While revisiting my teaching dossier, I realized I needed something shorter and more effective. Something that I could translate into action in my day-to-day teaching. So, I decided to create my TOS. Feel free to download and customize it!
2. My Teaching Excellence Foundations
02
03
04
Great interactive
Lectures
Problem-Based
Learning
Honest and clear
feedback
01
Top Notch Relationship
Management
05
Continuous
improvement
3. Laying the Foundations
Honest does not mean
douchy
They dont know what
they dont know
Some toughness is
welcome
Uneasiness is expected
Its a two-way street:
learn from their
feedback
Honest and clear
feedback
Share dilemmas
Case studies
Tell personal stories
What would you do?
Show relevance
Discussing instead of
lecturing
Problem-Based
Learning
Provoke, provoke,
provoke
Ask & tell
Pics, not words
Provoke some more
Strip them from right
or wrong mindsets
Dont lecture, tell
stories
Assess participation
Great interactive
lectures
INTEREST CURIOUSNESS TOUGH LOVE
Office hours
Career discussions
Hallway talk
Say hello whenever
you get the chance
Learning through
relationships
Learn from and with
them
Expand the
discussions
Top Notch
Relationship
Management
RAPPORT
4. The Process
COURSE
SETTING ON
LMS
APPROACHABLEN
ESS &
RELATIONSHIP
MGT.
TESTING
Guidelines, announcements, texts MAKE IT
ACCESSIBLE!
Robust Supporting Material
Making it stick
Curiosity drives learning
Interesting Discussions
Learning is an experience
Adjust the design, if needed
Great Delivery
They know better than you
Learn, adapt, be brutally honest about your limitations
Gather Feedback
Start Over
And dont be lazy
Great Course Design
Thinking about the flow / empathetic design
think with students head
5. Brutal Honesty with yourself
S W
O T
Public speaking
際際滷s design
Real-Life Experience
Sense of humour
Creating engagement
Evidence-Based Strengths
Explore Quercus
Make better use of TAs
ALCs
More quizzes and polling
Video-tutorials
Opportunities
Attention to details
New forms of Testing
Excessively laborious Group projects
LMS setting (too boring)
Weaknesses
Too many courses simultaneously
Excessive bureaucracy
Obsolescence in testing
Changing nature of education
Threats
6. Time thieves
Bureaucracy
Organizing students into groups
GROUP FORMATIONS AND
TEAMWORK
Things that are in the syllabus, for
example.
IRRELEVANT EMAILS
Organizing, printing, scheduling.
TESTS
7. My Teaching KPIs
03
01
04
02
Acceptable 3
Desired 4
Outstanding - 5
Numeric Ratings from Course Evaluations
Compliments, suggestions, negative aspects.
Qualitative Comments from Course Evaluations
No harsh discussions or student-related problems
Uneventful Term
Formal and informal comments, invitations and emails.
PTR (yearly)
Bosss Feedback