Institute for Teaching and Learning January 2019 Promotion and Tenure Teaching Narratives

Quality Improvement Major Accomplishments Goals and strategies Teaching Scholarship/Creative Works Service/Engagement Goals and strategies Next Year - Reassess Outcomes Action Steps What do you need to provide for faculty member To be successful?

Process followed? Recommendation to Dean 10 Day Response Period TIU P&T Review TIU and Chair Response Chair Review Tenure + Clinical Promotion Dean Clinical Decision *Positve Reappoinment College Committee Process followed? Recommendation to Dean 10 Day Response Period College and Dean Response University Committee Mixed or Negative Provost Level Review All Dossiers Board of Trustees Final - June

Fourth Year Review Nonrenewal at 4th Year – Form 101 by June 1 Regional Dean TIU Head Columbus Dean OAA No Units First Final College with Units Regional Campus Second

Dossier 2019 -2020 – Dossiers Vita not required for Year Review unless College requires Tenure, Promotion, Fourth Year Review Suggest using to be certain outline followed… New Faculty – Dossier update each year for annual reviews

Dossier Do not repeat Think about what you are trying to convey Recognize the criteria of your college and unit Governance Document Choice

Narratives –YOUR STORY Demonstrate growth through the career and to highlight items that may not be noted in list of accomplishments Organize the text for the reader – what message do you want to convey? Teaching Philosophy, Research Philosophy, and Service/Engagement - Importance each in ten words…

Teaching Narratives Focus of the Candidate’s teaching and outcomes, major accomplishments and plans for the future including works in progress Approach to and goals in teaching, major accomplishments, plans for the future in teaching Description of quality indicators of your teaching including, but not limited to evaluation of teaching

Narratives Noteworthy Accomplishments– Graduate Students Noteworthy Accomplishments – Undergraduate Students Curriculum Development Items implemented from the Teaching Support Program or Endorsements

Organization Use CAPS, bold, italics TEACHING PHILSOPHY: Where I started; what went right; what went wrong; what I did to improve; did it work?

Keep it simple Action verbs Avoid needless extra words Avoid or at least define jargon – people outside your unit read and it needs to make sense

750 Words can allow you to make your case… Do not write about every class/course you have taught unless there is a reason… Use a narrative to link your research, teaching, and service

Evaluations Interpret your SEI’s Emphasize positive trends – can you link to something you did to improve your teaching? You can think statistically about your scores – who really cares if you go up .1; think about the jumps/trends in scores Also consider individual items. The professor is organized – did you specifically address an area and your scores improved.

Contemplate your peer evaluations Can you tell your story using both SEI’s and peer evaluations? Can you have an expert external to the university evaluate your course and add that to the story?

Improving Teaching What have you done to evaluate your teaching? How did you use the evaluation results? Have you assessed your efforts Demonstrate continuous improvement: Identified gaps, pursued learning and applied learning to next class and evaluated outcomes…those that worked – ok; those that did not keep going…

Research Narratives Focus of the Candidate’s research, scholarly or creative work, major accomplishments and plans for the future including works in progress Description of quality indicators of your research, scholarly or creative work such as citations, publication outlet quality indicators such as acceptance rates, ranking or impact factors of journal or publisher

Service/Engagement Narrative Focus of the Candidate’s service and engagement major accomplishments and plans for the future including works in progress Description of quality indicators of your service and engagement

Invest time on your narratives and use them to explain what you are doing and why it is important. IMPACT!!!