Evidence of Teaching – External Perspective

Instructional Design Consult: Instructional designers will meet and discuss any teaching related issue with faculty, below is a list of common topics.

  • Course design
  • Course material
  • Student learning outcomes 
  • LMS layout
  • Syllabus design and tone
  • Assessment strategies

CITL Teaching Observations: CITL staff can observe your teaching and provide feedback on topics such as:

  • Teaching practices
  • Student/instructor interactions
  • Active learning implementation
  • Classroom culture

Validated Observations Tools have been adopted by some departments. Popular examples include:

Faculty Peer Observations (coming soon!) Peer observations can provide formative constructive feedback of your teaching independent of content knowledge.

Departmental Peer Evaluation*

Scholarship. Research and dissemination of education and teaching related scholarship such as:

  • Action research
  • Scholarship of teaching & learning (SoTL)
  • Discipline-based education research (DBER)

Contribution to Education

  • Case studies
  • Publication of teaching materials

Educational Development

  • Workshops
  • Communities of practice/learning communities
  • Presentation at educational meetings
  • Service on teaching committees or as teaching mentors

References

Hora, M. T., Oleson, A., & Ferrare, J. J. (2013). Teaching dimensions observation protocol (TDOP) user’s manual. Madison: Wisconsin Center for Education Research.

Sawada, D., Piburn, M.,  Judson, E.,  Turley, J., Falconer, K.,  Benford, R., & Bloom, I. (2002). Measuring reform practices in science and mathematics classrooms: The Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol. School Science and Mathematics. 102. 245 – 253. 10.1111/j.1949-8594.2002.tb17883.x.

Smith, M. K., Jones, F. H., Gilbert, S. L., & Wieman, C. E. (2013). The Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM (COPUS): A new instrument to characterize university STEM classroom practices. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 12(4), 618-627.