The Faculty Teaching Fellows are an ACM-funded cohort of faculty at St. Olaf, Carleton, and Luther Colleges, practiced in peer observation of teaching, who can provide compassionate, low-stakes, ...

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 ...

While on safari with NEAF Global Fellows in South Africa, our guide suddenly stopped the truck and jumped out. There on the edge of the dirt road, unnoticed by any of us, he identified an impression ...

Why peer observation of teaching? Peer observation of teaching is an enabling process, for staff with teaching responsibilities to reflect on and improve their teaching practice. The process is ...

Peer observation holds significant importance in improving the teaching effectiveness of instructors, as it provides a platform for instructors to engage in reflective practice, allowing them to ...

Observing peers in the classroom, developing a Professional Learning Network, and focusing on priorities are a few of the recommendations in today’s post on realistic ways teachers can improve their ...

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 October 9th, between the hours of 6:15-6:45am, I observed Prof. Mom teaching a lesson to her son. Prior to discussing content, I must first point out that, though Prof. Mom obviously has little ...

The project will use existing research on effective peer lesson observation to develop a rubric for lesson observation. The programme will involve short, frequent, unannounced observations by peers ...

Our Faculty developers have extensive experience in education and can offer an outside perspective to instructors to assist in assessing their teaching. A classroom or online course observation can ...

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 ...