Are you a passionate educator seeking to elevate your teaching methods to the next level? The key to honing your skills lies within the invaluable feedback of your students and colleagues. This guide will empower you with the knowledge and tools to gather actionable feedback from your students and colleagues – feedback that will help you refine your teaching practices and skyrocket your effectiveness in the classroom. Welcome to our comprehensive guide on collecting and utilizing feedback in higher education.
Why Choose This Guide?
Our guide is based on proven strategies that allow you to:
- Identify Opportunities: Understand the areas in your teaching methods that hold the most potential for improvement.
- Transform Your Teaching: Turn feedback into actionable steps that lead to significant transformation in your teaching.
- Enhance the Ownership Experience: Learn how to create an enriching learning environment that your students will love being part of.
- Reciprocity: Instill a culture of mutual respect and open communication where giving and receiving feedback becomes a natural, beneficial exchange.
The Path to Teaching Excellence Starts Here
Embark on a transformative journey towards teaching excellence. Understand your strengths, uncover opportunities for growth, and build a thriving learning environment that inspires your students.
With our guide, you’ll not only gain insights into your teaching methods, but also learn how to use feedback as a powerful tool for continuous improvement and innovation. From understanding when to seek feedback, to deciding what questions to ask and how to ask them, this guide is your ticket to transforming your teaching and enhancing your competitiveness in the academic job market.
Ready to take your teaching to new heights? Dive into our comprehensive guide today!
Testimonials:
The courses I have taken from Cynthia have provided me with a theoretical foundation that I use to better understand how to design classroom environments that promote learning. That foundation gives me an improved capacity to articulate pedagogical concepts so that I can perform effective literature searches to continuously improve my own teaching methods. Being able to engage literature effectively then gives me more confidence to take risks and evolve my courses at a faster rate.
Former faculty member student
Dr. Korpan is very skilled in online teaching and learning, using many effective options for learning in that environment and was able to give fulsome and helpful feedback to all students. Cynthia’s knowledge of learning and teaching in university settings is extensive. Her skills as an educator ensures that her courses and classes are organized, interesting, interactive, and engaging.
Peer colleague
Cynthia is a great instructor. Very knowledgeable about the subject matter. Good choices for assessment. Highly student–centered (i.e., not lecture–based) course activities. One of the best courses that I have taken or observed. Overall, she is a fantastic instructor and role model for teaching.
Former graduate student
Dr. Korpan is a delight to work with and is genuinely sincere, open, and considerate. She brings extensive research experience to her work and simultaneously helps others thrive in their own teaching and scholarship of teaching. Above all else, she understands educational excellence from a variety of perspectives: her extensive understanding of the research in the field; her own research studies and editing experiences; her program-building capabilities; and her hard work and innovation.
Peer colleague
Cynthia Korpan, PhD
Director
ITeach: Certification in Higher Ed Inc
About me
I have over 18 years experience in Educational Development in Higher Education and over 35 years related to workplace learning. As the former Director of Teaching Excellence at the University of Victoria, I garnered significant experience in developing programs and courses, teaching undergraduates, graduate students, and professors, and mentoring many about learning and teaching in higher education. In 2017, I was honoured with the Educational Developers Caucus Leadership Award for my national work related to educational development. My research focuses on early career academics’ first teaching in the academic workplace. This work and my expertise has been and continues to be shared with institutions around the world, such as Canada, the United States, China, Uganda, Pakistan, and Ghana.
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