Assessing and Improving Your Teaching Strategies and Rubrics for Faculty Growth and Student Learning

by Blumberg, Phyllis

• ISBN13: 9781118275481
• ISBN10: 1118275489
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-10-07
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

In order to make appropriate changes to improve your teaching and your students’ learning, first you need to know how you’re teaching now. Figure it out for yourself and invigorate your teaching on your own terms!

This practical evidence-based guide promotes excellence in teaching and improved student learning through self-reflection and self-assessment of one’s teaching. Phyllis Blumberg starts by reviewing the current approaches to instructor evaluation and describes their inadequacies. She then presents a new model of assessing teaching that builds upon a broader base of evidence and sources of support. This new model leads to self-assessment rubrics, which are available for download, and the book will guide you in how to use them. The book includes case studies of completed critical reflection rubrics from a variety of disciplines, including the performing and visual arts and the hard sciences, to show how they can be used in different ways and how to explore the richness of the data you’ll uncover.

Author Biography

Phyllis Blumberg is director of the Teaching and Learning Center at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. She is the author of Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty from Jossey-Bass.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Author

Chapter 1 Assessing and Improving Your Teaching: An Overview

SECTION I A TEACHING MODEL THAT PROMOTES BETTER LEARNING

Chapter 2 Beliefs Leading to Better Teaching

Chapter 3 Essential Aspects of Effective Teaching

Chapter 4 Documenting Critical Self-Reflection of Teaching

Chapter 5 Evidence-Based Approaches Enhance Teaching

Chapter 6 Finding and Using Literature to Promote Better Teaching

SECTION II A MODEL TO ASSESS TEACHING TO PROMOTE BETTER LEARNING

Chapter 7 Principles of Assessing Teaching

Chapter 8 Model for Assessing Teaching

SECTION III SELF-ASSESSMENT RUBRICS

Chapter 9 How to Assess Teaching Using Rubrics Based on the Assessment Model

Chapter 10 What These Rubrics Assess and How That Improves Teaching

CASES SHOWING EFFECTIVE USES FOR THE RUBRICS

Introduction

1 How a Beginning Assistant Professor Used the Rubrics To Plan and Track Her Personal Faculty Development

2 How a Faculty Developer Used the Rubrics With A Pre-Tenure Instructor to Facilitate Improvement

3 How an Experienced Professor Used the Rubrics to Document Her Scholarship of Teaching And Learning

4 How a Pre-Tenure Professor Used the Rubrics to Assess His Mentoring Undergraduate and Graduate Students In Research

5 How an Experienced Clinical Professor Used The Rubrics To Assess His Changed Roles While Precepting Or Supervising Students In Hospital Settings

References

Appendix: Rubrics for Self-Assessment of Teaching: Tools for Improving Different Types of Teaching

Comparisons Among the Cases

Index