The Role of Teaching in the Quest for Promotion

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Partnering for Promotion

• The Role of Teaching in the Quest for Promotion

Megan M. Palmer, Terri A. Tarr, and Richard
Gunderman
February 19, 2008
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Todays Agenda

• Documenting teaching
• Dossier preparation tips
• Dossier checklist for teaching
• Evidence to collect
• Examples
• Your teaching statement
• Example of Teaching Excellence
• QA

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Review Criteria
Partnering for Promotion The Role of Teaching in
the Quest for Promotion
February 19, 2008

• Tenured/tenure track faculty
• Excellence in one area
• Teaching
• Research/Creative Activity
• Service
• Satisfactory in other areas
• Balanced case Near excellence in all three areas
• Library faculty
• Excellence in performance
• Satisfactory in professional development and
  service

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Review Criteria
Partnering for Promotion The Role of Teaching in
the Quest for Promotion
February 19, 2008

• Clinical Faculty
• Excellence in either teaching or service
• Satisfactory in the other area
• Lecturers
• Excellence in teaching
• Satisfactory in service
• Research Scientists
• Excellence in research

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Dossier
February 19, 2008

• Provides evidence for all reviews
• Needs to be
• Complete (use checklist)
• Brief
• Well organized
• Reflective
• Reader friendly

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Dossier Preparation Tips
February 19, 2008

• Start in first year documenting activities
• Dont fly solo (Ask chair and other peers for
  help)
• Review good dossiers
• Center for Teaching and Learning has examples of
  strong dossiers
• Use other print and online resources

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Dossier Preparation Tips
February 19, 2008

• Read all university and school documents
• Indiana University Academic Handbook
  http//faa.iupui.edu/common/uploads/library/FAA/ap
  pd3627.pdf
• IUPUI Supplement to Indiana University Academic
  Handbook http//www.iupui.edu/fcouncil/handbook/i
  ndex.html
• IUPUI Campus Promotion and Tenure Guidelines
  http//faa.iupui.edu/common/uploads/library/FAA/AP
  PD735652.doc
• School documents regarding standards and review
  process for promotion and tenure

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Dossier Preparation Tips
February 19, 2008

• Know the rules
• Annual and special reviews
• Important checkpoints
• Expected documentation
• Administrator/committee process
• Criteria in use
• Weighting of various activities
• Appeals process

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Promotion and Tenure Dossier Checklist Teaching

• Teaching narrative
• Teaching load information graduate committees
  served on or chaired
• Peer evaluation of teaching
• Student evaluation of teaching
• Evidence of student learning and match with unit
  and IUPUI student outcome goals
• Evidence of scholarly dissemination of work and
  leadership on teaching

IUPUI Campus Promotion and Tenure Guidelines
http//faa.iupui.edu/common/uploads/library/FAA/AP
PD735652.doc
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Promotion and Tenure dossier Checklist Teaching
(cont)

• Department evaluation of stature of journals in
  which teaching publications appear
• Evidence of undergraduate or graduate student
  research or mentoring
• Evidence of quality of course development or
  innovation efforts
• Listing of teaching awards and grants
• Evidence of teaching development efforts

IUPUI Campus Promotion and Tenure Guidelines
http//faa.iupui.edu/common/uploads/library/FAA/AP
PD735652.doc
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Evidence to Retain on Teaching
February 19, 2008

• Quantity of teaching
• List of names, frequencies, and enrollments of
  courses taught students advised or mentored
  student research supervised other teaching
  teaching load
• Quality of teaching
• Results of peer review
• Letters, rating forms, other reports
• Student evaluation data
• Ideally, summarized, normed to peers, collected
  regularly
• Example 1, Example 2, , Example 3, Example 4

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Evidence to Retain on Teaching
February 19, 2008

• Impact on student learning
• Results of nationally normed exams, pre-post
  comparisons, analysis of student products or
  performance, self-report of students or alumni
• Scholarship of teaching
• Publications, presentations, grants, other
  results
• Evidence related to stature of journals

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Evidence to Retain on Teaching
February 19, 2008

• Leadership on teaching
• Details of role in professional association,
  teaching advocacy on campus, mentoring of other
  teachers
• Undergraduate or graduate student research or
  mentoring
• Innovation in teaching
• Descriptions of course development or redesign
  efforts
• Use of technology, service learning, or other new
  methods

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Evidence to Retain on Teaching
February 19, 2008

• Interdisciplinary work
• List of teaching awards and honors
• Personal teaching development efforts
• Record of participation in workshops,
  conferences, work with consultant or peer mentor,
  reading, experimentation and reflection,
  videotaping
• Student retention efforts

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Teaching Narrative

• Major components of a teaching philosophy
  statement
• Conceptualization of learning
• Conceptualization of teaching
• Goals for students
• Implementation of the philosophy
• Professional growth plan
• Outcomes
• University of Michigan CRLT Samples

Source (Chism, 1998), Developing a Philosophy of
Teaching Statement http//ftad.osu.edu/portfolio/p
hilosophy/Phil_guidance.html
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Documenting Teaching Excellence

• Dr. Richard Gunderman

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Q A