Lauren Barbeau

As teachers, student learning is our goal. Research on teaching and learning offers insight into what we can do to support student success; however, staying current on this research is time-consuming and can be overwhelming for instructors delving into a new field. Critical Teaching Behaviors (CTBs) prepare instructors to foster student success by providing foundational knowledge of effective teaching practices. In this session, participants will use the CTB framework to reflect on their current instructional practices and pedagogical areas of interest to identify strategies they can implement to promote student learning while reinvigorating their teaching.

When it comes to teaching effectiveness, who tells your story? Often, documentation of teaching privileges student or colleague voices or simply lets materials speak for themselves. Using the Critical Teaching Behaviors (CTB) framework, we discuss a documentation method that promotes instructor agency in shaping teaching narratives while fostering reflective habits that improve teaching. The framework provides guidance to instructors crafting their first teaching narrative and presents more experienced teachers with a new lens to think about their teaching. Participants will begin framing a persuasive, coherent teaching narrative using the CTB and evidence from instructional artifacts easily available to them.

What does good teaching look like? How do you know it when you see it? This workshop will introduce the Critical Teaching Behavior framework as a tool to help your department establish a shared, research-based understanding of effective teaching for student learning. Grounded in behaviors that characterize what a good teacher does, the framework provides a common language in which to discuss and evaluate teaching. I suggest this workshop as a follow-up to "Who Tells Your Story? Reflection and Agency in Documenting Teaching Effectiveness.”