The center offers services to faculty who would like voluntary and confidential peer review of their classes outside the traditional departmental evaluation process. All of these services require some lead-time to arrange since faculty volunteers provide them. If you would like to schedule any of these services, please give us at least two weeks notice. You can call x4587 or e-mail snyderdw@wfu.edu for scheduling or more information.
Mid-term evaluations
A colleague administers this evaluation to your class(es) at mid-term during the last twenty minutes of class. Students discuss in small groups the following topics: What is working in the class? What is not working? Suggestions? A secretary in each group takes notes of the discussion. After approximately five to seven minutes, the class comes together and each group reports. The colleague begins a list on the board of group answers in the three categories, coming to consensus with the entire class about which answers will be passed on to the professor. Three student secretaries are responsible for making a clean copy of each list. After class, the colleague meets with you to discuss the results. The information that is passed on to the professor is anonymous and reflects only those matters on which there is a consensus or majority opinion. For more information about the process and its benefits, read the article by Genevieve Brock in the first issue of The TLCExchange. It is available on-line here.
Videotaping
The Center owns a video camera and related multimedia/audio-visual equipment. You may use this service in two ways:
- Borrow the equipment and set up the camera in your classroom yourself. You keep the tape and view it yourself. This procedure requires less lead-time as long as the equipment is available and you know how to use it.
- Arrange for someone representing the Center who has been trained in using the equipment to tape the class and meet with you afterward to discuss the tape.
Peer Class Visitations
A colleague whom you select from a list available at the Teaching and Learning Center visits your class on one or more occasions and discusses their observations with you. To read more about the process and benefits of this service, see the article by Bob Evans in the second issue of The TLCExchange. It is available on-line here.
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