Facilitated by Jessamyn Neuhaus (SUNY Plattsburgh) as part of the Collaborating with Students in Teaching and Learning Series

This workshop is based on “Figuring Out Student Feedback on Teaching: Reducing Potential Professional and Personal Harm to Faculty,” my open access bonus chapter in Picture a Professor: Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning. After a brief review of some of the many ways that poorly designed, implemented, and interpreted student evaluations of teaching can exacerbate inequitable teaching conditions and harm all faculty, we’ll examine three specific strategies that we can use in our own individual classes to elicit formative student feedback on teaching and to advocate for more evidence-based, equity-minded evaluation of teaching efficacy on our campuses.

Jessamyn Neuhaus is a professor of U.S. history and popular culture at SUNY Plattsburgh and Director of the Plattsburgh Center for Teaching Excellence. Recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, she is the author of Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to be Effective Teachers (West Virginia University Press) and editor of Picture a Professor: Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning (WVUP). In addition to two historical monographs—Manly Meals and Mom’s Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Housework and Housewives in American Advertising: Married to the Mop (Palgrave Macmillan)—Jessamyn has published pedagogical, historical, and cultural studies research in numerous anthologies and journals. She regularly gives presentations and workshops on teaching, and is the editor of Teaching History: A Journal of Methods. Her current book project focuses on teaching and learning in the college classroom when things go wrong. As an advocate for scholarship on teaching and learning that celebrates infinite diversity in infinite combinations, Jessamyn’s mission as an educational developer is to help faculty nerd out about teaching and to use their big smart brains for increasing pedagogical self-efficacy. Visit her website geekypedagogy.com