Videotaping to aid faculty, GTFs
By Paula Green
Emerald Reporter
A promotional bookmark for
the program states it very simp
ly: "Watch yourself teach.” But
the program itself is a bit more
complex.
In recent years, the University
has pursued activities to
enhance the teaching effec
tiveness of both Graduate
Teaching Fellows (GTFs) and
faculty. In conjunction with
these activities, the Center for
Academic Learning Services
(ALS). along with the provost's
office and the graduate school,
is now establishing a Teaching
Effectiveness Program to im
prove student learning.
According to David Mubin.
ALS director, the program came
about because "this faculty
cared about effective teaching;
they were looking for support
for effective teaching."
ALS has been involved in the
training of GTFs for about six
years. While there were other
departments on campus con
ducting their own training pro
grams, then; had never been a
comprehensive program until
now. Mubin credits Vice
Provost joe Mines with "taking
the first steps to say there
should be something
comprehensive.”
Susan L;syk. ALS associate
director, said, “many univer
sities. such as Stanford and
Washington on the West Coast,
are offering faculty the chance
to be videotaped In the past
several years, we have had
numerous requests from our
faculty to be taped ”
Videotaping while teaching
will be available to all faculty
and GTFs. and is both free and
confidential The taping activi
ty will include guided self
evaluation of the videotaped
lecture, discussion, or lab
Once the tapes have been
made. Hubin hopes to add them
to a small yet growing library of
tapes and resources covering
various issues in teaching effec
tiveness, Development of the
library thus far has been the pro
ject of GTF l.isa Duba-B, who
has assisted Hubin and l.esyk in
getting the program off the
ground.
Duba-B has spent the past few
months researching similar pro
grams at other universities. The
hope is that faculty and GTFs
“will find these resources
useful in their teaching." l-esyk
said.
The videotaping and the for
mation of a resource library,
however, aw not the only fac
tors involved in the new pro
gram To complement the tap
ing, the Teaching Kffectiveness
Program is assisting the
graduate school, which is spon
soring a lecture/colloquium
series on issues related to effec
tive teaching
Thus far “Testing as
Teaching” and "Cultural In
fluences on learning Styles"
have been presented, with two
more seminars to be presented
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As well, the teaching pro
gram will begin publishing a
newsletter for faculty and C.TKs
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