Learning is such an issue that you have to keep up with it. The other schools are focusing more on teaching people how to learn, how to be ongoing learners, because they're learning on their own right from day one. Each of the Health Sciences departments has their own method of evaluating instructors. Page, who chairs the committee on teaching evaluation in Dentistry, says that Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences have elaborate student and peer evaluation systems which do encourage better teaching. We are very involved with students' evaluation of teachers for purposes of providing feedback to instructors.
Students routinely assess faculty.
Every member of faculty must be assessed once every two years,' he says. The final reports resulting from the evaluations are considered by the senior appointments committee for promotion and tenure positions. It has really raised the priority that faculty give to teaching. They know that if they are doing a good job as a teacher, it pays dividends. Catherine Lang TAG Newsletter Archive .