TEACHING CENTER INFO
Collected May 2004
by Donna Troka (dtroka@emory.edu)
Director: Michele Marincovich, Ph.D (marin@stanford.edu)
Program Manager: Linda Salser (lsalser@stanford.edu)
Staff: 7 faculty, 1 technology, Office Manager, Program Manager
Organization: with Vice Provost for Undergrad Education
Example of activities: faculty workshops & ta workshops (not usually connected); Topics include: Leading Effective Discussions, Updating Websites, Managing Time, Launching Faculty Career, Teaching Effectively Using Power Point. These events take place throughout the day and evening. Award winning Stanford faculty lecture giving their viewpoints on teaching issues. Also do one on one consultations- this program is very well received. Oversight committee (grad students and faculty) who look at teaching evaluations. Most popular service are teaching consultations & workshops.
Who and How Many Served: Faculty and Grad Student TA’s; mostly serve faculty from Humanities and Sciences, Engineering & Earth Sciences (all have undergraduate programs). Over 600 faculty, 2000 graduate students served which leads to the serving of nearly 5000 undergraduates.
Effectiveness & how it is measured: very effective; evaluations of programs big and small. Also evaluate the center and its programming at the end of each quarter.
Connected to the Center for Teaching and Learning is the Program for Oral Communication which focuses on serving graduates & undergraduates to learn public speaking. (40 student tutors & 2 faculty).
Director: Larry Rowan (Larry_Rowan@unc.edu)
Associate Director:
Iola Peed-Neal (Iola_Peed-Neal@unc.edu -or- iola@email.unc.edu)
Staff: 7 faculty, 1 technology person, 1 secretary/receptionist, 1
equipment loan person
Organization: six
units: curriculum development, faculty development, instructional development,
evaluation & review, classroom support & technical services, and TA
development.
Example of Activities:
Individual consultations, GTA development, course development, mini grants,
teaching resource lab and classroom equipment loan program, teaching circles,
campus reading groups
Who and How Many Served:
Faculty and graduate students; serve between 2200 and 2500 faculty & grad
students/year.
Effectiveness & How it is
Measured: all programs are evaluated at
the end of the session, the teaching resource lab is evaluated via email every
2-3 years, and they track teacher participation in all services and compare
“patron” lists.
Writing program (drives the work of the center) and faculty development combined
Director: Joseph Harris
Staff: 34 faculty
& 1 Program Coordinator (fellows are either Mellon writing fellows who are
post doc (24) and there are Senior Faculty fellows from across the university),
4 support staff
Organization: seems to
be separate programs for grads & faculty. Also writing center and fac
development seem separate.
Example of Activities:
Writing 20, Writing Studio (for undergraduates), Writing in the Disciplines,
Technology seminars & three workshops for graduate students (teaching
breakfasts & lunches, preparing future faculty, and mini grants), one on
one conferences for both.
Who and How Many Served:
faculty & graduate students; roughly 2000 students
Effectiveness & How it is
Measured: most effective with writing
related projects in first year and beyond. Writing 20
rigourous evals for teacher, course and program. Writing
Studio course evaluation. Workshops have eval forms as well.
Director: Susan Ambrose (sa0n@andrew.cmu.edu)
Staff: 3 faculty, 1 administrative assistant, 1 technology person
(really two half time people), 1 part time research associate (who also teaches
in her department)
Organization: faculty
development & graduate student development.
Example of Activities:
one-on-one consultations; discussions of teaching across departments and
colleges, seminars on teaching effectiveness. Faculty
luncheons, junior faculty luncheons. Book buying for
library on faculty development. Teaching fellows who sit in on their
peers classes
Who and How Many Served:
faculty and graduate students;
Effectiveness & How it is Measured: evaluate consultations, evaluate faculty orientations; increase in faculty course evaluations; evaluate each seminar.
*Report to Vice Provost for Education
Director: Allison Pingree (Allison.Pingree@vanderbilt.edu)
Staff: 3 faculty, 1
tech, 1 program coordinator, 1 administrative assistant, 1 grad asst., 3
teaching fellows.
Budget: 65,000
operating budget;
Organization: director
appeases the administrative initiatives; 3 asst. directors- one on faculty, one
on grad studies, one on technology initiatives.
Example of Activities:
small group analysis, videotaping, teaching observation, microteaching,
technology consultation, general teaching consultation, teaching portfolio
preparation.
Who and How Many Served:
faculty, TAs, any instructors; international TA’s- 85; 20 programs for faculty
and GTAs averaging 20 people/event. Future Faculty
Preparation Program (F2P2)- Four Tracks for grad
student prep. 12 workshops/ per semester. 1000-1500
people/year total.
Effectiveness & How it is
Measured: evaluate every program. Some pre-evaluation of events. Some grand scale faculty
evals of programs but not ever year.
Yale University-
The
Director: Bill Rando (William.Rando@yale.edu) 203.432.7702
Staff:
Budget:
Organization:
Example of Activities:
Who and How Many Served:
Effectiveness & How it is
Measured:
Harvard University-
The
Director: James Wilkinson (jwilkins@fas.harvard.edu)
Staff: 1 director, 7
Associate directors, 2 post-docs, 1 research fellow, 1 senior consultant, 20
graduate student teaching consultants, 1 technical supervisor, 2 staff
assistants, 1 program coordinator, 1 assistant director (financial)
Organization:
Example of
Activities: The Center offers
consultations for faculty and teaching fellows,
videotaping of classes, support for foreign faculty and
teaching fellows, classroom observation, a program to foster writing across the
curriculum, a course on discussion leading skills, a seminar on pedagogy, as
well as orientations, workshops, and a library of books, periodicals, and
videotapes.
In
addition, the staff tailors programs to specific needs of individuals, courses,
and departments. Special programs include a network for head teaching fellows,
roundtable discussions on teaching in particular departments, workshops on
professional development issues, a series of seminars on teaching in the
American classroom (for
international teaching fellows), workshops on classroom communication
skills (for non-native speakers of English), and sessions for graduate students
teaching in the same course on issues like grading and leading class
discussions.
The
teaching. The center sponsors fall and winter teaching conferences
(just before the beginning of each term), a seminar on discussion-leading
skills, a graduate writing fellows program, a senior teaching fellows program
for award-winning instructors and advanced teaching fellows, and a junior
faculty seminar.
The
center’s library, open to all Harvard graduate students, includes
books and journals on pedagogy, the center’s own tip sheets and
handouts, and a series of videotapes produced by the center and available on
loan. Publications by the center in conjunction with teachers at Harvard
include The Art and Craft of Teaching, Voices of
Experience: Observations from a Harvard Teaching Seminar,
Teaching
American Students, and the
Teaching Fellows Handbook
Who and How Many Served:
graduate student teachers: approx. 500 at teaching conference, approx 225
videotaping consultations, approx 50 faculty clients; also consult for other
institutions and universities.
Effectiveness & How it is
Measured: teaching evaluations,
questionnaires, teaching awards, informal response, focus group analysis,
promotion/tenure reviews.