Teaching Consultations

Teaching consultations are the CETL’s most utilized service. Teaching consultations are designed to meet an individual faculty member’s needs by helping them to tackle a teaching challenge or to try new teaching approaches to foster student learning.

Teaching consultations cover a variety of teaching and learning topics, including:

Writing student learning outcomes
Designing online courses
Designing courses to enhance student learning
Creating instructional media (podcasts, videos)
Enhancing study guides
Teaching strategies for online courses
Using Google Docs
Creating course blogs
Designing and creating effective rubrics
Teaching strategies to improve student learning
Improving teaching effectiveness
Incorporating formative assessment into courses

If you have a teaching challenge you want to tackle, or if you want to improve students’ learning in your course, please submit a CETL services request form.

Syllabus Review

The course syllabus is your first opportunity to scaffold your students’ learning and set the tone for the course. A well-written syllabus can help students to become better learners in your course and to experience a rich learning environment.

The CETL can help you to design or re-design your course syllabus, focusing on the student learning outcomes for your course. To request a syllabus review consultation, please complete the CETL services request form.

Additional syllabus resources

Office of the Provost syllabus resources

External Resources

Course Design (Face-to-face and online)

Have you ever wanted to redesign a course that you have taught? Have you been asked to teach a new course? Consider consulting with our Instructional Designers to assist you in designing your course. We can help you to:

  • Develop student learning outcomes
  • Develop a syllabus that clarifies expectations of the student, the instructor, and the class environment
  • Design assignments that help students achieve stated learning outcomes for the class while connecting concepts and skills across the curriculum
  • Align course outcomes with program level outcomes to support program level assessment

To request a course design consultation: please complete the CETL services request form.

IDEA review

Texas Wesleyan University evaluates courses each semester using the IDEA survey. A CETL staff member can review your IDEA survey data with you and help you to decipher the results. We can also help you to plan changes to instructional strategies based on the survey results.

To request an IDEA review, please complete the CETL services request form.

Additional IDEA resources (from the IDEA Center)

Privacy Statement

The CETL maintains the confidentiality of the faculty with whom we work. All Texas Wesleyan CETL services are provided under the guidelines of the CETL privacy statement.