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 ...

The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) at CU Boulder offers free and confidential classroom observations for educators at all levels. Whether you’re a tenured professor, teaching professor, lecturer ...

Student evaluations of teaching are suspect -- but increasing classroom observation of professors as an alternative has its own set of problems, write Jonathan Golding and Philipp Kraemer. The ...

As teacher shortages continue to challenge school districts nationwide, many education leaders are searching for new ways to support teachers and strengthen instructional practices. According to ...

Classroom observation is one of the longstanding, old-age traditional techniques of holding a mirror to a teacher. To have them understand where they are in terms of their skills in not only ...

Policy makers are demanding more rigorous teacher evaluations—and central to this effort are software tools that help school leaders record their observations of classroom teaching. Here, we compare ...

Observations of teachers—usually the most prominent component of teacher-evaluation systems—can carry significant sources of bias, potentially penalizing English/language arts teachers of ...

Classroom observation was designed to support teachers’ professional growth. At its best, it provides structured feedback, encourages reflection, and strengthens instructional practice. Within the ...

For many teachers today, classroom observation no longer feels like professional support. It has become a moment of performance, something to be rehearsed, perfected, and survived. Lessons are ...