Individual Fellow Initiatives
Sync-Up - Teach-Up - Texas Teach-Up on Demand
Cohort: 2021
Fellow: Julie Schell
Educators need increased opportunities to participate in Texas Teach-Up in order to benefit from modeling teaching at UT Austin. This project will explore two specific elements of this problem. Currently you can only participate during officially scheduled time/dates, you cannot participate on-demand. This limits access to only those who can make it, or are a part of the university, during the on-schedule times and dates. Additionally, as an on-schedule event, seats have closing limits. Some people who want to participate may not be able to do so because the session is full.
Peer Evaluation of Teaching: Policy and Process
Cohort: 2014
Fellow: Keith Brown
A primary tool in helping instructors improve their teaching skills is a careful assessment of the strengths and weaknesses they exhibit in the classroom environment. While end-of-semester student evaluations can offer valuable feedback on these matters, the numerical summaries and written commentaries those evaluations provide are often too unfocused to help teachers progress at their craft from one semester to the next.