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 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, ...

As of October 1, 2025, the CACFP requires all participating institutions to maintain records exclusively through KidKare, while May 2026 marks a surge in CLASS 2nd Edition observer training. This ...

Every week my daughter says a different observer takes notes on what the teacher is doing. Should I be concerned the teacher is in trouble? Probably, but not in the way you’re thinking. Observations ...

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 ...

Instructional leaders need to know what is happening when the bell rings and the door closes — in every classroom, in every building, every day. And the best way to do that is through careful but ...

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 ...

Teachers might be at a disadvantage during classroom observation of their instructional practice, which is one of the most widely-used tools for high-stakes job performance evaluations. And whether or ...

I recently tweeted the question: What's the best CPD you've ever had as a teacher? And what's the worst? The 25-plus answers I received fell into two distinct camps. Worst: Being talked-at, ...

After more than 30 years of teaching at the college level—and the past 13 at Flathead Valley Community College—I’ve come to believe that one of the privileges of this work is noticing patterns that ...