Biology Seminar | Tessa Andrews, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, UGA | "Teaching evaluation as a tool for supporting and rewarding effective teaching"

This interactive seminar will raise questions about how teaching and teaching improvement are supported, incentivized, and rewarded in R1 universities. It will present research-based practices for robust and equitable teaching evaluation and cases of how STEM departments have moved beyond relying solely on student course evaluations. The seminar will present lessons learn from the DeLTA project at the University of Georgia and invite the audience to consider how they would like their teaching to be supported and evaluated and possible paths forward.