7.1 The school has a systematic, multi-measure assessment process for ensuring quality of teaching and impact on learner success.
7.2 The school has development activities in place to enhance faculty teaching and ensure that teachers can deliver curriculum that is current, relevant, forward-looking, globally oriented, innovative, and aligned with program competency goals.
7.3 Faculty are current in their discipline and pedagogical methods, including teaching diverse perspectives in an inclusive environment. Faculty demonstrate a lifelong learning mindset, as supported and promoted by the school.
7.4 The school demonstrates teaching impact through learner success, learner satisfaction, and other affirmations of teaching expertise.
Basis for Judgment
7.1 Teaching Effectiveness
• The school has a systematic process for evaluating teaching effectiveness as an integral component of the faculty and professional staff performance review process. This process should include a multi-measure evaluation of teaching as well as expectations for continuous improvement. The school's methods and practices related to teaching effectiveness should be clearly linked to the school's mission, strategies, and expected outcomes.
7.2 Support for Teaching Effectiveness
• The school provides development activities focused on teaching enhancement and incentives to continuously improve teaching effectiveness to all faculty who have teaching responsibilities across all delivery modes.
7.3 Faculty Preparedness
• Faculty are adequately prepared to teach various modalities and pedagogies of degree programs.
• Faculty demonstrate a lifelong learning mindset with respect to their domain expertise. This means faculty take responsibility for continuing their professional development to maintain currency and relevancy in their field of expertise and embrace the idea that we never stop learning.
• Faculty are adequately prepared to teach diverse perspectives in an inclusive environment.
7.4 Teaching Impact
• Teaching effectiveness results in impact through demonstrated learner success and satisfaction. Impact of teaching is also demonstrated through faculty credentials, awards, and certifications, as well as through dissemination of expertise via avenues that may include seminars, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and peer mentoring.
Suggested Documentation
7.1 Teaching Effectiveness
• Describe how the school evaluates teaching performance across its various program instructional models.
• Discuss how the school ensures that the faculty engaged in different teaching and learning models have the competencies required for achieving high quality.
7.2 Support for Teaching Effectiveness
• Describe continuous improvement and development initiatives for faculty who focus on teaching enhancement and learning for a diverse learner population.
• Document faculty participation in teaching enhancement initiatives over the past five years.
• Describe incentives for faculty to continuously improve teaching effectiveness. These may include performance evaluation processes, awards, pedagogy grants, support to attend teaching conferences, or other recognitions and support.
• Describe the school's process for remediating ineffective teaching when the school deems it necessary.
• Describe faculty development activities designed to ensure that faculty are current and using high-quality pedagogy.
7.3 Faculty Preparedness
• Describe how the school supports faculty preparedness to deliver instruction across various degree program modalities and pedagogies.
• Describe how faculty are prepared to teach in an inclusive environment, including workshops or trainings that the faculty or school may have participated in.
• Describe how faculty demonstrate a lifelong learning mindset and how the school supports this lifelong learning goal.
7.4 Teaching Impact
• Summarize awards or other recognitions that faculty have received for outstanding teaching and professional support of learning.
• Document innovative and/or effective teaching practices that have had significant, positive impact on learning.
• Provide exemplars of learner success either with respect to the school's current learners or alumni.
• Document examples of teaching impact, such as results of learner and/or employer satisfaction surveys, teaching awards (internal and external), teaching credentials or certifications, scholarship of teaching and learning, mentoring, and participation in teaching seminars or presentations at teaching conferences.