Teaching and Learning Professional Support (TL Pro)
The Office of Curriculum and Instructional Support offers many opportunities for instructors to gain valuable and timely tips, suggestions, and input to inform and enhance teaching and learning experiences. By applying evidence-based teaching and learning strategies, best practices, resources, and technologies, our Teaching and Learning Professional Support Services (TL Pro) are designed to support the instruction of any course, any format, at any time during the instructional journey.
TL Pro includes and expands upon some familiar CIS services, offering an intensive and diverse range of teaching and learning support opportunities. It provides you, our faculty, with the support you need when you need it. Our individualized services apply evidence-based best practices in higher ed teaching and learning in virtual and physical learning environments, online, face-to-face, and combination courses. The feedback, strategies, and opportunities we offer enable instructors to gauge the impact of teaching and student learning at any time (during, before, and after the semester) and make adjustments to enhance instructional techniques and practices today and in the future.
To provide transparency regarding the tools and resources used for our Teaching and Learning Professional Support Services (TL Pro), our reviews are grounded in nationally recognized frameworks such as Learner-Centered course design, the Community of Inquiry framework, Quality Matters, and the Online Learning Consortium’s Quality Scorecard. We focus on helping you create an accessible, consistent, and engaging environment where students can build knowledge in a clear and supportive space.
All aspects of TL Pro services are confidential and non-evaluative. The focused nature of our TL Pro services allows consultants to engage with “snapshot views" of course elements. Thus, any and all elements of this engagement remain confidential and are not intended to evaluate an educator’s instructional efficacy. As such, any artifacts associated with these services (including but not limited to survey data and consultant feedback) are provided to the requesting instructor only and will not be shared with any other individual under any circumstances. Instructors wishing to use or share service report documents outside of TL Pro engagements should do so at their own discretion.
TL Pro services
- Consultation - Consultations are confidential meetings with a TL Pro consultant to discuss specific methods, challenges, questions, or concerns about your teaching practice or course development. Consultations
often accompany other services that we provide.
- Observation - Our teaching observation service provides faculty with a 1-hour live observation of their teaching practice in any delivery format. You'll also have opportunities to work directly with a TL Pro Consultant to analyze and implement feedback.
- Student Survey - Work directly with a TL Pro Consultant to survey your students through Blackboard, collect, analyze, and reflect on their feedback on your teaching practices and their learning experience.
- Blackboard Review - When you request a Review, a member of our team will confidentially review your Blackboard course shell, carrying out a detailed analysis focusing on clarity, consistency, and accessibility. Recommendations are made to enhance shell development, streamline navigation, increase course management efficiencies through utilizing LMS tools, and ensure all aspects of the course are in sync.
- Syllabus Review - Syllabus reviews offer a detailed analysis of your teaching syllabus, focusing on instructional presence, clarity, consistency, and accessibility. Recommendations are made to enhance syllabus development, streamline navigation, communication, and design to make the most out of this course introduction handbook for you and your students.