USC Teaching Excellence Initiative Progress Report
The USC Teaching Excellence Initiative highlights progress in developing a School Teaching Plan with five key elements, focusing on faculty-led processes, defining teaching excellence, supporting faculty development, evaluating teaching excellence, and rewarding outstanding performance. The Center for Excellence in Teaching plays a crucial role in supporting the initiative at the university level, providing tools, training, and consultation. Progress on school plans indicates significant advancements, with recognition at a national and international level. Future steps include infrastructure and funding enhancements to drive teaching innovation and impact beyond USC.
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USC Teaching Excellence Initiative Update on Progress
School Teaching Plan Development Five elements: 1. Faculty Led Process 2. Defining Teaching Excellence in their Discipline a. Criteria to be used to develop, evaluate, and reward excellence in teaching 3. Developing Teaching Excellence in Faculty a. Supporting faculty in reaching the criteria laid out in the definition 4. Evaluating Teaching Excellence a. Multiple categories, multiple methods (chief among them, peer review) 5. Rewarding Teaching Excellence a. Rewarding teaching performance, developing teaching, reviewing peers, and teaching leadership
CETs Role in Supporting the Initiative University Level Definition developed by a faculty advisory board, and reviewed by multiple faculty groups, and the Senate Executive Board Faculty Development Institutes for faculty at all levels of development Future Faculty, New Faculty, Mid career faculty (school based), Faculty Fellows (see briefing sheet for numbers) Peer Review Evaluation Tools and Training School, Department, Program, and Individual Faculty Consultation
Progress on School Plans Spring 2019: Faculty Process, Definitions, Evaluation was due Spring 2020: Final plans including Development and Reward due 17 of 21 schools/units submitted Some truly outstanding plans, and plan elements
Recognition and Next Steps The work USC faculty have done on this has been recognized nationally and internationally. USC has been contacted by 35 different institutions to consult on various aspects of their own work on improving teaching Plans will be completed this year For next year: looking at options for creating more infrastructure and funding to incentivize and support teaching development and innovation that could have serious impact on USC and other institutions
