CLT staff members are available to record your class and to provide you with a DVD for the purpose of self-evaluation. This option is offered to enable you to take a private look at your teaching style or to participate in a shared review with CLT staff regarding your teaching style and your classroom dynamic. In addition, the DVD will be yours to use as part of your teaching dossier for your annual evaluation or for tenure or promotion.

Indicate your interest to have your colleagues observe your teaching style, classroom management, and class dynamic to provide constructive criticism. This offers new instructors the opportunity to receive suggestions from and discuss teaching and learning strategies with more seasoned instructors.

These sessions are confidential. They are intended for faculty development purposes only.

Instructional designers from CLT are available to attend one of your classes for observation and feedback. These observations are intended to offer faculty members confidential analysis, feedback, and suggestions on various aspects of their teaching strategies based on a pre-determined set of criteria that has been reviewed by both you and the instructional designer. You can invite the instructional designer to attend one or more class meetings or to review recordings, whichever you prefer.

CLT instructional designers are available to attend one of your classes during the last 15 minutes, divide your class into small groups, and collect feedback on what aspects of your course your students believe work and on those that they don’t think work well. The feedback will be summarized and submitted to you for discussion maintaining student anonymity. The outcomes of this activity are intended to confirm successful teaching strategies and to identify areas that need improvement and to suggest practical strategies for improvement.

CLT offers an online course feedback form that you can deploy to your students directly from your Blackboard course.

To encourage students’ participation, consider giving them each member of the class a bonus point or two on midterm if the class’ evaluation form completion rate is above 85%. To download the survey package and instructions for deploying it in Blackboard, please go to http://clt.odu.edu and open Tools for Teaching.

Or contact CLT by email at clt@odu.edu, if you need further help.

For additional information about student feedback, visit the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

Request CLT to design and implement teaching seminars or workshops on topics of interest to you and your colleagues. These seminars or workshops can be one-time events or periodic events, monthly, bi-monthly, annual, for example.

The list of awards can be viewed in two ways:

1. The Overview option displays a short description, the deadline, award, and sponsor. In this view, more detail is available by clicking the title of the award.
2. The Full Description option displays the sponsor, award, a short description, and criteria. It also provides a link to the sponsor’s Web site and a link to award documentation when it is available.

View a directory of volunteers who have offered to open their classroom to new colleagues and TAs, and allow you to observe their teaching style, classroom management, and class dynamic. This provides an opportunity to observe and discuss teaching and learning strategies with more seasoned instructors.

If you would like to volunteer to mentor someone, please see the Mentor a colleague form in the How you can help others section near the bottom of this page.

Volunteer to open your classroom to new colleagues and TAs, and allow them to observe your teaching style, classroom management, and class dynamic. This offers new instructors the opportunity to observe and discuss teaching and learning strategies with more seasoned instructors.

Volunteer to mentor a new faculty member to help him/her achieve excellence in teaching, learning and scholarship by offering guidance, support, and advice.