TARGET

The Advisory Resource Group on Evaluating Teaching

Teaching:	What is good teaching?		Criteria for evaluating good teaching
Evaluation:	Goals (formative, summative)	Types (peer, student, chair)	Tools (portfolios,processes, forms, OCR)
Resources:	Resource Master List		Best Practices from Elsewhere
	Task Force on Roles and Responsibilties		MRFA Collective Agreement
	Evaluation and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Presentations	Materials from PD Days presentation, 2009

The aim of the TARGET group is to seek out, evaluate, and make available to the Mount Royal Community materials which may inform the evaluation of teaching for the purposes of professional development, summative assessment, and/or formal evaluation.

Current TARGET Members:

• Elaine Mullen
• Maureen Mitchell
• Martin Haworth
• Brian Sevick
• Geoff Owens
• Karen Manarin
• Allison Mackenzie
• Margy MacMillan

TARGET Activities

The TARGET group has met regularly to discuss readings across the literature of teaching evaluation, each making presentations to the group on specific aspects of the challenge before us.On May 13, the group presented its work thus far to the MRFA community at PD Days, a presentation repeated on June 4th. The work will continue.

Updated February 24, 2010