Performance and career planning

Performance and career planning

The framework can be used by academic staff to assess and reflect on the quality of their teaching and to guide professional and personal development. The framework suggests examples of standards of achievement and evidence that signal expected levels of performance at each career level. This makes the framework a helpful tool for performance and career planning in that it can serve as a guide for sourcing and collecting evidence to substantiate professional expertise in the performance appraisal review process or to support an application for promotion.

This framework reflects the criteria and expectations of many Australian universities; however, it should be used only as a guide and source of information and resources. Each university will have its own criteria, expectations and standards of achievement at each promotional level and academic staff should seek out their university’s teaching criteria, standards and requirements.

We have organised the indicative standards by promotional level, so that all of the standards associated with a promotional level can be viewed and downloaded in one document. Alternatively the indicative standards can be viewed by criteria to show the development of standards across promotional levels.

Most universities require that a teaching portfolio summarising individual career progress, contribution, achievement and accomplishment be submitted to substantiate professional expertise in the performance appraisal review process or to support an application for promotion. While the content and formatting requirements of each institution will differ, we have provided links to some general guides to assist in the development of a teaching portfolio.