PLEASE NOTE:  TA Taping: Fall Quarter 2009

Due to high demand for taping in fall quarter as well as budget cuts, there might be some delays in scheduling your taping.  You can expect a reply from our taping scheduler within 2 weeks.

If you can, we would ask you to delay your taping until winter or spring quarter.  Thank you.

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The Videotaping and Consultation Service allows faculty, Teaching Assistants, and Teaching Associates to be videotaped (free of charge) while teaching. Tapes can then be viewed with a video consultant.To schedule a videotaping, click here to complete the online form or email tavideo@id.ucsb.edu.

If scheduling a videotaping, please give the day, time, building, and room number. At least 72 hours advanced notice is needed. If possible, give more than one date for your taping. A notice will be sent to you confirming the day and time of your taping. Tapings are 50 minutes. If your class or lab runs longer than that and you want the entire class taped, please note that as a special request.

Once you have been taped, you will receive an email with a schedule of consultation times for which you may sign up. If you find that you need to cancel your consultation, please give us at least two days notice so that graduate student consultants do not get "stood up."

To schedule a consultation, email <taconsult@id.ucsb.edu>.  Viewing and consultations are in Kerr Hall, room 1120-M.

Viewing Videotapes

Teaching Assistants and Teaching Associates may view their tapes with Video Consultants who are experienced graduate students from various departments on campus. They have been trained in facilitating videotaped feedback on teaching.To schedule a consultation, contact <taconsult@id.ucsb.edu>.

Faculty wishing to view their tapes may do so with an Instructional Consultant (Kim McShane, Lisa Berry) from the Office of Office of Instructional Consultation. All consultations are confidential.

The consultation provides a non-evaluative atmosphere in which you may:

• reflect on the teaching methods you are already effectively using;
• discuss aspects of your teaching you want to improve or modify; and
• explore new methods and strategies to experiment with in your teaching

Evaluating the Taping and Consultation Process

If you have had a videotaping and consultation, and haven't already filled out an evaluation form, click here for our online form.

Comments about the Service . . .

"It gave me a new perspective on my teaching - let me view myself as the students might."

"I learned a great deal; how to look and act when lecturing, how attentive I am to student needs, and how to make my explanations clearer."

"The videotape consultation gave me the chance to view my teaching which helped me to reinforce what I was doing well and illuminated some problems of which I was not aware. I was offered useful advice."

"The consultations were less stressful than anticipated. The consultants offered much food for thought."

 As a result of their viewing and discussions with consultants, instructors report many changes in their classrooms and in themselves: including increased confidence, greater sensitivity to students' instructional needs, use of effective questioning techniques, and better utilization of class time.

This service is free of charge to all teaching assistants, associates and faculty. For further information contact <taconsult@id.ucsb.edu>.

Viewing and consultations are in Kerr Hall, room 1120-M. All consultations are confidential.

More information about becoming a video consultant is given in the file attachment below.