Individual Teaching Support
Looking to elevate your teaching? Need a sounding board for a new idea? Want to trouble-shoot a teaching challenge? The UTLC Individual Consult is personalized teaching support that works for you.
UTLC Consults are non-evaluative, personalized, and confidential. From course design and learning assessments to learning activities, the UTLC is your one-stop shop for exploring new approaches, revisiting classic strategies, and energizing your teaching practice. Request a consult today.
Popular Consultation Topics include:
- Course Accessibility
- Course Design and Development
- Classroom and Course Management
- Implementing Team-Based Learning
- Integrating AI Literacy
- Learner Engagement
- Learning Analytics and Assessment
- Reviewing Course Evaluations
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- Using Case Studies
The UTLC offers workshop opportunities for academic departments tailored both in time and scope for departmental needs and projects. Below is a list of common workshop offerings that can be developed to fit your needs.
- Course Accessibility
- Course Design and Development
- 100/200 Level Course Support
- Generative AI
- High Impact Practices and Student Engagement
- Learning Analytics and Assessment
- Student Development
- Teaching Effectiveness
- Team-Based Learning
- Universal Design for Learning
- Using Case Studies
Don’t see the workshop topic that you were looking for? No worries, just contact the UTLC (UTLC@uncg.edu) and we will create the workshop that fits your goals.
UTLC Observations
Consider a course observations using standardized, research-based observation protocols. The UTLC offers two confidential course observations types: in-person course and Canvas course reviews (popular for online courses).
Course observations include:
- Pre observation consult and strategy review
- Use of research-based Course Observation Protocol (from the list below)
- Post observation notes and strategy follow-up
- Second observation to review strategy integration
Research-Based Course Observation Protocols
Peer Review Options
Within the UNCG Teaching Effectiveness Policy, peer assessment, or peer review, of teaching is described as a process conducted by faculty peers that uses elements such as observation of instruction, review of teaching portfolios, and discussions regarding pedagogical goals and methods with the goal to both assess and develop a faculty member’s instructional skill and practice. In practice, peer assessment has had mixed results often due to a lack of consistency, structure, or support. Most instructors are not trained in providing peer assessment of teaching and feel ill-equipped for the nuances of provide direct feedback to a peer as a formative process. By developing a unit-level approach and structure to peer assessment, this approach can become a pivotal component of teaching effectiveness and the evaluation of teaching.
Below are a few examples of peer review. Additionally, the UTLC has compiled resources on deploying peer review, from rubrics to methods, that support faculty/instructors in the peer review process.