Your Teaching Team

First-time participants, please note:

We always encourage first time faculty to contact us for a personal consultation so that we can help you best fit the Teaching Teams Program to the needs and potential of your particular course. The following 5-Step Process is offered as a useful template from which to assemble your Teaching Team. Please do not hesitate to contact us. directly for suggestions on how to tailor this process to your course.

5-Steps for Organizing Your Teaching Team:

1. Assemble Your Teaching Team

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  - Have some preliminary ideas of what your primary goals are for your Teaching Team. These are not set in stone, but an initial vision is quite helpful in the preceptor recruitment process. There are many different ways to incorporate preceptors in your course. For a list of 101 Preceptor Activities click here. For a more personal approach, we would be happy to consult with you about how preceptors can best serve your course objectives, email us here.

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  - Grad students are often the most motivated members of the Teaching Team as they really relish the opportunity to try out different teaching approaches and to interact in a mentor capacity with undergraduates. Bringing your grad students on board the Teaching Team early in the process will go a long way in fostering a collaborative team culture.

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  - Your recruitment process will be taken more seriously and more students will view preceptors as a legitimate source of help if you feature them prominently in your course documentation. Include the Teaching Team concept and Preceptor role in your syllabus and address it in your course website or on D2L.

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2. Recruit Your Preceptors

3. Identify Goals for Your Teaching Team

4. Manage your Teaching Team

5. Wrap Up Semester and Track Outcomes

For more information about the Teaching Teams Program and how it can accommodate your specific course, please contact us directly.