Teaching awards
- (2009) Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Award for Teaching Excellence.
- (2008) Promoted to Associate Professor for Outstanding Achievements in Teaching and Service.
- (2008) Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) Pearson Education Teacher Educator of the Year Award.
- (2008) Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Citation: For distinctive and sustained leadership in the design and implementation of innovative teaching to enable teachers to transform learning with information and communication technologies. - (2008) Fellow of the Australian College of Educators (FACE)
Citation: For an outstanding and distinctive contribution to teacher education, particularly through his leadership and research in ICT, eLearning and Technology Education. - (2006) Faculty of Education Learning and Teaching Citation
Citation: In designing a course for tomorrow’s teachers to effectively use ICT, an innovative approach using an ePortfolio process was implemented. Student learning was enhanced through the use of ICT which theorised the use of ICT for assessment for learning whereby students developed rich personal stories of deep learning using the ICT as a means of collecting, selecting, reflecting, directing, celebrating and publishing their stories of learning with ICT. The students? ePortfolios provided transformational stories of teaching and learning. - (2003) Gold Coast Honours Award for services to Education in the Gold Coast community awarded by the Gold Coast City Council and the Gold Coast Bulletin.
- (2002) Griffith University Teaching Excellence Award Beginning Teacher
Citation: Dr Glenn Finger’s deep level of commitment to teaching, his student centred teaching style and sophisticated approach to best practice are principal features of his important contribution to teaching and learning at Griffith.
Celebrating teaching
The GIHE hosts Griffith's annual program of Celebrating Teaching Seminars. The seminars aim to provide staff with opportunities to learn about excellent practice in learning and teaching undertaken by colleagues from Griffith and other institutions. Celebrating Teaching Seminars frequently feature presentations by staff who are winners of University and Australian Learning and Teaching Council learning and teaching awards, as well as outcomes of learning and teaching grants and research.
Assessment for learning: use of eportfolios in teacher education
The following video is an excerpt from the Celebrating Teaching Seminar presentation provided by Professor Glenn Finger, a recipient of institutional and national teaching awards.