Mar 09 2011
Eliciting Feedback on Teaching
We give students extensive feedback about their writing during the semester. How can we elicit constructive feedback from students about our teaching?
The Center for Advancement of Teaching and Learning offers:
- Midterm student focus groups
- Classroom observations
- Videotaped analysis
The College Writing Program offers:
- Classroom observations
- One-on-one and small-group conversations about teaching writing
- Support for classroom visit partnerships
Faculty can:
- Give students extra prompts to complete with the Student Evaluation of Teaching forms. (Responses can be collected with the forms.)
- Ask a colleague to administer the evaluations and to frame the evaluations with a request for constructive feedback.
- Conduct Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects focused on learning more about specific aspects of teaching/student learning.
- Collaborate with students on Student Voices projects.
Tags: campus resources, evaluating our teaching, reflective teaching