With many districts trying to tie teacher evaluations to standardized tests that are often neither valid nor secure (“Evaluation System Weighing Down Tennessee Teachers,” Oct. 19, 2011), it’s only a ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

The teaching evaluation system consists of three components: student evaluation, peer or colleague evaluation, and self-evaluation. The evaluation of teaching provides information that instructional ...

Each academic department or program is required to develop a teaching evaluation plan with the aim of improving the quality of instruction and student learning (MUPIM 7.2.). These plans should include ...

Many units on the CU Boulder campus have been working in partnership with the Teaching Quality Framework (TQF) Inititiative to better align their teaching evaluation practices with known scholarship ...

Real leadership means moving past outdated educator evaluation processes and redesigning it around evidence, clarity, and ...

Teacher evaluation--with all its multiple facets, blind alleys, disputed data models, technocratic hype and roll-out problems-- is on every principal’s mind these days. It would be great to think that ...

“This university doesn’t help its professors to teach better. It just expects them to.” So observed a colleague recently. She went on: “In my department there is no attention to teaching, no regular ...

Formal Evaluation by the Site director: Site directors serve as the main liaison between Drexel University and the school where the teacher candidate is placed. The site director is expected to visit ...

Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

In contrast to end-of-course evaluations, feedback can be used to make changes during current courses. Students report feeling empowered to help craft their educational experience. Questions can be ...

The teaching evaluation system consists of three components: student evaluation, peer or colleague evaluation, and self-evaluation. The evaluation of teaching provides information that instructional ...