HILT Conference 2017: Evaluating teaching
Date and Time
September 17, 2017
09:00AM - 02:30PM EDT
HILT’s sixth Annual Conference on “Evaluating teaching” was held on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 in Wasserstein Hall. Thank you for joining us to explore various facets of evaluating teaching effectiveness at Harvard and beyond that incorporate partnerships between academic professional staff and faculty toward improving teaching and learning. Event materials, video recordings, and resources.
Program
8:30am Breakfast and Registration
9:00am Welcome remarks from Erin Driver-Linn, Director, Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching; Associate Provost for Institutional Research
9:20am Evaluating teaching within a research university
- Drew Faust (moderator), President, Harvard University
- Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University
- Gary King, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, Harvard University
- Douglas A. Melton, Xander University Professor, Harvard University
10:40am Models and practices (Breakout Sessions)
- Creating connections & increasing engagement: Improve teaching without changing your syllabus
- How to fail successfully
- Looking beyond Harvard: The teaching evaluations landscape
- Which decision-making practices promote excellent teaching?
11:50am Ideas and innovations (Breakout Sessions)
- Emerging approaches to evaluating learning
- Getting the most out of faculty & staff partnerships
- Making the most of student evaluations
- Stories of effective and ineffective evaluations of teaching