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Teaching related professional activity

What is being evaluated

Criteria

Sources of Data

6.1 Professional Development in Teaching.

  • Accreditation

  • Teaching qualifications

  • Professional development undertaken: quality, relevance and recency.

  • Certification.

  • Documentation demonstrating. participation in formal activities.

  • Products of formal activities: course materials, publications.

6.2 Steps taken to evaluate and improve teaching.

  • Retention and completion rates: graduate and undergraduate.

  • Engagement with new technologies, teaching materials, exchanging course material with colleagues, familiarity with relevant research on teaching and curriculum on teaching.

  • Disciplined self-evaluation and self-reflection.

  • University and DETYA data sets.

  • Examples of methods used to collect and study information about teaching.

  • Accounts of participation, testimony from colleagues, reports of activity.

6.3 Skill sharing with staff.

  • Mentoring and skill sharing with staff.

  • Assistance given to staff on course development or teaching improvement.

  • Professional exchanges with colleagues inside or outside the institution.

  • Conducting seminars or workshops on teaching.

  • Appointment as a mentor.

  • Letters of acknowledgement, reference or thanks.

  • Materials developed or publications produced collaboratively.

  • Invitations to work or assist in other schools or faculties and evaluative testimony about these.

6.4 Teaching innovations.

  • Educational quality of innovative teaching initiatives.

  • Participation in programs requiring reflection on teaching.

  • Examples of innovations and especially testimony about their usefulness and quality (designed or adapted) and their effectiveness (video, multimedia, print materials).

  • Interactive technology use.

  • Publication of a textbook or other instructional materials.

  • Teaching development grants.

6.1 Professional Development in Teaching.

  • Accreditation

  • Teaching qualifications

  • Professional development undertaken: quality, relevance and recency.

  • Certification.

  • Documentation demonstrating. participation in formal activities.

  • Products of formal activities: course materials, publications.