Pedagogical Consulting
Confidential consulting is available to faculty on all aspects of teaching and learning. The purpose is to help faculty reflect on course design and classroom practice, and to suggest strategies for improvement. Services take the form of individual consultations by appointment, and workshops for groups of interested faculty. All consultations are strictly confidential and participation by faculty is entirely voluntary.
Assistance includes:
- Informal discussion of ideas or problems related to all aspects of teaching, including assignments, testing, grading, student behavior, and presentation skills
- Information concerning common practices at UCSB, student expectations, and experiences of other instructors
- A consultant's visit to your class followed by private conversation about clarity of communication, organization, pace, boardwork, class atmosphere and overall impressions
- Review of videotaped or live lectures by an OIC consultant, for analysis of your own performance and discussion ideas for change
- Readings and handouts on aspects of teaching you want to investigate or improve
- Collection and/or review of student evaluation data, both mid-course and end-of-course
- Videotaped mini-lectures in which you practice and then critique specific elements of your teaching, with or without an audience
- Information concerning recent developments and tools for instruction involving pedagogy, technology, or both. How best to use technological tools to achieve important educational goals.
- Recent and promising approaches to teaching.
- Demonstrations and referrals
- Faculty Development Workshops
- Evaluation design concerning courses and curricula. This service can support instructional improvement projects, program review preparation, and extramural proposals involving instruction, and all courses or curricula.
- The service is also available in the context of confidential consulting (see above).
- In-class videotaping of Teaching Assistants, Teaching Associates, and Faculty.
- To schedule a classroom videotaping contact VideoTaping through <tavideo@id.ucsb.edu>
- Consulting regarding teaching practices of TAs
consultation contacts
faxfax: 805-893-5915