Faculty community around teachingMuch of the incorporation of scholarly inquiry into teaching throughout the KU community has come in the last several years through the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE). CTE has built and sustains an active community of faculty members who share their teaching with colleagues as serious intellectual work. A key element of our work is electronic course portfolios that make faculty members' teaching and students' learning visible and public. These portfolios are built on a structure originating from the AAHE peer review of teaching project (Hutchings, 1996, 1998), and they provide the intellectual centerpiece of community discourse around excellence in teaching. Colleagues can use ideas they read about, build upon work that is shown, and offer critical commentary on issues raised or the quality of student work presented. Another function of the Center has been to promote consideration of many features of college teaching in the institution's personnel processes, helping the community move beyond relying primarily on student ratings of classroom performance. |
Faculty Community Around Teaching Faculty Governance Consideration of the Evaluation of Teaching |
