How To Behave After a Faculty Performance Review
Always Be Positive
No matter what happens in a faculty review, whether it be a good review or a bad review, always be positive about the results. You, as the employee, always have to be positive, but the boss has the right not to be positive, if he/she does not want to. As long as you, the employee is positive and show enthusiasm, and an eagerness to correct mistakes, then you will do fine in the long run.
Obey The Boss
Do not counter the boss' word. Do not complain to the higher-ups that your boss gave you an 'unfair' evaluation. Even if you got a low score, you just learn to live with it, and be determined to do better next time. Just do what your boss wants you to do.
Make The Corrections Quickly
Make quick corrections. Strive to understand what corrections need to be made. If you are unclear about a correction, you can ask the boss for clarification to make sure you and the boss are on the same page, once you are both on the same page, then make the correction. The faster you make the correction, the sooner your boss can be impressed by your enthusiasm and passion for your job and your willingness to listen to his advice.
Do Not Be Defensive
It does not matter how you like to teach your class or what your personal style or preferences are. If your boss does not like what you are doing, and tells you to make a correction, it is your job to just make the correction and keep your mouth shut. Bosses like positive employees, not whiners or complainers. I just had my 30 day evaluation a couple of hours ago, and I have already made the minor corrections the boss wanted me to make.
Consider Boss Feedback as Teaching Improvement
Try not to consider your boss' feedback as a personal attack on your teaching style. Instead, think of the faculty performance review as a change to show your boss that you are a team player willing to obey the boss and stick to the school rules. If the boss sees you made a minor error, you just go and fix it. Or if you are not quite sticking to school policy, you go and fix it so whatever it is sticks to school policy like glue.
Do not expect the boss to also integrate positive comments into a review
Your boss does not owe you anything. He does not have to add positive points if he does not want to. Just because you have to integrate positive comments into your feedback to students (Sandwich Method)--Positive comment--Improvement comments--Positive comment does not mean your boss has to. Your boss can do whatever he wants and it is your job to simply take it like a 'man' and suck it up.
For me, the sooner I fix whatever mistakes the boss points out, the faster I can impress the boss, and the faster I can move on to teach the class and to say to myself, "I will NOT make that mistake again."--I see it as a 'note to self' moment. I see faculty review as an opportunity of growth of how I can improve my online teaching just like your students correct their grammar/punctuation/essay structure mistakes you point out in their papers for the final draft.
As long as everyone understands that giving feedback for correction is not an attack, but an effort to help people improve whether it be writing, or teaching, then you will do fine in handling any kind of faculty performance review.
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