NTU Online Facultyhandbook

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Eligible candidates

Description

Remark

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Faculty Evaluation

Quota-based full-time professors

1.     Assistant Professors appointed after August 1, 2016 (inclusive): (Passing a faculty promotion is deemed to have passed the faculty evaluation)

(1)    Career assessment will be conducted in the third year of service.

(2)    Request for promotion in the fifth or sixth year of service (according to the regulations of each college).

(3)    Those who fail will be re-evaluated (request for promotion) in their seventh year of service.

2.     Associate Professor/Professor: Each college shall conduct a faculty evaluation every five years.

3.     Lecturers: Lecturers shall be subject to a first-time evaluation undertaken by colleges within three to five years after appointment, and lecturers who pass the first-time evaluation shall be subsequently evaluated by colleges every three years.

The evaluation (promotion) for new assistant professors shall be handled according to the promotion schedule of the Personnel Office. Each department, institute, and degree program shall start the process approximately from January to February each year. After review and approval by the department, institute, and degree program, the evaluation (promotion) shall be reviewed by the College Faculty Evaluation Committee. If recommendations are made, the evaluation (promotion) shall be reviewed by the University Faculty Evaluation Committee in batches from July to September each year.

For the promotion schedule each year, please refer to the latest news from the University Faculty Evaluation Committee of the Personnel Office.

The evaluation process shall proceed according to the schedule planned by each college every semester or every academic year. To be completed before the end of April every year.

Please see the Faculty Evaluation section for relevant regulations and information.

Project teachers

Project teachers shall be evaluated every year, and the evaluation results shall serve as the basis for employment contract renewal.

The evaluation regulations shall be determined separately by each employing unit.

To be handled pursuant to the "Directives for Appointing Contract Faculty Members and Research Fellows with the University Endowment Fund."

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Teaching hours

Quota-based full-time professors

Minimum weekly teaching hours: 8 hours for Professors. 9 hours for Associate professors and Assistant Professors. 10 hours for Lecturers.

During the time when the Ministry of Education processes the ruling of cases of dismissal, discontinuation of employment, or suspension, the relevant faculty member is prohibited from giving classes, unless otherwise approved by the Curriculum Committees of departments (including graduate institute and degree program) and colleges and signed by the Dean of Academic Affairs due to special circumstances.

Faculty members who fail to fulfill their basic weekly teaching hours should make up the difference within the following academic year. Teaching hours that are not fulfilled will accumulate until they are made up.

To be handled pursuant to the “NTU Full-Time Faculty Weekly Teaching Hours Calculation Standards and Extra Teaching Hours Hourly Fee Approval and Payment Guidelines.”

Project teachers

1.     Teaching personnel who are hired for a project shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of the project.

2.     Personnel who are only required to teach shall have 16 teaching hours per week. If there are special circumstances, the number of teaching hours may be reduced with the consent of the Dean of Academic Affairs.

3.     Personnel who participate in a sponsored project and have been hired by relevant teaching units shall assist in teaching at the request of the department (program) for two credits per semester, in principle. However, starting from the third year of appointment, they are required to lead at least one research project not affiliated with NTU during the previous appointment period.

4.     Except for the personnel in the first three subparagraphs, the teaching, research and services of other teaching personnel shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of full-time teachers.

During the time when the Ministry of Education processes the ruling of cases of dismissal, discontinuation of employment, or suspension, the relevant faculty member is prohibited from giving classes, unless otherwise approved by the Curriculum Committees of departments (including graduate institute and degree program) and colleges and signed by the Dean of Academic Affairs due to special circumstances.

Faculty members who fail to fulfill their basic weekly teaching hours should make up the difference within the following academic year. Teaching hours that are not fulfilled will accumulate until they are made up.

Pursuant to the "Directives for Appointing Contract Faculty Members and Research Fellows with the University Endowment Fund"

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Grade delivery

All faculty

Semester grades should be delivered to the Office of Academic Affairs within 10 days starting from the day following the announcement of the conclusion of final examinations in NTU’s Academic Calendar.

To be handled pursuant to the "Regulations for Grade Delivery and Correction by Faculty."

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Item

Eligible candidates

Description

Hyperlink

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Faculty enhancement events

All faculty

A series of enhancement events are held from time to time during the semester, with diverse themes to improve faculty’s teaching skills.

Faculty enhancement events

2

Teaching Practice Research Project

Quota-based full-time professors and project teachers

Assist faculty who are interested in applying for and taking on the MOE Teaching Practice Research Project; use teaching practice/classroom issues as the main research topic to encourage faculty to conduct research and adjust teaching methods, and thus consistently improving changes in the classroom. The MOE collects applications from November to December every year.

