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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

Faculty Focus

This article is from The Teaching Professor. For reasons I won’t belabor, my teaching stunk. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. I add my own clarifications and reflections on what the comments mean along with what I thought worked well and didn’t in the course.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

Faculty Focus

This article is from The Teaching Professor. For reasons I won’t belabor, my teaching stunk. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. I add my own clarifications and reflections on what the comments mean along with what I thought worked well and didn’t in the course.

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Teaching While Facing Gender Biases

Edsurge

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Faculty member struggling to engage with students When I first started teaching, I experienced what I will politely call “friction” in relating well to some of the male students. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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How to Demonstrate Confidence in Your Teaching

Edsurge

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. This is especially hard for me since I teach large classes and it is challenging to connect. As I began my first night of teaching in a university setting, I asked the students to take out their textbooks for the class and turn to a particular page.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

Edsurge

Looking through a collection of teaching portfolios by her colleagues helped reassure her that she could redesign her course while preserving what worked about the classroom experience. Thanks to that requirement, the Cal State system has built a library that has grown to more than 200 teaching portfolios.

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New 'Playbook' Explains Four Elements of Great Online Courses

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A new “playbook” aims to strike the middle ground between offering higher ed instructors and institutions too much information about teaching remotely and offering too little. Course Evaluation Instructors should also grade themselves, so to speak. (We know, EdSurge has published plenty of it.)

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

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And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. To get started, what are some of the channels that currently exist, if any, for students to interact with their faculty or instructors around teaching and curriculum?

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