Fall 2024 Teaching Evaluation Workshop Series
Want to improve your teaching or better document teaching for annual evaluation, promotion, or tenure? Attend the fall 2024 Teaching Evaluation Workshop Series to learn more!
This series offers guidance on how to use three voices—student, instructor, and peer—to better document teaching effectiveness and improve your teaching. All UGA faculty with teaching responsibilities are welcome.
Enhancing Teaching through Critical Self-Reflection
Wrapping Up a Self-Reflection Cycle
- Date: Wednesday, Dec. 4
- Time: 2-3:15 p.m.
- Location: MLC Room 372
Engaging in critical reflection can lead to continuous improvement of your teaching practice. This two-part workshop series offers a framework for engaging in self-reflection on your teaching over the course of a semester, which involves identifying a teaching challenge, systematically collecting and analyzing data to better understand the teaching challenge, and reflecting on the findings to make sense of them.
Gathering Mid-Semester Student Feedback
- Date: Friday, Sept. 20
- Time: 10-11:15 a.m.
- Location: MLC Room 372
Mid-semester surveys are an easy way to check in with your students about how the course is going and to get actionable suggestions for changes that would improve their learning. Learn about how you can collect mid-semester feedback from your students, including best practices for administering the survey, tailoring the survey questions to your course context, and interpreting and responding to the feedback you receive.
Conducting Peer Observations of Teaching (three-part series)
Preparing for the Observation
- Date: Thursday, Oct. 10
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: MLC Room 372
Observing Classroom Teaching
- Date: Thursday, Oct. 17
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: MLC Room 372
Providing Effective Feedback
- Date: Thursday, Oct. 24
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: MLC Room 372
This three-part workshop series will prepare you to conduct peer observations of teaching and help your colleagues better understand their own teaching strategies and assumptions by offering another point of view in the classroom. Learn how to align your expectations with the instructor in a pre-observation meeting, identify student and instructor behaviors associated with effective teaching, conduct classroom observations that recognize and reflect on effective teaching, and provide effective feedback and space for reflection during a post-observation meeting.
Crafting Compelling Peer Observation Letters for Promotion and Tenure
- Date: Thursday, Oct. 31
- Time: 12:30-1:45 p.m.
- Location: MLC Room 372
This semester adds a new bonus workshop for faculty who would like to enrich their current peer observation process with a more thorough review for summative evaluation. Attend this bonus workshop to learn how to review course materials and write a letter for inclusion in a promotion or tenure dossier.
Documenting Your Teaching for Annual Evaluation
- Date: Friday, Nov. 22
- Time: 2-3:15 p.m.
- Location: MLC Room 372
Annual evaluations provide you with the opportunity to explain your teaching decisions and how you have incorporated other sources of feedback (e.g., student or peer) to improve your teaching. Learn how to best document and evaluate your teaching efforts, and demonstrate your growth and value as an instructor to your department.