美国大学教学促进机构的举措与启示——以伊利诺伊大学香槟分校为例

The Measures Taken by American Teaching Promoting Institutions and the Implications:Taking the Case of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

美国伊利诺伊大学香槟分校(UIUC)教学卓越中心自1964年建立以来,便致力于支持、提升和增强该校的教学与学习。中心活动主要分为两大部分,即教学发展、测量与评估。围绕这两方面,中心通过提供教学证书项目、专题研讨会和工作坊、咨询服务、教师和员工技术培训团队等形式的活动为教师、学术单位和教学助理提供了教学支持、评估和反馈等服务。该中心能抵挡各种压力长足发展的原因主要有以下三点:一是鼓励教师进行教学学术,努力解决教学与研究隔离的困境;二是将关于大学教学的内容以课程的形式规定下来;三是开发系统的教学评估体系。

Center for Teaching Excellence has been committed to supporting, improving and strengthening the teaching and learning in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since its establishment in 1964. Its activities can mainly be divided into two major parts： teaching development, measurement and evaluation. The Center provides many forms of service for faculty, academic organizations and teaching assistants such as teaching certificate programs, seminars and workshops, consulting service and faculty and staff technology training teams. Its remarkable development under great pressure is attributed to helping teachers to get rid of separation between teaching and research by encouraging them to conduct research on teaching, designating the content about teaching at college in the form of course and developing systems for teaching evaluation.