Documentation:CTLT Resources/Selected TL Topics Responding to Information from Evaluations of Teaching

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Responding to Information from Evaluations of Teaching

How should Deans, Directors, and Heads respond when they learn about excellent teaching or unsatisfactory teaching? The following are suggestions for best practice:

Excellent Teaching

  • Inform individual faculty about their outstanding performance.
  • Nominate individuals for university level and national level teaching awards.
  • Ensure excellent teaching is properly weighted in tenure, promotion, and merit decisions.
  • Ensure students are aware of excellent teachers among the faculty.
  • Help in publicizing the recognition of teaching excellence.
  • Reward excellent teachers by providing opportunities to further enhance abilities.

Unsatisfactory Teaching

  • Inform individual faculty about their unsatisfactory performance.
  • Encourage and motivate faculty to improve their teaching.
  • Further develop good professional resources, including peer coaching, mentoring, teaching workshops, and review procedures.
  • Ensure unsatisfactory teachers are not reappointed or given tenure as teachers.
  • Ensure faculty who teach are not promoted or given merit awards if their teaching is unsatisfactory.

We are assuming here that teaching is evaluated in various ways, including student evaluations of teaching and peer review of teaching.

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