Faculty Focus

JUNE 19, 2025

The authors of this article were three tenured and tenure-track faculty members in a teacher preparation program at a small private college in upstate New York. Based on this experience of shock, mourning, and rebirth, we have advice to offer colleagues, especially those in teacher education.

Teaching 63

Teaching Ethics Teaching Evaluations Evaluation 63

Faculty Focus

JUNE 19, 2025

The authors of this article were three tenured and tenure-track faculty members in a teacher preparation program at a small private college in upstate New York. Based on this experience of shock, mourning, and rebirth, we have advice to offer colleagues, especially those in teacher education.

Teaching 56

Teaching Ethics Teaching Evaluations Evaluation 56

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.

Course Evaluations 122

Course Evaluations Evaluation Gamification Lecturing 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.

Course Evaluations 111

Course Evaluations Evaluation Gamification Lecturing 111

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Maria Andersen, adjunct professor Some of these concerns are addressed in the COVID-19 response principles that the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors issued on March 13 to guide colleges. We would better off in this crisis right now if they did.”

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Instructors Lecturing Course Evaluations Evaluation 171

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

Among the topics addressed were what colleges have learned from campuses in China, where COVID-19 hit sooner; whether the pandemic might lead to more adoption of microcredentials and other alternative higher-ed models; and whether colleges should do more to evaluate tech-teaching skills when evaluating faculty members.

Education 184

Education Evaluation Instructors Questions 184

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

And research shows that professors who collect early-term feedback, and who use it to make changes to their courses with the help of a consultant, can raise their end-of-semester teaching evaluations. It’s one of the most effective approaches for changing teacher practices,” Gorman says. “In

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Feedback Instructors Students Syllabus 195