How an Administrator Evaluates a Teaching Program

Abstract

Teaching and weather may have something in common. Both can run hot and cold; but many people are convinced there's little to be done about it. We’ll leave the weather to researchers on cloud seeding, forecasting satellites, and the like, to concentrate a few comments on effective teaching and how it may be recognized.The very title of this paper—How an Administrator Evaluates a Teaching Program—holds elements repugnant to faculty and presumptuous to the administrator. Certainly, no administrator has self-competency to determine the proper content and quality of the diverse coursing found in university or college instruction. One must look to other sources for this information. Faculty, students, and alumni of the College are interested—often vitally interested—in the teaching program. All may be tapped for evaluations. Faculties at other institutions may be called upon for detached critical appraisals. Also, the Council members of the College, representing the broad field of modern agriculture including commercial farmers, officers of farm organizations, and leaders in agricultural industries constitute another useful source of evaluation.