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Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation

Teaching Reflection and Review

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Reflecting on Your Teaching

Self-reflection of your teaching can lead to endless opportunities for your professional growth as an educator. Reflection is a skill, and it starts with transparency and willingness to critically engage with the feedback you receive from your students, your peers and yourself.

Syllabus Guide

Learn how to craft an inclusive syllabus with OTEI's curated guide.

Syllabus Reflections

Our list of questions and considerations for syllabus creation can help you create a strategic course plan.

Guide on Student Feedback

Review our list of recommendations for students when giving instructor feedback.

Teaching Philosophy

Discover how to define your teaching philosophy in this detailed presentation from Becky Tugman, Senior Faculty Fellow for OTEI.

Evaluation of Your Teaching

Learning on how to evaluate your own teaching strategies is a skill that the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation encourages you to prioritize. The growth and evolution of your methods for student engagement, assessment and delivery depends on your capacity for self and peer evaluation.

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Teaching Effectiveness Course

Enroll in our course on teaching effectiveness and take the initiative to grow your skills as an educator based on our research and best practices.

Peer Observation of Teaching Course

Learn strategies for peer observations in teaching and how to utilize these practices to shape and evolve your methodology into an evidence-based approach.

CBSHS's Teaching Effectiveness Community

View resources for measuring teaching effectiveness created by the Clemson's CBSHS.

CAFLS's Measuring Teaching Effectiveness

View the standards for measuring teaching effectiveness created by the Clemson's CAFLS.

Teaching Evaluation TEval

Learn about TEval, a multi-institution initiative to transform the way in which teaching evaluation is conducted.

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Research on Your Teaching

Dive deeper into the methodology of teaching effectiveness and evidence-based teaching with our comprehensive look at why these strategies are so critical, and why they are the cornerstones of OTEI's mission.

Map of Teaching Effectiveness

What is effective teaching? Get the answer here via our presentation which explains the concept and its importance.

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