Take Your Teaching to the Next Level

A teaching consultation is a focused session, or sessions between a faculty member and a CFDE staff member and/or with another faculty member. A consultation can be a one off meeting but is often undertaken over the course of a semester or a year, and it is geared to help a faculty member improve one or more aspects of his or her teaching.

The aim of the teaching consultation is to help a faculty member to develop a clear set of goals for improving their teaching, and to realize at least one of their goals by the end of the semester. We provide guidance to help you reach those goals. 

We are committed to a flexible but structured consultation model. Thus, we focus on what each individual faculty member might need.

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Scholars are award-winning teachers from across the university who assist Associate Director Donna Troka with teaching consultations. 

Participation in this program is entirely voluntary and confidential.

We offer many different options and tailor our program to best serve your concerns. Here is a list of some possibilities that you might work on: 

•  lecturing skills and techniques
•  course design
•  creating assignments, paper topics, and exams
•  course management
•  discussion skills and techniques
•  interpretation of mid-course and final evaluations
•  grading and giving feedback to student work
•  grading equity over a large course
•  management of large classes
•  problem solving specific issues in a course or section
•  videotaping and class observations
•  low evaluations
•  using interactive teaching strategies
•  using technology effectively in class
•  syllabus construction
•  directed reading in specific area (i.e. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, i.e. SoTL)

We look forward to hearing from you!