Student Teaching Consultant Feedback Request Form
The Center for Teaching Excellence is committed to promoting reflection and collaboration on teaching and learning experiences. One of our programs, Students as Learners and Teachers at a Hispanic Serving Institution, aims to transform teaching and learning spaces in direct response to the experiences, knowledge, and insights from our students. We aim to promote student success by encouraging collaborative teaching and learning partnerships between students and faculty members from across academic disciplines. We also care about developing a collaborative dialogue with staff members across programs and student support resources that promote student success and belonging.
By collaborating with our students, the initiative aims to foster student agency of their learning, integrate teaching approaches that center student voices and experiences, and build a culture of openness to student feedback, reflection, and revision on teaching and learning across UTRGV and beyond. Our student consultants’ disciplinary background and professional aspirations varies (e.g., Business Management, Interdisciplinary Studies, English, Nursing, Manufacturing Engineering, Biology, Music, Business Administration, Theater, Integrated Health Science, Early care and early education, Psychology, Spanish translation and interpretation, Finance, Mathematic, Computer Engineering, among others), which informs different perspectives on what meaningful and engaging teaching and learning experiences mean across academic disciplines. Student consultants also participate in rigorous, interactive, and reflective workshops through the CTE centered on best practices for eliciting and receiving feedback, analyzing teaching and learning approaches, and facilitating rhetorically informed, empathetic, collaborative, and reflective feedback on teaching and learning experiences. They are ready and eager to engage in teaching and learning conversations with you!
For Faculty
If you are a faculty member interested in requesting feedback from our student partners, please consider submitting a feedback request via our instructor Feedback Request Portal.
For Staff
If you are a staff member interested in requesting feedback from our student partners, please consider submitting a feedback request via our staff Feedback Request Portal
The purpose of the portal is for faculty members to request feedback on teaching documents, such as assignments, course syllabi, and other media (e.g., lecture videos, infographics, etc.). The questions provided in the portal are required as they are used by the student teaching consultant to get a better idea of faculty member’s teaching practices, intentions, and choices. Most importantly, faculty members can ask specific questions for feedback linked to their teaching intentions and student learning objectives.
Students use a variety of resources torespond to the feedback request. These include: a teaching document template, a syllabus analysis template, and a teaching philosophy template. These templates contain guiding questions pertaining to the incorporation and accessibility of the course, grading policy/feedback and assessments, representation, implicit bias, and engagement. Student partners draw on the guiding questions and faculty members' responses to the portal toprovide effective and meaningful feedback andengage in reflective dialogue with faculty members.
Upon submission to the portal, you should expect to receive an email from one of our Student Partners in Teaching asking to schedule a one-on-one meeting to discuss the feedback. Following the meeting, you will receive an email with the written feedback so you can have as a resource and future reference. Additionally, we will also send a link where we ask you to reflect on the feedback you received to inform and enhance our program. Upon completion of these activities, you will receive a Certificate of Student Partnership which you can use as supplemental documentation toward annual review and tenure and promotion materials.