Assessing and Improving Your Teaching

Phyllis Blumberg is director of the Teaching and Learning Center at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. She is the author of Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty from Jossey-Bass.

• Preface ixThe Author xiii1 Growing Your Teaching Effectiveness: An Overview 1Part 1 A Teaching Model that Promotes Better Learning 152 Beliefs Leading to Better Teaching 153 Essential Aspects of Effective Teaching 294 Documenting Critical Self-Reflection of Teaching 495 Evidence-Based Approaches to Enhance Teaching 656 Finding and Using Literature to Promote Better Teaching 83Part 2 A Model to Assess Teaching to Promote Better Learning 977 Principles of Assessing Teaching 978 Model for Assessing Teaching 115Part 3 Self-Assessment Rubrics 1299 How to Assess Teaching Using Rubrics Based on the Assessment Model 12910 What These Rubrics Assess, and How That Improves Teaching 153Cases Showing Effective Uses for the Rubrics 171Introduction 1711 How a Beginning Assistant Professor Used Rubrics to Plan and Track Her Personal Faculty Development 1752 How a Faculty Developer Used the Rubrics with a Pretenure Instructor to Facilitate Improvement 1873 How an Experienced Professor Used the Rubrics to Document Her Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 1974 How a Pretenured Professor Used the Rubrics to Assess His Mentoring Undergraduate and Graduate Students in Research 2075 How an Experienced Clinical Professor Used the Rubrics to Assess His Changed Roles While Precepting or Supervising Students in Hospital Settings 217Comparisons among the Cases 229References 233Appendix: Rubrics for Self-Assessment of Teaching: Tools for Improving Different Types of Teaching 241Index 323