Evaluating your Teaching

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Are your teaching methods working? Are your students learning what you want them to in your class? These are some questions to ask at when you evaluate your teaching. It's essential for determining if what you're doing in your class is working or not. It's also essential to document your teaching effectiveness so you have evidence to show a review committee when you are filing for promotion, tenure, and/or post-tenure review. This page has information on the methods you can use to document and evaluate your teaching. 

 

Ways to evaluate your teaching 

Gathering Feedback

Gathering feedback is a common and effective way to document your teaching effectiveness. It can help you:

  • Grow and improve as an educator
  • Identify the most important changes to make in your teaching
  • Document how you have invested in your teaching over time, your commitment to student learning, and your effectiveness as an instructor (helpful for an Annual Activity Report and/or promotion, tenure, post-tenure review)

Learn more about how you can use feedback to evaluate your teaching on our Gathering Feedback and Documenting Teaching Effectiveness page!

Learn about Gathering Feedback and Documenting Teaching Effectiveness

Scholarly Teaching Taxonomy

The Scholarly Teaching Taxonomy, developed by , is a framework for faculty to develop and evaluate their teaching effectiveness. The taxonomy articulates the basic foundations of scholarly teaching: 

  • Evidence-based practice: Instructional decisions are based on research on teaching and learning and well-reasoned theory
  • Ethical engagement with learners: Focus on creating a positive and inclusive learning environment
  • Critical reflection: Regularly analyze and improve teaching practices

Learn more about Scholarly Teaching Taxonomy

 

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