I want to begin the newsletter this week with a version of what Stephen Brookfield (2019) has called an appreciative pause: Thank you to every single person who has stopped by my office to say hi or ask how I am doing as I have transitioned back to work from parental leave. You all have made this transition much easier, and I am so appreciative.
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Speaking of Brookfield, I often cite his Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher (2017) as one of the most influential books on my teaching. Brookfield identifies four lenses that we can use to gain new perspectives on our teaching: 1) our personal experience; 2) our students’ eyes; 3) our colleagues’ perspectives; and 4) educational theory and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL). While you can pursue these different perspectives on your own, I also hope that attending Faculty Hub events and programming helps you gain access to all of these lenses. Read on for some specific opportunities to get student perspectives on your teaching.
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Coming Up in the Faculty Hub
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Faculty interested in gaining a student perspective on their pedagogy can now meet with one of the Faculty Hub’s student consultants! Student consultants serve as thinking partners, helping faculty reflect on the possible impacts of their teaching practices while also providing faculty with the unique opportunity to view their teaching through the lens of a student.
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Student consultants provide three types of consultations.
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Class Observations: Through their work in the Inclusive Pedagogy Partnership Program, student consultants are trained to conduct non-evaluative classroom observations and can provide one-off observations to faculty who are not involved in the partnership program.
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Syllabus Review: Student consultants can meet with faculty to provide feedback and discuss a draft of a course syllabus.
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Assignment/Project Design: Student consultations can provide work-in-progress feedback on assignment and/or project design ideas.
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Service Spotlight: Gathering Feedback from Students
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As Ryan mentioned last week, midterm is a great time to gain student perspectives on your teaching. The Faculty Hub’s facilitated course assessment service is one way to do that; however, there are other, less time-intensive methods for gathering student feedback as well.
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We are always looking for new and exciting projects and collaborations. Feel free to contact us.
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