Consultations

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is a professional, safe, and supportive environment to pursue faculty development. All CTL consultations are free of charge and confidential. To schedule a consultation, please call 756-7002 or email ctl@calpoly.edu.

Consultations cover a broad range of topics, including:

Effective Teaching

The CTL offers one-on-one, confidential consultations that enable new and tenured faculty to enhance their teaching effectiveness, to discuss opportunities for teaching innovation, and to implement new pedagogies. Also, consultations provide a mechanism for faculty to reflect upon their teaching practice and to foster a community of outstanding teachers at CalPoly.

Faculty consultations typically include some or all of the following elements:

• Initial consultation to determine areas for enhancement or innovation, e.g. Bloom's taxonomy, student participation, active and collaborative learning, pedagogy, etc.
• Classroom visitation (could also include videotaping)
• Discussion with students (without faculty member present) to obtain meaningful feedback
• Post-visitation conference to reflect upon classroom visitation and/or student comments

Roberta Herter (Professor, School of Education & CTL Faculty Associate) provides consultations on effective teaching and feedback for classroom videotaping. To schedule a consultation, please email ctl@calpoly.edu or call 6-7002.

Classroom Videotaping

Have you ever wondered how you are perceived by your students? Classroom videotaping offers you a window to examine your teaching practice from a completely new perspective. Videotaping sessions can be used to reflect upon your teaching effectiveness, communication style, questioning techniques, classroom movement, student participation, and student engagement. Videotaping sessions usually involve an initial consultation, a classroom visitation (for videotaping), and post-visitation consultation.

Roberta Herter (Professor, School of Education & CTL Faculty Associate) provides consultations on effective teaching and feedback for classroom videotaping. To schedule a consultation, please email ctl@calpoly.edu or call 6-7002.

Faculty Scholarship

The CTL consults with faculty regarding their scholarly activities on topics that include potential funding opportunities, conferences for presentations, publication opportunities, and mechanisms for improving efficiency. Consultation support is provided for both discipline-based scholarship and the scholarship of teaching and learning (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning).