Services Offered by the Office of Teaching and Learning

In addition to a range of grant programs and the Teacher-Scholar Summer Institute, the Office of Teaching and Learning offers a range of programming and consultation services for individual faculty, departments and programs.  All programming and consultation services are open to both full and part-time faculty.

Teaching Consultation

Teaching and Learning staff (the director and faculty fellows) are available to work one-on-one with faculty members seeking to strength and reflect on their own teaching practice.  We offer both individual teaching consultations and small group instructional diagnosis (SGID), and faculty may choose to take advantage of both.

1. Individual teaching consultation consists of a class observation conducted by a member of the OTL staff.  The instructor meets with a staff member in a pre-observation meeting; the staff member observes the course; and the staff member and the faculty member meet for a post-observation conversation.

2. Small group instructional diagnosis (SGID) is another name for a focus group, or interview, with your students, conducted by the staff member.  Together, the instructor and the staff member develop a questionnaire for the class interview; the interview itself takes at least 30 minutes of class time.  When the interview has been completed, the staff member organizes the information and shares it with the faculty member in a post-observation conference.

3. Office of Teaching and Learning staff are also available to talk about syllabus and assignment design, classroom management, assessment . . . all the issues that confront new and experienced teachers at BSU. 

Programming

Information on faculty development programming sponsored wholly or in part by the Office of Teaching and Learning is available on the faculty development calendar (updated weekly) and the Office of Teaching and Learning semester events pages.  Visit the Fall 2011 Development Events page for upcoming workshop information.

To set up an appointment for teaching consultation or for additional information about the Office of Teaching and Learning, contact Ann Brunjes, OTL Director

 

Confidentiality statement:  Consultations take place only at the invitation of the faculty member.  Any written records generated during the consultation are held in complete confidence and are returned to the faculty member at the close of the consultation.  At no time are interview results supplied by the director or any person associated with the Teaching and Learning Office for use in personnel decisions.   In addition, no conversation about the consultation or any other aspect of an instructor's teaching may occur with anyone other than the faculty member. 

 

Last Modified: October 6, 2011