Modify Your Teaching Approach
Meet with an ODL Instructional Consultant
ODL consultants work with faculty members to improve their teaching and to enhance student learning. Faculty members are encouraged to maintain periodic communication with the ODL consultant and to continue to enhance their teaching.
All consultations, records, results, and recommendations are confidential. However, records of participation in ODL events are kept and may be shared with department chairs or administrators.
The consultation process is to be used to help instructors improve or enhance their teaching skills. Therefore, the services of the unit are not to be used for evaluation or promotion and tenure decisions.
Teaching Consultants can collaborate with individual instructors or groups of instructors on enhancing any teaching skill, including:
- Designing a course
- Preparing a syllabus
- Incorporating cooperative and active learning strategies
- Using technology appropriately
- Creating assessments
- Devising effective grading schemes
- Interacting with students
Instructors may request any or all of the following formats as part of the consultation process:
- Classroom observation
After a preliminary consultation to identify needs, concerns, and instructional objectives, instructors may request observation of a class by a teaching consultant, who will prepare a confidential description of the instructor's classroom strengths, as well as suggestions for improving student learning. - Teaching Assessment by Students (TABS)
Instructors may choose to administer the interim assessment, TABS, around mid-semester of any term to help identify ways they can increase student learning. Support in interpreting the results of TABS, SUSSAI and SPOT are available upon request. TABS may also be administered as a survey using the Blackboard Survey tool.
More on the Teaching Enhancement Consultation Process 
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For more information or to schedule a consultation, contact ODL Staff, 850/644-4635.
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