What evidence do you have of your effectiveness as a teacher?
Include evidence of student learning
With student's permission, include examples that demonstrate the learning that occurs in your classroom. These can be formative and/or summative.
For example, document the process of a group assignment through a semester. Include drafts the students turn in with your feedback and their subsequent reflections. Do they give a final presentation at the end of the semester? Upload the video here!
For example, document the process of a group assignment through a semester. Include drafts the students turn in with your feedback and their subsequent reflections. Do they give a final presentation at the end of the semester? Upload the video here!
Include Student Ratings of Teacher Effectiveness (SRTE)
Collect representative SRTEs from semester to semester, and report them as evidence of your teaching success.
See below for a variety of ways to communicate student comments and ratings:
See below for a variety of ways to communicate student comments and ratings:
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1) Reporting basic numerical scores:
2) Annotations give more information and draw conclusions:
[Examples taken from: Hume, K. (2005). Surviving your academic job hunt. New York: Palgrave.]
3) Connect student comments to your teaching philosophy statement:
Identify two or three themes from your teaching philosophy statement
For each theme, provide student comments that are evidence of success in meeting your goal
For example:
For each theme, provide student comments that are evidence of success in meeting your goal
For example:
Include classroom observation feedback
Having an outside individual observe your classroom provides you with evidence of what goes on in your classroom. A form such as the one below helps an observer to identify high-quality teaching, and provides you with evidence of teaching effectiveness.
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Include mid-semester evaluations
Having students complete evaluations of teaching and learning midway through the semester enables you as the instructor to guage what's working and what could use improvement, with enough to time left to enact change.
What do your students have to say?
[See http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/Tools/MidsemesterFeedback for forms and suggestions on how to do this!]