Modify Your Teaching Approach

Meet with a Teaching Enhancement Associate
CTL consultants work with faculty members to improve their teaching and to enhance student learning. Faculty members are encouraged to maintain periodic communication with the CTL consultant and to continue to enhance their teaching.

All consultations, records, results, and recommendations are confidential. However, records of participation in CTL events are kept and may be shared with department chairs or administrators.

The consultation process is to be used to help instructors improve or enhance their teaching skills. Therefore, the services of the unit are not to be used for evaluation or promotion and tenure decisions.

Teaching Enhancement Associates can collaborate with individual instructors or groups of instructors on enhancing any teaching skill, including:

• Designing a course
• Preparing a syllabus
• Incorporating cooperative and active learning strategies
• Using technology appropriately
• Creating assessments
• Devising effective grading schemes
• Interacting with students

Instructors may request any or all of the following formats as part of the consultation process:

• Classroom observation
  After a preliminary consultation to identify needs, concerns, and instructional objectives, instructors may request observation of a class by a teaching consultant, who will prepare a confidential description of the instructor's classroom strengths, as well as suggestions for improving student learning.
• Classroom videotaping
  Instructors may also arrange to have a prepared segment of their teaching or an entire class period videotaped. Videotapes may be viewed exclusively by the instructor (a checklist of recommended teaching behaviors is available for self-critiquing) or with a teaching consultant, who will provide a confidential report detailing teaching strengths and suggestions for improving student learning.
• Teaching Assessment by Students (TABS)
  Instructors may request that the interim assessment TABS be administered around mid-semester of any term to help identify ways an instructor can increase student learning. Support in interpreting the results of SUSSAI and SPOT is also available. TABS may also be administered as a survey using the Blackboard Survey tool.

More on the Teaching Enhancement Consultation Process (136 Kb)

For more information or to schedule a consultation, contact CTL Staff, 850/644-8004.

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