Holistic Teaching Excellence Rubric
Overview
What defines teaching excellence? How do we benchmark, identify best practices, and measure improvement over time? There is not one metric that defines excellence; rather we think about teaching holistically and as an ongoing process of instructor exploration and development.
Teaching Excellence Rubric
While still in the development stage, the Teaching Excellence Rubric at WSB will consider three perspectives:
- Internal (UW + WSB) benchmarks – examples include syllabus, Canvas utilization, learning outcomes, professional development and innovation activities, defined evaluations such as SSDC guidelines (tenure-track) and performance evaluation guidelines (lecturers and instructional staff) – subpage link (under construction).
- External benchmarks: examples include our accreditation body, AACSB, which defines “Assurance of Learning” and “Teaching Effectiveness and Impact” goals. Poets and Quants could be another external benchmark, as well as others – subpage link (under construction).
- Student benchmarks – in AY 22-23, the WSB launched a redesigned Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) survey. The SET metric + the response rate metric (>70%) are the primary examples (see the “Student Evaluation of Teaching” page for more information).
Ongoing Development
Stay tuned for updates about the Teaching Excellence Rubric!