Consultation Services
Individual Faculty Consultation
The Center offers individual consultations for faculty in a wide range of instructional and design areas. All individual consultations are confidential. Faculty can meet with professional educational consultants and get feedback or support in the following topics. The Center’s team of Instructional Consultants has extensive knowledge of the scholarly literature on teaching and learning including course and curriculum design, teaching methods, active learning, student engagement, technology for teaching, and assessment.
- Course Design
- General Consulting
- Syllabus Creation
- Assessment and Evaluation
- Large Classes
- Technology and Teaching
- Service Learning
- Classroom Communication
- Handling Difficult Situations
- Classroom Management
- Universal Design
- Student Feedback
- Inclusive Teaching
- Active Learning
- High-Impact Practices
- Mentoring
For assistance in scheduling consultations, contact Jean Layne, Lead Instructional Consultant by email at jlayne@tamu.edu or 979.862.4269.
Consultation Services
At Texas A&M University, one of the departmental consulting services that the Center for Teaching Excellence provides is to help facilitate the process of curriculum redesign. Prior to embarking on this project, however, it is essential to ensure that sufficient leadership support and faculty buy in exists as this process may take several years to accomplish and requires a high level of commitment. The curricular redesign team should include departmental leadership and faculty from its various divisions and programs. To schedule a curriculum consultation, please contact us at cte@tamu.edu.
Focused on a topic of interest to more than one faculty member, group consulting can address topics like curricular redesign with a department or a group of instructors all teaching sections of the same course who want to increase course continuity between sections. Any size group is welcome. Schedule a consultation.
CTE offers one-on-one consulting with all graduate students and postdoctoral researchers on teaching-related topics such as instructional methodology, syllabus design, effective feedback, and assessment. In addition, graduate students serving as Teaching Assistants (TAs) can schedule an observation of their classroom teaching and receive written feedback for their records. Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers can meet with a CTE consultant to discuss and/or review their teaching philosophy statement. For more information, email Jasmine Zenn Vei, CTE Education Consultant.
The CTE offers support for faculty interested in integrating technology into their teaching. Consultations focus on the pedagogical, instructional, and design aspects of integrating technological theory, principles, approaches, and tools into teaching and learning. To request a consultation, visit the CTE's Support Page here.
Texas A&M University Faculty Performance Evaluations Task Force recommended a framework of Faculty Teaching Performance Evaluation that can be customized for use by individual departments and colleges (June 2010). It emphasized flexibility for units, multiple dimensions, and multiple sources of data, separate formative and summative processes, and integral faculty involvement.
Based on these recommendations, the CTE has a repository of information and tools related to Peer Review of Teaching (PRT) for departments that are interested in implementing a PRT process including:
- Tools for customizing peer review processes and associated instruments and rubrics.
- Classroom observation forms and rubrics; forms for pre and post meetings; rubrics for evaluating syllabus, self-assessment tools, etc.
- Resources and workshops conducting classroom observations and providing constructive feedback.
- Summary of the literature and list of references.
Resources:
- Self-Reflection on Teaching Form
- Pre-Observation Reflection Form
- Class Observation Environmental Scan Data Collection Form
- Class Observation Feedback Report Form
- Post-Observation Reflection Form
- Syllabus Review Form
The Center’s team of Instructional Consultants has extensive knowledge of the scholarly literature on teaching and learning including course and curriculum design, teaching methods, active learning, student engagement, technology for teaching, and assessment.
For assistance, contact Jean Layne, Lead Instructional Consultant at jlayne@tamu.edu or 979.862.4269.
Program (Re)Design
Since 2007, Texas A&M University’s Center for Teaching Excellence has worked to develop, implement, and refine the Program (Re)Design (PRD) model. The model is a faculty-led, data-informed process aimed to assist programs in creating a more learner-centered curriculum. During the process, faculty conceptualize, design, and implement curriculum at both the program and course levels. A faculty-led program redesign team, supported by an educational developer, helps drive and sustain the iterative redesign process. This synergistic partnership is anchored by faculty input and engagement. Visit the Program (Re)Design page.