Documenting Teaching: Communication Expectations for Effective Teaching

UND's new policy lists five basic expectations of all faculty in regard to teaching:

• careful preparation
• command of the subject matter
• continuing professional growth
• effective communication
• respect for students

In most cases, departments will want to specify additional expectations. See the following example of how departments at other universities articulate their expectations.

"Advice on Preparing Departmental Standards for Tenured Faculty Review"

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Iowa
(paragraph beginning "In the section on teaching..."

 

If your department has written expectations that it would be willing to share, we would be pleased to post them here as examples from UND.