Mentoring

Information about teaching-related mentoring and Communities of Practice.


Where can I find a teaching mentor?

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Who can give me feedback on my teaching?

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What options are there to join a teaching community of practice at Duke?

  • Intellectual Community Planning Grants (deadline: November 15, 2021): The Provost’s Office offers support to faculty who are interested in convening a group of colleagues to begin or test a new collaboration around a shared intellectual interest. Any Duke regular rank faculty member, from any discipline, is eligible to propose and form a new collaborative group.
  • Teaching for Equity Fellows is a year-long fellowship that gives faculty tools to better engage all students in our classrooms, labs, and learning spaces. The program is specifically designed to address a number of teaching and mentoring topics that may arise around race and identity. Faculty Fellows gain specific skills and strategies to create a culture that improves learning for all our students.
  • Duke Learning Innovation offers periodic Active Learning Faculty Fellowships and other Faculty Fellowships focused on various teaching topics. DLI also encourages faculty to form their own Faculty Learning Communities and can help solicit faculty participants if you have a topic about which you’d like to engage with peers. Programs were suspended during the COVID response but we anticipate them restarting in May 2022 (with applications to open in early 2022). To keep apprised, subscribe to Learning Innovation’s email list.
  • Duke Service-Learning offers consultations, workshops, and events for faculty teaching service-learning and community-engaged courses to reflect on their teaching as a community of practice.
  • Language, Arts & Media Program (LAMP) Bacca Fellowships are cohort programs for faculty designing courses and assignments in line with LAMP goals of teaching and teaching with contemporary communication (application opens annually).
  • Bass Connections and Duke Learning Innovation periodically run the Collaborative Project Courses Faculty Fellows Program. This program supports faculty interested in designing courses in which student learning is driven by collaborative research, analysis, and communication on applied projects that extend across an entire semester.
  • The Preparing Future Faculty program at Duke provides a yearlong experience for PhD students and postdocs to prepare them for the multiple roles they may be asked to assume as future faculty members in a variety of academic institutions.
  • The Bass Digital Education Fellowship is a semester-long experience for Ph.D. students interested in digital education and online teaching. Fellows complete a hands-on project, and also participate in a concurrent colloquium where they and their peers solve course design challenges, engage with digital leaders within and outside the Duke community, and gain online teaching knowledge.

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How can I connect with other faculty who are involved with the assessment of learning?

The Office of Assessment hosts regular workshops, information sessions, and discussions of learning outcomes assessment.  You can see a list of past events here.  To join a communications listserv for future events, please email assessment@duke.edu.

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