Consultations
We offer consultations to support individual faculty across the professional lifecycle, help departments and programs align with the university's mission, and contribute to a culture of teaching, learning, and scholarship at TWU.
We work with:
- Individual faculty
- Faculty groups
- Academic departments
- Academic leaders
Individual consultations are formative and confidential, informed by the Ethical Guidelines for Educational Developers from the national POD Network in Higher Education.
Reach out to us for consultations or partnerships on topics such as those listed below:
- Teaching and learning practices
- Course, curriculum, and assignment design
- Online teaching and course development
- Teaching effectiveness and documentation
- Peer observation and feedback on teaching
- Student feedback and engagement
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- Faculty writing and scholarly productivity
- Career-stage development, evaluation, and promotion
- Faculty mentoring and professional growth
- Accessible and inclusive course design
- Disciplinary and signature pedagogies
- Faculty learning communities and communities of practice
- Department, program, and college initiatives
- New program development and curricular change
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Many projects overlap teaching, technology, accessibility, and course design. We can help connect you with the right consultation area.
Class Visits
(Non-Evaluative Observations)
You may request confidential, formative feedback on your in-person or virtual class sessions. Nancy Chick conducts in-person class visits, and Lynda Murphy arranges virtual class visits. Before the visit, we'll ask about your goals. After the visit, we'll meet to debrief, share insights, and brainstorm potential strategies.
This is a supportive, non-evaluative service designed to support your teaching goals. We follow the Ethical Guidelines for Educational Developers from the national POD Network in Higher Education, so this process is confidential, requested by you, and designed to support your teaching—not evaluate it. We won't share the results with anyone but you.
Mid-Semester Feedback Collection
We can help you collect anonymous formative feedback from your students while your course is still in progress—with an extra layer of anonymity and confidentiality for the students and support for you. At your request, we'll gather information from your students to help you understand how they're experiencing your course and/or to explore a particular issue you're curious about (e.g., "I'm struggling to get them to participate," "I want to decrease their test anxiety"). The process is entirely confidential, requested by you, and designed to support your teaching—not evaluate it.
F2F Version
In the final 20 or 30 minutes of your class, you'll leave the room, and we'll facilitate a discussion with your students about what's helping them learn and what would help them learn more effectively. We'll then synthesize their responses and meet with you to share key insights and help you plan what to do based on their feedback.
Virtual Version
We'll send an anonymous survey to your students, synthesize those results, and then meet with you to share key insights and help you plan what to do based on their feedback.
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