Faculty Performance Review

The Learning Center's Guide to Faculty Performance Review

Performance Review Preparation is available for faculty approaching probationary, tenure, and promotion reviews. Each semester, faculty members who are preparing for performance reviews can meet together to discuss portfolio preparation and other relevant issues, under the guidance of Learning Center Associates. Sample portfolios donated by Berea faculty members are available. In addition to these group meetings, Associates are available for individual consultations on a variety of topics including:

Analysis of Instructor Evaluation Questionnaires (IEQs)
Classroom observations: Learning Center Associates will attend classes and share their impressions.
A Faculty Development Calendar serves as a general guide and brainstorming tool for faculty during their first eight years at Berea

Faculty Development Calender: [DRAFT July 2007; Learning Center Please give Megan Hoffman your suggestions]

Year Semester Semester-specific Events
(required events are in bold, suggested events are in normal type, other suggestions are in italics) Suggestions for yearly experiences

First Fall New Faculty Orientation Events
General Education Workshop

Get assistance in course design (syllabus, assignments, assessment, etc.)

Make plans for scholarly activities for upcoming summer (grant proposals, conference registration, etc.)

Collect course materials and record reflections for use in next year’s courses and probationary review.

List committee choices for Executive Council

Short Term New Faculty Seminar
(considered a short-term release)

Spring Propose Short term course for next year

Summer Advising Workshop
Scholarly/creative work in your discipline

Second
[Probationary Review] Fall Put together your Second Year Probationary Review portfolio

Invite your chair, colleagues, and/or a Learning Center Associate to sit in on your classes in preparation for probationary review.

Involve students in your scholarly work.

Design and carry out course-embedded assessment on a topic of interest to you.

Short Term Meet with your chair to develop a plan for your scholarly work.

Spring Second Year Probationary Review; Propose Short term course for next year

Summer Scholarly/creative work in your discipline

Third Fall Review probationary letter and plan your responses

Using your second year probationary letter as a guide, consider ways to improve your teaching and/or incorporate scholarly activity into your routine.

Share your scholarly work with off-campus audiences. Obtain feedback from colleagues and other experts in the field.

Short Term Work with New Faculty Seminar

Spring Propose Short term course for next year

Summer Scholarly/creative work in your discipline

Fourth
[Probationary Review] Fall Put together your Fourth Year Probationary Review portfolio

What do you need to continue your development? Talk to your department chair, the Dean of the Faculty or Learning Center staff and Associates for ideas and strategies.

Short Term

Spring Fourth Year Probationary Review; Propose Short term course for next year or request to be released from teaching next January (eligible for release after three years of January teaching)

Summer Scholarly/creative work in your discipline

Fifth Fall Review probationary letter and plan your responses

Using your fourth year probationary letter as a guide, consider ways to fine-tune your teaching and/or scholarly activity.

Invite your chair, colleagues, and/or Learning Center Associates to sit in on your classes in preparation for tenure review.

Short Term Take a January term off from teaching to pursue scholarly and/or creative work

Spring Portfolio workshop for tenure review
Propose Short term course for next year

Summer Preparation of tenure portfolio
Scholarly/creative work in your discipline

Sixth
[Tenure Review] Fall Tenure Review Portfolios due

Start early to prepare for sabbatical year. If you plan to seek funding for your work, you will need to start writing grants more than a year in advance of the start of your leave.

Short Term

Spring Tenure decisions announced
Propose Short term course for next year

Summer Pursue funding for sabbatical year

Seventh
[Sabbatical Planning] Fall Sabbatical application preparation
Sabbatical workshops

Share your scholarly work with off-campus audiences. Obtain feedback from colleagues and other experts in the field.

Short Term Sabbatical Application materials due

Spring

Summer Transition from teaching to sabbatical project

Eighth
[SABBATICAL!?!] Fall relax… recoup… refresh…

Attend conferences in your discipline

Short Term recreate… research… rediscover…

Spring rewrite … reread… reconsider…

Summer reflect… recharge… resume…

Ninth Fall Sabbatical Reports due

Present your sabbatical work on or off campus

Short Term

Spring

Summer Scholarly/creative work in your discipline
Faculty Development Opportunities and Suggestions: Broaden your teaching and mentoring of students:

Attend or present a Teaching/Learning Luncheon

Learn about labor supervision training sessions

Work with a reference librarian at Hutchins to see how their staff can help with your classes

Attend training sessions at IS&S to see what the laptop program can add to your teaching

Learn how to use a web-based course management program (e.g. BlackBoard)

Design and carry out class-embedded assessment on a topic of interest to you

Sit in on departmental colleague’s or incoming cohort’s classes

Attend a CELTS workshop to help incorporate service-learning into a course

Attend a summer seminar in General Education

Work with a Learning Center Associate:

Design course plans, assignments, student assessment strategies

Have an Associate attend your classes and provide feedback

Design assessments for pedagogical approaches

Team-teach an interdisciplinary short term course or General Studies course

Become a Service-Learning Fellow

Teach a General Education course that is outside your discipline

Teach abroad in the KIIS program

Attend a regional, national or international faculty development seminar

Propel your scholarly and creative activity:

