Students in the Dietrich School of Humanities and Social Sciences demonstrate their research for Dean Scheines.
Innovation in Teaching
STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATION
Incentivize innovative and scholarly approaches to teaching.
- Develop and use objective measures of learning gain and teaching - in addition to faculty course evaluations - in the promotion and tenure process.
- Reward education research and innovation in the promotion and tenure process, for example, by crediting discipline-based education research and evidence-based innovations.
- Offer and incentivize regular professional development related to teaching and curricular innovation.
- Create more innovative learning spaces, and support their use in improving student outcomes.
- Leverage the expertise and distinctive roles of teaching-track faculty to advance the overall educational mission.
