Instructional Strategy Consultations

The Instructional Strategy Consultation will include one or more of the following, depending on the instructor’s needs and time constraints:

1. Initial meeting
   At the initial meeting, we will ask you to provide a context for the process by answering some questions about the course, your students, and your teaching.
   
   
2. Information Gathering/Research Period (optional)
   A Center consultant will gather additional information through classroom visits, material reviews, and/or reviews of relevant literature.
   
   
3. Feedback Phase
   The Center consultant will meet with the instructor to share relevant findings from the information gathering/research period.
   
   
4. Action Phase
   Once you have received our feedback, we ask that you determine a “plan of action” for putting our findings into action to enrich your teaching.

1. Voluntary
   Only instructors can request a consultation.
   
   
2. Formative
   The Center for Integrated Professional Development is not in the business of evaluating teaching. Consultants provide information to be used to improve teaching & learning.
   
   
3. Confidential
   No information we gather as a result of the consultation process will be shared with anyone else at the university or beyond without the instructor’s express consent. Upon request, we will provide a letter documenting an instructor’s efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning in a specific course classroom, and instructors are welcome to use those letters in any way they deem appropriate (as an addition to their teaching portfolio, as part of their annual ASPT report, etc.) We would also be happy to send a copy of the letter to a dean, chair, mentor, or DFSC, but only at the written request of the instructor.
   
   
4. Timely
   Center facilitators will work with interested faculty to determine appropriate timing for consultation.