A BEST PRACTICES MANUAL IN TEACHING

In the scope of the quality culture developed at IST throughout the last decade, the development of an Integrated Quality Assurance System for IST (SiquIST) was initiated. One of SiquIST steps was the implementation of QUC (a Course Unit Quality Assurance System), within which the inventory and description of best practices reported by teachers was realized. Inventory of the practices criteria were later defined in order to categorize and validate innovative best practices to be disseminated inside IST. In the process, 6 teaching profiles were identified. The path to the Best Practices Manual in Teaching has not always been linear, teaching practices definitions seem to struggle with the held practices and the way how teachers at IST perceive their own teaching practices, but it is a path worth pursuing and a valuable guideline for higher education teachers.