Michele Marincovich, Ph.D., Assoc. Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education; Dir., Center for Teaching and Learning.
Michele has combined management of the Center with a spectrum of responsibilities including one-on-one teaching consultation with faculty and TAs, organization of workshops and lecture series, consultation with departments and Schools, classroom observation, videofeedback, small group teaching evaluation, the writing of handbooks and other publications on teaching, and the production of instructional videotapes. She estimates that she has worked with at least four hundred faculty at Stanford and several hundred lecturers and teaching assistants.
Michele is a frequent presenter at POD, AERA, and AAHE and on other campuses in this country and abroad (Canada, England, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland) on such topics as the improvement of teaching at research universities, TA training, the design and evaluation of faculty development programs, teaching evaluation approaches, and the role of disciplinary differences in higher education. She has published and consulted extensively on these topics as well.
In 1994-96, she served as the coordinator for Stanford's participation in the American Association for Higher Education Peer Review of Teaching Project, a national effort to pilot new forms of peer involvement in the evaluation of teaching.