Student feedback on teaching is a key tool for college instructors, informing both their teaching practices and also their tenure process and professional evaluations. Students privately and publicly ...

While the content and focus of feedback offered to students will depend on each individual course and assignment, several principles transcend disciplinary boundaries. When setting up feedback ...

Feel free to comment on what’s going on: How have you been finding the work you’re doing in this course? (Has the workload been manageable? Do you feel engaged with the course material?) What is ...

The Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE) offers a number of confidential services on teaching and learning that are designed to make effective use of your time in achieving your goals and your ...

In Ken Bain’s 2004 study of college faculty, he found that highly effective instructors believe that their students want to and are able to learn. These faculty build trusting relationships through ...

This is the first part of a two-part story about changing classroom culture. Read part two to learn what change this teacher made to help students value growth over grades. Over winter break in 2015, ...

Student-centered learning is now a common phrase in education, but what does it look like? How can teachers who are accustomed to being in charge start to share power with students? These were some of ...

Student teaching is a full-time program, requiring at least 13 weeks in a prek-12 classroom with a mentor teacher. A teacher candidate works five days each week in the classroom. During the first week ...

The new question-of-the-week is: Should teachers encourage student evaluations of their classes and their teaching? If not, why not? If so, what are the best ways to do it? In Part One, we heard from ...

The extent to which COVID-19 has disrupted students’ learning—and the questions of how schools will provide the support students need as a result—can feel too big to grasp. To understand how schools ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

Formative feedback to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses as well as improvement opportunities, while they are still learning, is more valuable than a final grade. The same holds true for ...