Part C: Teaching Sample Clauses

Part C: Teaching. This Part of the dossier should provide information that conveys the scope, quality and effectiveness of the candidate’s teaching. Although student opinions provide an important assessment of teaching performance, the parties agree that such opinions must not constitute the sole basis for evaluating teaching, hence the need for the candidate to provide evaluators with additional information. For all applications, the candidate will provide a record of teaching with accompanying documents for a minimum of four (4) years and normally not more than seven (7) years preceding the date of application. For a candidate with fewer than four (4) years of teaching experience at the University, the information will be at least for the candidate’s period of employment at Nipissing and may include information from the candidate’s employment at other universities. This Part of the dossier will consist of the items listed from (i) to (iii) below: i) the most recent syllabus for each undergraduate and graduate course taught (or parts of courses taught as a member of a team). Previous syllabi may be included if the candidate wishes to highlight examples of substantial course revision; ii) if applicable, a list of individual student projects supervised or mentored at Nipissing and other universities, including honours theses, directed studies (or similar individually-supervised projects), Master's theses and doctoral theses, whether completed or in progress, with an indication of the nature of the candidate’s involvement (for example, as principal advisor, second reader, or external examiner); and iii) if applicable, a list of individual students supervised at Nipissing and other universities for practice teaching, field placements/field camps, clinical practica, and community/service learning. iv) a concise, organized summary of the scores obtained from student opinion surveys. A typed, representative sample of student comments, recorded at the time of the student opinion surveys, may also be provided. If so, on request by one of the Committees, candidates must be prepared to produce their students’ original, handwritten comments from the relevant comment sheets v) samples of course-related materials prepared by the candidate, such as laboratory exercises, assignments, tests, exams, guides, handouts, instructional materials, or reading lists; vi) evidence of contributions to curriculum development, including an account of the candidate’s involvement in the design of new cou...