Individual Consultations
TLS offers a consultation service designed to assist individual faculty members, at their request, in analyzing and enhancing or developing their teaching skills.
A consultation might consist of one or two brief meetings to discuss specific aspects of an instructor's course or teaching, or it could continue throughout an entire term, with ongoing assistance from the consultant. A more in-depth consultation might involve:
- reviewing information about the course and the instructor's teaching, collected from, for example: classroom observations by a consultant, interviews with the instructor, and/or information collected from students, e.g. through the MERCURY course evaluation service, or privately by the instructor through the learning management system or other means;
- selecting aspects of instruction on which to focus;
- developing and applying specific teaching strategies and techniques;
- monitoring the effectiveness of these strategies and planning any relevant modifications.
This process is flexible and has proven useful in a variety of teaching situations, including lectures, laboratories, discussion groups, seminars and clinical training.
The service is offered on a confidential basis and free of charge to all McGill and Macdonald Campus faculty. To request a consultation, please complete the form below.
Questions about teaching:
Also, if you have a question about some particular aspect of teaching, or would like to discuss a specific teaching-related concern, incident, ongoing issue(s), evaluation results, course planning question(s) and so on, please complete the form below.