A one-to-one consultation is a confidential conversation with an ET&L consultant to determine together what resources, services, and advice will help you achieve your teaching goals. The consultation clarifies your goals and is often the first step in a tailored approach to teaching and course improvement. A one-to-one consultation can be in person, over the phone, or via email.
The consultation helps the consultant understand the instructor’s goals, student needs, and course content — all with careful consideration of the ever-changing classroom context. This alignment process is continuous and relies on keeping student learning as its target; the one-to-one consultation is thus only the starting point of an adaptable, multi-strategy approach toward developing more communicative, reflective, agile, and effective instruction.
Instructor feedback
These excerpts are from instructors' evaluations of ET&L services and are typical of the feedback we receive. They are published with permission from the instructors. Since our work with instructors is confidential, their names are not given.
I am very grateful that Ken and Devshikha bring expertise in learning strategies and care about not just the students but also instructors. It humanizes our experience.
[ET&L] provided me with real solutions that were do-able in the timeframe I had. They really made me think about the learning objectives of each of my assignments. By doing this, I could tailor the assignments in a way that wouldn't be a burden on my TA to grade and provide meaningful feedback and yet still be challenging for the students.
Ken always goes above and beyond in finding ways to support individual faculty's success as an educator. Without ET&L and Ken throughout my tenure at UW, I wouldn't have gained the necessary confidence and skills to effectively teach students.