Teaching Resources
Advice from Near Peer Early Career Faculty at KSU
Welcome to KSU!
The following advice is from your peers in the inaugural Quick Starters Early Career Faculty Learning Community.
First Things First …
Your email is set up as soon as you accept the offer of employment. Start checking it right away so that you don’t miss any important announcements. “KSU Inform” is an essential source of news and events on both the Kennesaw campus and the Marietta campus.
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Area of Focus: New Faculty Tag: New FacultyDiversity and Inclusion
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion provides links to campus resources related to gender and worklife balance, GLBTIQ initiatives, racial and ethnic dialogue, health and wellbeing, disabilities and more.
http://diversity.kennesaw.edu/resources/diversity_resources.php
Area of Focus: New Faculty Tag: New FacultyFaculty Development and Recognition
Faculty Development and Recongition offers programs to support faculty success at KSU, ranging from workshops on promotion and tenure to faculty awards.
Area of Focus: New Faculty Tag: New FacultyOnboarding, Promotion, and Tenure
Faculty Affairs provides links to many important onboarding faculty resources, ranging from payroll and benefits, to KSU ID cards and email accounts, to navigating the annual review and promotion and tenure system/processes.
http://facultyaffairs.kennesaw.edu/new_faculty_resources.php
Area of Focus: New Faculty Tag: New FacultyCreating Transparent Assignments Webinar
You can view the webinar on Creating Transparent Assignments Using the TiLT Framework here: https://us-lti.bbcollab.com/recording/daae9952bd3a46b5afcaff54767e38c9
The slides are attached as a pdf
Please contact Mandy McGrew if you have any further questions.
Area of Focus: Part-Time Faculty Tag: Part-Time FacultyKSU Resources for Part-time Faculty (slides)
These are the slides from the workshop/webinar on KSU resources for part-time faculty members. If you have any questions about the content, please contact Mandy McGrew at mandymcgrew@kennesaw.edu or 470-578-6410
Area of Focus: Part-Time Faculty Tag: Part-Time FacultyInterpreting Course Evaluations: Tips for Instructors
Course evalulations represent an excellent source of data for teaching improvement; however, they can also feel intensely personal. Instructors should keep the following in mind while interpreting their course evaluations:
Area of Focus: Documenting Teaching Effectiveness Tag: Documenting Teaching EffectivenessInterpreting Course Evaluations: Tips for Reviewers
Because course evaluations are used by reviewers to make important decisions regarding promotion and tenure, they should be interpreted appropriately. Deans, department chairs, and promotion and tenure committee members should keep the following in mind while conducting reviews:
Area of Focus: Documenting Teaching Effectiveness Tag: Documenting Teaching EffectivenessActivity Design Template
Active Desgin Template
Area of Focus: Learning-Centered Teaching Tag: learning-centered teachingMeasures and Scales Useful for SoTL
These excellent sites list dozens of scales that measure different aspects of the student experience.
http://hippr.uwgb.org/open-data/
http://teachpsych.org/ebooks/compscalessotp
Area of Focus: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Tag: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning