Library Faculty Committees
Teaching Support and Documentation Committee (TSDC)
Types of Seminars Sponsored by TSDC
Three types of seminars
Documentation
1:
Content:
Introduction to
teaching documentation: overview of student evaluations, peer review
process,
and portfolio.
Audience: Teaching
librarians
beginning their work at UIC (residents and faculty)
Provider:
Committee
Examples of seminars
done*:
Introduction to teaching documentation.
Recommended
frequency: annually,
as needed for new faculty and residents
Documentation 2:
Content: How to
develop
a portfolio; writing a philosophy statement.
Audience: Librarians
developing
teaching documentation; they may be encouraged to attend more than
once.
Provider: Committee,
guest
faculty
Examples of seminars
done*:
Workshop with guest faculty on writing a philosophy statement
Similar
workshop done by Committee.
Recommended
frequency: annually
for new faculty; biannually for residents
Content:
Introduction and
continuing development regarding peer review
Audience: Potential
reviewers
and teaching librarians.
Provider: Committee,
guest
faculty
Examples of seminars
done*:
1999 Workshop for librarians who are in the potential reviewer pool;
to initiate
the process of peer review, to give the potential reviewers an
overview of
the documentation, and to get ideas about it from UIC faculty who had
done
some of this in their respective departments. Workshop was provided by
members
of CETL – Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (James
Pierce, Project
Coordinator of CETL; Saundra Theis, College of Nursing and chair of
CETL;
John Huntington, Dept of English.)
Recommended
frequency: Refreshers
for potential reviewers years when there are faculty on at AY 2 tenure
track
who will be comprehensively reviewed; biannually for teaching faculty
on tenure
track
Professional Development
Content: Teaching
strategies;
assessment strategies such as videotaping
Audience: Teaching
librarians
Provider: Committee,
guest
faculty
Examples of seminars
done*:
2001 2-part workshop on teaching strategies (James Pierce and Michael
Michela;
1999, 2001 workshops given by Sharon Hogan (1999 followup of
librarians videotaped
doing 5 minute session)
Recommended
frequency: some
developmental activity annually
*Examples of seminars
done
include seminars provided by Teaching Documentation Subcommittee of the
Executive
Committee
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