Teaching Support

Teaching support at DePaul extends the university's mission to offer excellent instruction and the best possible learning opportunities for all students. By supporting the needs of the faculty (including part-time, adjunct, full-time, tenure-track, new, and experienced faculty), DePaul's Center for Teaching and Learning helps to ensure that all university instructors have the tools and resources to teach well and the support to sustain such efforts amid their numerous other responsibilities.

Whether you are new to teaching or have decades of experience, receiving feedback from your students, peers, and from teaching support staff will help you to refine your approach, reflect on your teaching, and explore new strategies and methods.

Course Design Support

Learning Experience Designers from the Center for Teaching and Learning can help assess the structure of your course, particularly to ensure:

• Class activities are aligned to learning outcomes
• Students are being provided adequate scaffolding to prepare them for major assignments
• Use of best practices for active and inclusive learning
  

See the full Learning Experience Design service list and find the dedicated Learning Experience Designer for your academic unit.

Teaching Observation

• Developing a Peer Observation system within your academic unit can provide instructors with valuable insights from others with subject-matter expertise and familiarity with the norms of the discipline.
• The Learning Experience Research team provides classroom observation and feedback to the instructor. Feedback is entirely confidential to the instructor and not shared to anyone other than the individual who requested them*.

Feedback from Students

• Exit Tickets and Midterm Surveys: Structured feedback from students on what is going well in the course and what can be improved. Your Learning Experience Designer can help you design and deploy these feedback instruments and determine appropriate course adjustments based on the feedback received.

Considerations About Privacy

The Center for Teaching and Learning maintains a confidential record that a consultation, Midterm Student Feedback session, or observation took place solely for the purpose of evaluating the program. Records are shared only among CTL staff and the faculty member. CTL's teaching support services are strictly for the purpose of professional development and all conversations, e-mails, and documents pertaining to the consultation or teaching feedback session are confidential and will not be released to anyone other than the individual who requested them.

*Confidentiality will be maintained, except when required by legal regulations or university policies. Considerations about privacy and confidentiality with regard to CTL's teaching support services are guided by:

• DePaul Policies and Procedures
• DePaul Faculty Handbook

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