Attend or present a Friday Colloquium

Work with a reference librarian at Hutchins to see how their staff can help with your scholarly work

Take an hour or two each week to sit in the library and read a journal in your discipline

Display some of your professional work in the Fall Celebration of Creative Projects by Faculty and Staff

Schedule time each week to read and write (or otherwise be active) in your area of scholarly/creative work

Initiate a reading group on a scholarly topic

Apply for Professional Growth funds from the Dean’s Office to pursue work in your field

Apply for a grant from the Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects program (URCPP), and conduct disciplinary research or pursue a creative project with a student

Write a paper for publication or make a presentation at a conference in your discipline

Write a grant proposal to support your professional development (e.g. research supplies, stipend for summer work, off-campus accommodations for collaborations, etc.)

Attend and/or present at

A professional meeting in your discipline

A teaching workshop, e.g. the ACA Teaching and Learning Institute

The ACA Summit

A meeting on the scholarship of teaching and learning

Serve others:

Let the Executive Council know which campus committees appeal to you most

Accept a committee nomination.

Sponsor a student organization

Become a Learning Center Associate

Become an officer in a professional society

Organize a conference or workshop on or off campus

Bring your academic expertise and excitement to local schools and organizations

Coach or referee community sporting events

Participate in community:

Be a regular Convocation attendee

Attend sessions in a Presentation Series:

Teaching/Learning Luncheons [The Learning Center]

Peanut Butter and Gender [Women’s Studies]

Friday Colloquia [The Learning Center]

Labor Lunch Presentations [The Labor Program Office]

Tekule Tusume [The Black Cultural Center]

International Thursday [International Center]

Year	Semester	Semester-specific Events (required events are in bold, suggested events are in normal type, other suggestions are in italics)	Suggestions for yearly experiences
First	Fall	New Faculty Orientation Events General Education Workshop	Get assistance in course design (syllabus, assignments, assessment, etc.) Make plans for scholarly activities for upcoming summer (grant proposals, conference registration, etc.) Collect course materials and record reflections for use in next year’s courses and probationary review. List committee choices for Executive Council
	Short Term	New Faculty Seminar (considered a short-term release)
	Spring	Propose Short term course for next year
	Summer	Advising Workshop Scholarly/creative work in your discipline
Second [Probationary Review]	Fall	Put together your Second Year Probationary Review portfolio	Invite your chair, colleagues, and/or a Learning Center Associate to sit in on your classes in preparation for probationary review. Involve students in your scholarly work. Design and carry out course-embedded assessment on a topic of interest to you.
	Short Term	Meet with your chair to develop a plan for your scholarly work.
	Spring	Second Year Probationary Review; Propose Short term course for next year
	Summer	Scholarly/creative work in your discipline
Third	Fall	Review probationary letter and plan your responses	Using your second year probationary letter as a guide, consider ways to improve your teaching and/or incorporate scholarly activity into your routine. Share your scholarly work with off-campus audiences. Obtain feedback from colleagues and other experts in the field.
	Short Term	Work with New Faculty Seminar
	Spring	Propose Short term course for next year
	Summer	Scholarly/creative work in your discipline
Fourth [Probationary Review]	Fall	Put together your Fourth Year Probationary Review portfolio	What do you need to continue your development? Talk to your department chair, the Dean of the Faculty or Learning Center staff and Associates for ideas and strategies.
	Short Term
	Spring	Fourth Year Probationary Review; Propose Short term course for next year or request to be released from teaching next January (eligible for release after three years of January teaching)
	Summer	Scholarly/creative work in your discipline
Fifth	Fall	Review probationary letter and plan your responses	Using your fourth year probationary letter as a guide, consider ways to fine-tune your teaching and/or scholarly activity. Invite your chair, colleagues, and/or Learning Center Associates to sit in on your classes in preparation for tenure review.
	Short Term	Take a January term off from teaching to pursue scholarly and/or creative work
	Spring	Portfolio workshop for tenure review Propose Short term course for next year
	Summer	Preparation of tenure portfolio Scholarly/creative work in your discipline
Sixth [Tenure Review]	Fall	Tenure Review Portfolios due	Start early to prepare for sabbatical year. If you plan to seek funding for your work, you will need to start writing grants more than a year in advance of the start of your leave.
	Short Term
	Spring	Tenure decisions announced Propose Short term course for next year
	Summer	Pursue funding for sabbatical year
Seventh [Sabbatical Planning]	Fall	Sabbatical application preparation Sabbatical workshops	Share your scholarly work with off-campus audiences. Obtain feedback from colleagues and other experts in the field.
	Short Term	Sabbatical Application materials due
	Spring
	Summer	Transition from teaching to sabbatical project
Eighth [SABBATICAL!?!]	Fall	relax… recoup… refresh…	Attend conferences in your discipline
	Short Term	recreate… research… rediscover…
	Spring	rewrite … reread… reconsider…
	Summer	reflect… recharge… resume…
Ninth	Fall	Sabbatical Reports due	Present your sabbatical work on or off campus
	Short Term
	Spring
	Summer	Scholarly/creative work in your discipline