Assessing and Improving Your Teaching: Strategies and Rubrics for Faculty Growth and Student Learning

Preface ix The Author xiii 1 Growing Your Teaching Effectiveness: An Overview 1 PART 1 A TEACHING MODEL THAT PROMOTES BETTER LEARNING 15 2 Beliefs Leading to Better Teaching 15 3 Essential Aspects of Effective Teaching 29 4 Documenting Critical Self-Refl ection of Teaching 49 5 Evidence-Based Approaches to Enhance Teaching 65 6 Finding and Using Literature to Promote Better Teaching 83 PART 2 A MODEL TO ASSESS TEACHING TO PROMOTE BETTER LEARNING 97 7 Principles of Assessing Teaching 97 8 Model for Assessing Teaching 115 PART 3 SELFASSESSMENT RUBRICS 129 9 How to Assess Teaching Using Rubrics Based on the Assessment Model 129 10 What These Rubrics Assess, and How That Improves Teaching 153 CASES SHOWING EFFECTIVE USES FOR THE RUBRICS 171 Introduction 171 1 How a Beginning Assistant Professor Used Rubrics to Plan and Track Her Personal Faculty Development 175 2 How a Faculty Developer Used the Rubrics with a Pretenure Instructor to Facilitate Improvement 187 3 How an Experienced Professor Used the Rubrics to Document Her Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 197 4 How a Pretenured Professor Used the Rubrics to Assess His Mentoring Undergraduate and Graduate Students in Research 207 5 How an Experienced Clinical Professor Used the Rubrics to Assess His Changed Roles While Precepting or Supervising Students in Hospital Settings 217 Comparisons among the Cases 229 References 233 Appendix: Rubrics for Self-Assessment of Teaching: Tools for Improving Different Types of Teaching 241 Index 323 Dedicated with love to my sons, Adam, Barry, and Noah Kosherick This book includes Professional content that can be accessed from our Web site when you register at www.josseybass.com/go/Blumberg using the password josseybasshi.ghered.