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Performance Development System

Ongoing updates

The documents on this page are currently under review and will be updated gradually over time. Updates will be released in phases as materials are finalized.

Our Performance Development System is a structured process that helps faculty and staff set goals, track progress, and support professional growth through ongoing conversations and feedback.

You can use the documents on this page as you work your way through BCIT’s Performance Development System.

Find the category that applies to you. For example, if you’re an Instructor with the Faculty and Staff Association (FSA), you can use the forms in the “Instructor” category on this page . If you’re a BCGEU member, please visit our BCGEU performance development resources.

There are three types of performance development tools:

  • Surveys: Surveys allow your students to give feedback and comment on your instruction and course quality.
  • Peer reviews: These enable a peer to sit in on one or more of your classes and offer you feedback, and vice versa. The forms on this page offer guidelines, but you can request open-ended feedback or specific areas of focus. You can also observe others teach without evaluating, noting what practices you’d like to adopt.
  • Review reports: Every 3 years, you’ll meet with your manager, Associate Dean, Program Head, or other leader for a performance review (see Collective Agreement, Article 13.1.2). They will use Performance Review forms to summarize your collected report documents on non-teaching activities, areas of professional development you’ve targeted, student surveys, etc. We recommend keeping track of your student survey results, peer-reviews, and non-teaching activities like committee work, new training, student supports you’ve put in place, etc.

Instructor

These instruments are used by instructors who most typically meet with students in a lecture or classroom. Specially adapted surveys are used by instructors who work in laboratories, clinical settings and problem-based learning sessions.

Distance and online learning instructor

Since these instructors, tutors and markers work with students who are “off-campus”, their surveys and reviews have been tailored to those circumstances. Where appropriate, secure and confidential surveys are available to students via web links. On completion they are electronically submitted for processing.

Service areas

The following sections contain the PDS forms used by those FSA members who provide a wide range of services to BCIT students and staff. Each service area is listed separately.

Co-op coordinator

Those involved in Co-op education perform a wide range of duties involving students and industrial clients.

Indigenous Services Advisor

Counsellor

Disability Resource Centre (DRC) Specialist

Financial Aid and Awards Advisor

Instructional Development Consultant (LTC)

Librarian

Medical Services RN

Program Advisor

Timetabler