Teaching Practice Research Project

3

Teaching Practice Incubation Project

All faculty

The project encourages faculty to conduct evidence-based research on teaching practice in the course of the current semester, and verify changes in teaching quality and learning effectiveness by discovering problems in the classroom, adjusting teaching design, and formulating corresponding performance evaluation methods. Applications are collected every semester.

Teaching Practice Incubation Project

5

FACULTY+ Tips for Digital Teaching

All faculty

Faculty members can familiarize themselves with digital production through a series of video courses and apply relevant skills in the classroom.

FACULTY+ Tips for Digital Teaching

6

Future Classroom

All faculty

To encourage teaching innovation and improve students' learning participation, the Office of Academic Affairs has specially established the new-generation Future Classroom to provide a diverse interactive learning environment and create the potential for future teaching.

Introduction to Future Classroom equipment and application process

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Teaching Portfolio (tPo)

All faculty

TPo automatically records the courses taught by faculty members each semester, student feedback and course evaluations, teaching and research activities in NTU, teaching award records in NTU and other teaching processes.

The "Statistical Results of Course Evaluation Survey" has been done paperless and no longer provides paper copies. Faculty members can log in to tPo to check or print out the results. NTU Teaching Portfolio website: https://eportfolio.ntu.edu.tw/tportfolio/

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Item

Eligible candidates

Description

Hyperlink

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New Faculty Orientation

Quota-based full-time professors and project teachers appointed in the current year

An off-campus three-day and two-night orientation camp is held in late August every year to help new faculty members familiarize with university resources and policies, adapt to the teaching and research field, and establish a peer network.

New Faculty Orientation

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Classroom Observation Service

All faculty

To promote classroom observation and exchanges among faculty members, distinguished and outstanding faculty or faculty who adopt innovative teaching methods are invited to open their classrooms for peer observation. This service is paired with the cornerstone program to provide a point collection event to encourage new faculty to participate.

Classroom Observation Service

3

Teaching consultation

Quota-based full-time professors and project teachers

Teaching specialists from the Center for Teaching and Learning Development or experienced faculty may go to the classrooms of new faculty. Through classroom observation records and after-class discussions, they are able to help new faculty adjust their teaching methods in a timely manner and enrich the design of teaching activities, thus enhancing students' learning motivation. Teaching consultation can be achieved through one-on-one consultation, teaching observation and feedback, or visits to other faculty’s classrooms for observation. This service is paired with the cornerstone program for new faculty appointed in the current year in providing teaching observation and feedback services.

Teaching consultation

4

In-person exchanges

New faculty appointed in the current year

To promote comradeship among peers, deepen interactions between new faculty, and reduce helplessness at the early stage of their career in NTU, flash-mob activities are held from time to time in conjunction with festivals or semester schedules for small-scale exchanges, such as new faculty returning home and warm-hearted wishes on Teachers' Day provide opportunities for faculty to connect outside the office and create a positive classroom.

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LINE@Community

New faculty appointed in the current year

To continue the peer interaction in the New Faculty Orientation and collect frequently asked questions from new faculty, a one-year anonymous online community will be established. The registration method will be released during the New Faculty Orientation. The online community will serve as a backup channel for orientation reporting. After the camp and the faculty returning to the campus, it will continue to be used until it expires one year later, thereby providing new faculty with a free space to ask questions and express their feelings freely.

Please send your e-mail to the faculty division of the Center for Teaching and Learning Development at ntufdctld@ntu.edu.tw

State your name, unit and date of employment.

No.

Item

Amount (NT$) and rewards

Description/Remarks

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Outstanding Teaching Faculty

(including courses conducted in English)

"Distinguished Teaching": Prize money of NT$200,000, crystal trophy, and certificate.

"Outstanding Teaching": Prize money of NT$40,000, crystal trophy and certificate.

Eligibility: All current full-time (including jointly-appointed) and project-appointed faculty members who have taught at NTU for two years or more are eligible for selection.

Selection period: A list of qualified faculty shall be provided to departments, graduate institutes, and degree programs in early March every year. After preliminary selection by the departments, colleges, and the Center for General Education, the list will be announced in early June. Prize money will be disbursed before the end of July and a Teacher’s Day tea party will be held in September to confer the awards.

To be handled in accordance with the “Regulations for the Selection and Awarding of Outstanding Teaching Faculty.”

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Outstanding Adjunct Faculty

"Distinguished Teaching": Crystal trophy and certificate.

"Outstanding Teaching": Certificate.

Eligibility: All current adjunct faculty members who have taught at NTU for three semesters or more in the last three years are eligible for selection.

Selection period: A list of qualified faculty shall be provided to departments, graduate institutes, and degree programs in early March every year. After preliminary selection by the departments, colleges, and the Center for General Education, the list will be announced in early June. A Teacher’s Day tea party will be held in September to confer the awards.

To be handled in accordance with the “Regulations for the Selection and Awarding of Outstanding Adjunct Faculty.”