SLU’s Teaching Effectiveness Framework and the Reinert Center

All of the Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning’s programs and services fall within the categories and essential practices of the University’s Teaching Effectiveness Framework. Our role vis-a-vis the framework is to support Saint Louis University instructors as they choose their own paths in their teaching development through non-evaluative and voluntary programming and through confidential, non-evaluative and voluntary services.  To learn more, please visit our policies and practices webpage.

Programs

All of our programs and events fall within the Growth-Oriented category and at least one other category of the Teaching Effectiveness Framework. Although many events may fall within multiple categories, in order to aid in identifying which additional category a program or event falls within, we have tagged items on our events page according to a primary category. More intensive or multi-day programming may be tagged with more than one primary category, as necessary. Participants who wish to have an official record of event participation may request a report once per academic year.

Services

All of our confidential services fall within the Growth-Oriented category of the Teaching Effectiveness Framework. As is our normal practice, we only send follow-up reports or feedback to the instructor with whom the service was conducted. Any report or other written feedback is the property of the instructor and can be used internally and without adjustment as evidence of professional development in annual reports, tenure and promotion dossiers, and the like. All services, and thus all reports and feedback, are non-evaluative and formative in nature.

Resources

All of our resources fall within at least one category of the Teaching Effectiveness Framework. Although many resources may fall within multiple categories, in order to aid in identifying which category a resource falls within, we have tagged resources according to a primary category.