The consultants in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) offer an observation service that provides formative, confidential, and timely feedback to instructors on their teaching and course-design ...

The Brandeis Center for Teaching and Learning helps to connect faculty with colleagues on campus in the spirit of continuous improvement in our teaching and learning. It is expected that the benefits ...

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are a popular measure of teaching effectiveness, which center students’ perspectives. However, research shows that SET scores have limitations, including ...

Teachers tend to have strong opinions about observations. Some veteran teachers may not even flinch at the idea of a formal observation, but rookie teachers—and especially first-year teachers—often ...

UCITE teaching observations support faculty through collaborative interactions of classroom practices and the application of research on learning to more effectively and efficiently engage with ...

Teaching is a complex activity, and the way that we evaluate teaching should ideally take into account this complexity. Although student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are often the primary way we ...

The Observation Activity is central to the review process and much of the data generated in the process are gathered from this activity. There are several categories of observation, each with several ...

A visitor is coming to your classroom to watch you teach, and you’re worried. Maybe your teaching is being evaluated for tenure or promotion. Or maybe you have been asked to teach a class as part of a ...

This policy supports The University of Texas at San Antonio’s (UTSA) vision of providing access to educational excellence to its students. It recognizes the essential contribution of its faculty ...

On the scale of most anxiety-producing moments in teaching, few things top the dreaded peer observation. True, there are plenty of other sources of teaching angst, but none of them quite match the ...