award for Teaching Excellence. Ben is the current Head of Discipline for Health and Physical Education.
Presentation Type
Event
Location
Zoom session commences 10am AWST/12 noon AEST
Start Date
21-9-2022 11:16 AM
End Date
21-9-2022 11:23 AM
Building partnerships to increase engagement: A case study from the Health & Physical Education degree
Zoom session commences 10am AWST/12 noon AEST
Student engagement is critical to success at university and has been linked to retention (Kahu et al. 2019). One way of increasing student engagement is through building partnerships. Pivotal partnerships relating to the Health & Physical Education (HPE) degree at the University of Notre Dame are student-student, staff-student, student-industry. A variety of strategies are used to create these partnerships, beginning in first year and continuing throughout the degree. This presentation will share the means by which we create these partnerships, outline some of successes from these practises and also some of the challenges we have faced and finally, we will examine the impact this can have on engagement and retention. This project has implications for other programs and schools in the university; it is hoped they may benefit from our insights and be motivated to share their own experiences of developing partnerships and the impact on student engagement and retention.
Keywords: Partnership, engagement, success