Support for Teaching

• Rhodes College Commitment to Diversity
• For a curated and regularly updated list of useful materials, please visit this page from the Office of Faculty Recruitment, Retention, and Diversity (FRRD).
• The Office of FRRD also sponsors the video series Rhodes to Equity

• Guidelines for Remote Learning
• Faculty Tech Tips for Remote Teaching
• FAQ on Remote Teaching from the ACS Zoom Mentors
• Covid-19 Remote Teaching Assistant Program
• Student and Faculty Discussions on Remote Learning

Classroom Discussions:

• Discussion Makes a Difference

Flipped Classroom

• What you need to know about the Flipped Classroom
• Flipped Classrooms: Old or New? 
• The Flipped Class: What it is and What it is Not
• How to Flip and Land on Your Feet

• Sexual Misconduct Template Language
• Student Accessibility & Accommodations Template Language
• Crowdsourced Syllabus Policies for Remote Teaching
• See also the Chronicle’s Advice Guide, “How to Create a Syllabus”

• This team of information services staff supports teaching and learning at Rhodes.  You can reach them at help@rhodes.edu. 
• Their current work in support of remote hybrid teaching is available here.

Faculty at Rhodes observe each other’s classes often, and peer observation of teaching is one important aspect of the way teaching is evaluated during period reviews for renewal, tenure, and promotion. Below are some recommended resources on how to make your visit to a colleague’s class productive while causing minimal disruption:

• Guidelines for Observation of Remote Courses during Covid-19
• Faculty Email on Peer Observations, Fall 2019
• Sample Format:  The Pre-Observation Meeting
• Sample Format:  The Class Visit (several)
• “We Don’t Trust Course Evaluations, but are Peer Observations of Teaching Much Better?”  (James Lang in the Chronicle)

Faculty members in their first through fifth years can request that the Director of Teaching Mentoring observe a class. This will include a pre-observation meeting, as well as a post-observation meeting. These observations and discussions allow faculty members to receive feedback from an independent source – from outside of one’s department. To request an observation, email Gordon Bigelow.

Faculty members in their first, second, or third year at Rhodes are encouraged to observe a class taught by one of the College’s most outstanding teachers. Each year, the College bestows the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Teaching upon a member of the faculty. All of the College’s Day Award winners welcome you to drop in to observe one of their classes. For a schedule of classes taught by Day Award winners during the current semester, contact Gordon Bigelow.