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 ...

The CTE is committed to supporting instructors in delivering high-quality learning experiences for students and continuously improving their practice. We are also committed to supporting the ...

Classroom observation involves a colleague or CTE staff member visiting a class session to provide constructive feedback. It can also be used for self-reflection. Whether conducted by a peer or with ...

Schools of all kinds use teacher observation as a tool for evaluating and improving teacher performance. The observer may be the school principal, a professional teaching coach or a veteran teacher ...

Among Steinberg and Garrett’s findings: • Math teachers were six times more likely to be among the top performers when assigned students who were the highest achievers the previous year. English ...

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 ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

Support for Teachers via Structured Classroom Observations is a teacher professional development practice that strengthens the resilience of public school systems in India by building structured, ...

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