Course Design: Teaching Goals

Purpose: The Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) is a self-assessment of instructional goals. Its purpose is threefold: (1) to help college teachers become more aware of what they want to accomplish in individual course; (2) to help the faculty locate Classroom Assessment Techniques they can adapt and use to assess how well they are achieving their teaching and learning goals; and (3) to provide a starting point for discussions of teaching and learning among colleagues.

The results from this inventory of your goals will be used in helping align your goals, objectives, and practices in later worksheets.

Directions: Please select ONE course you are currently teaching. Respond to each item on the inventory in relation to that particular course. (Your responses might be quite different if you were asked about your overall teaching and learning goals, for example, or the appropriate instructional goals for your discipline.)

Fill out this inventory using an electronic spreadsheet that will automatically tally your scores and averages (requires Excel).