Documentation of Professional Activities

As established in RIC/AFT 8.12, Professional Activities includes research, publication, grants or creativity and performance in the fine arts; leadership and service to the College; professional improvement; and leadership and service to community, state and nation. This list provides examples of ways to suggest evidence, but it is neither comprehensive nor mandatory.

Teaching Effectiveness Measurements

Command of Subject

Course syllabi, incorporation of new developments in field, instructional innovation, activities to expand your knowledge or explore what others are doing, new-course development.

Skill in Organizing and Presenting Material with Force and Logic

Course materials, course syllabi, organization of course resources (e.g. Blackboard), statement of personal assessment, changes made in response to student achievement or feedback, instructional innovation, exploration of new pedagogy.

Intellectual Integrity

Approach to rigor, documentation of your expectations of students, methods of assessing student learning in your classes.

Enthusiasm for Learning Within and Outside of Classroom

Statement of personal assessment, instructional innovation, evidence that students are responding to subject matter (e.g. student feedback), examples of student work, community engagement, student mentorship experiences.

Ability to Motivate Students to Intellectual Curiosity

Statement of personal assessment; approaches to pedagogy; instructional activities; student feedback; examples of student work; experimentation with service learning, online learning, or other pedagogies; undergraduate research.

Measures of Actual Teaching Performance

• feedback from chair
• feedback from faculty peers in classroom observations – very important
• feedback from dean, if any
• student evaluations, including sample data from student evaluations (not every course every semester); sample of written comments, if any

Professional Competence Measurements

Research, Publication, Grants or Creativity and Performance in the Fine Arts

Anti-chronological listing in CV; copies or representations of products; explanation of your role in collaborative projects; engaged scholarship; awards; feedback from reviewers; letters from colleagues and external partners; co-authored products with students.

Leadership and Service to College

Responsibility and Creativity in Departmental Affairs

Committees, terms of appointment, your role; samples of creative contributions; learning-outcomes assessment, accreditation, faculty development; contributions to and innovations in instructional program.

Service on College Committees

Committees, terms of appointment, your role; samples of creative contributions; contributions to learning-outcomes assessment, accreditation, faculty development; FCTL sessions or workshops led.

Quality of Student Advising

Advising load, statement of approach to advising in personal assessment, activities undertaken to prepare for advising; include informal and student-group advising and research mentorship.

Professional Improvement

• Faculty Development Programs: listing of activities including FCTL programs, conferences, workshops
• Graduate Courses: listing on CV; attendance at professional meetings; listing on CV; indicate role
• Offices in Professional Organizations: listing on CV; indicate role
• Leadership and Service to Community, State, or Nation: listing of activities in CV, statement of contributions, community or industry partnerships, media contacts made, if any