Modify Your Teaching Approach

Analyze SPOT Scores

• Begin your teaching improvement plan by looking at your course evaluations (SPOT scores.) What do the students indicate your weaknesses are? What are your strengths? (It is important to look at both because you can build on your strengths to help with weaknesses.) Are you good at remembering student names? Do you make yourself accessible to students? Do you organize your classroom activities around clear objectives? There are lots of things that teachers do that help students learn, and there is no single reason, or solution, for instructional problems, so the solution may not be immediately apparent.
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• Overall improvements can be made by concentrating on two or three of the lowest scoring items. CTL staff have developed a PDF document outlining strategies for using student ratings on course evaluations to improve teaching.
  
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