Typical/Expected Stages of Professional Development Relative to Experience
| EXCITE STAGE |
EXPLORE STAGE |
ENGAGE STAGE |
EXPAND STAGE |
Course Design |
I have not designed any courses yet or taught any pre-designed courses. |
I can teach a pre-designed course and suggest and/or develop new learning activities to improve the course. |
I can design courses with support from either another professor or the Learning and Teaching Services (LTS) team that are engaging, relevant, and current. |
I can design, monitor, and revise courses independently to ensure that the course curriculum is engaging, coherent, relevant, and current, and exceeds course development best practices. |
Curricular alignment |
I have not had to work with course learning requirements yet. |
I can describe how my course learning requirements contribute to the vocational/program learning outcomes of my program. |
I can design my course learning schedule, assessment, and materials in alignment with my course learning requirements. |
I can lead outcome alignment mapping initiatives at the course and program levels. |
Quality Assurance |
I have not had to work with quality assurance processes yet. |
I can describe curriculum quality assurance initiatives such as Annual Curriculum Review (ACR), Program Quality Review (PQR), and others. |
I can participate in curriculum quality assurance initiatives such as Annual Curriculum Review (ACR), Program Quality Review (PQR), and others. |
I can lead curriculum quality assurance initiatives such as Annual Curriculum Review (ACR), Program Quality Review (PQR), and others. |