Services

 

The Office of Teaching and Learning is dedicated to supporting faculty seeking to strengthen their teaching practice.  Toward that end, the Director of Teaching and Learning and the Teaching Fellows offer the following services to all full and part-time faculty members:

Ø    The DTL and Fellows are available to meet with departments, programs and individual faculty members to learn their teaching concerns and interests and learn how better to serve them.  

Ø    The Office of Teaching and Learning develops and sponsors programming designed to address the teaching and learning needs and interests of full and part-time faculty.  Programming includes: 

·        Workshops

·        Speakers

·        Discussion groups 

Ø    The DTL and Fellows are available to work one-on-one with faculty members seeking to strengthen and reflect on their own teaching.  This includes (but is not limited to)

·        Individual Teaching Consultation [below]

·        Assistance with syllabus, assignment, and course design. 

 

Individual Teaching Consultation


Individual Teaching Consultation provides instructors with the opportunity to improve teaching by working intensively with the DTL or one of the teaching fellows in a confidential and supportive environment.  Together, the faculty member and DTL or teaching fellow will identify teaching strengths, areas that might merit attention, and develop strategies for positive change.

Faculty can choose from two types of consultation:

  1. Collaborative observation.  This involves a pre-observation conference, descriptive observation notes taken during a class visit, and post-observation conference. 

  2. Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID).  Together, the instructor and the DTL or teaching fellow develop a questionnaire for the class interview, which is conducted by the DTL or teaching fellow.  (The interview takes at least 30 minutes of class time).   When the interview has been completed, the DTL or teaching fellow organizes the information and shares it with the faculty member in a post-observation conference. 

 

Please contact Ann Brunjes or Phyllis Gimbel if you are interested in learning more about any of these services or if you want to make an appointment for an individual teaching consultation. 

 

 

 

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 DTL 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: July 30, 2009