The Instructor Reflection is intended to assist instructors in documenting and archiving ideas for continual course improvement. It provides a mechanism to place instructors' own voices into the Teaching Evaluation process at the course level. It is also one way for instructors to provide evidence of Engaged Teaching for Teaching Evaluation purposes. You can review the University of Oregon's Teaching Evaluation Standards on the Provost Office's website.
UO centrally administers Instructor Reflection surveys for each course through the same system students submit SES responses. You can submit and review completed surveys can be accessed in CollegeNET (through DuckWeb). See more about self reflection as part of Revising UO’s Teaching Evaluations on the Provost Office's website.
Most faculty who opt to respond to the instructor reflection questions do so with very brief answers and skip questions, using the survey merely to capture positive practices, teaching innovations, and teaching development work that might otherwise go unrecorded, or respond to trends in student feedback. If you are thinking ahead about including these reflections as a part of a teaching evaluation, using bullet points or short statements to describe your accomplishments may be more useful for evaluators than paragraphs of prose.
How are Other Instructors Using the Instructor Reflection?