When you identify a faculty member who needs to improve their teaching, you should meet to develop a plan to coach and remediate teaching. You are not responsible for doing the actual coaching. Use this Education Officer Toolbox to identify and recommend options.
Use the PSOM Teaching Development and Coaching Program to create a coaching plan. The course of action will differ depending upon the nature of the teaching issue. As you will note from the algorithm, the course of action is different if the teaching issue is a matter of health, safety, or wellness of faculty members, trainees/learners, or patients.
Teaching Development Program Stages and Coaching for Teaching Program
Both you and the faculty member should prepare for the meeting.
EO Meeting Preparation
Review the faculty member's teaching evaluations to identify issues/concerns. If teaching evaluation data is not available, consider reaching out to educational leaders, as appropriate, for insight (e.g., course directors, program directors)
Review the Initial Meeting with Faculty document, which provides specific goals and tasks you should consider covering during the actual meeting. You do not need to share this document with the faculty member.
If trainee evaluations do not reveal the specific teaching issue, ask the faculty member if you can contact learners to get additional information. Use the Getting Learner Input on How to Improve Faculty Teaching for suggestions on how to do this.
Is the faculty member interested in coaching?
Is the faculty member interested in being observed by a master teacher?
Explain the Peer Observation Program.
Is the faculty member disinterested in coaching for teaching?
At the next release of teaching evaluation scores, re-evalaute the faculty member.
Considerations
Reach out
If improvement is evident, remind the faculty member to check their evaluations, and positively reinforce this achievement.
If improvement is not evident, consider restarting the process, or depending upon the specific teaching issue, reaching out to division or department leadership.
Provide an opportunity for the faculty member to debrief and reflect on the process.