Excellence in Teaching
The essential purpose of the Excellence in Teaching program at St. Ignatius is to provide a framework or common language with which we can discuss, assess, and improve our teaching. To this end, we at St. Ignatius have identified essential characteristics of excellent teaching, organized within six general categories. You can download a one-page graphic summary of these characteristics, as well as a two-page overview of the program that includes a description of each category and its essential characteristics. You can also learn more about these characteristics by downloading any of the six category files listed below, which include key descriptors for each characteristic and corresponding rubrics.
A team of St. Ignatius administrators and faculty originally developed the Excellence in Teaching program in the summer of 1998, and it has undergone major revisions in 2001 and 2005. The program began with a model developed and used by Research for Better Teaching in Acton, Massachusetts. A number of other resources have been integrated into the program as well, including the work of Jesuit and other Catholic educators. Special emphasis has been given to what Jesuit educators call "Ignatian Pedagogy." The program is currently being revised to incorporate the latest research on teaching, and it's being expanded to include co-curricular and spiritual formation dimensions of our work. A pilot version of this revised and expanded program will be completed by Fall 2010.
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EIT Program Documents |
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EIT Observation Forms
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End-of-Year Reflection Documents |