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 ...

When teachers encounter disruptive or noncompliant students in the classroom, they typically respond by focusing on the negative behavior. When teachers encounter disruptive or noncompliant students ...

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 ...

An evaluation of the validity of direct observation measures of pupil classroom behaviors is presented. The evaluation is based on a survey of analyses bearing on their construct, criterion-related, ...

The history and utility of category observation instruments developed for analyzing classroom behaviors of teachers and learners are briefly traced. Category observation instruments are defined and ...

Our research found significantly higher student performance at schools that measure fundamental school quality factors and boast high levels of student engagement. What effect does student engagement ...

Disruptive classroom behavior or failing to meet reasonable behavioral expectations set forth by instructors have the potential to harm the learning environment for other students and to create unsafe ...

Two recent studies on Cincinnati’s teacher-evaluation system provide some initial insights about classroom practices that seem to be linked to better student performance, and evidence that teachers ...

When parents step into their child’s school for an open house or classroom visit, they’re not just seeing bulletin boards and ...

Kids can be quick to feel shame and shut down or escalate when corrected. Skipping the correction and directly guiding them ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Teachers need to know that the move toward increased observation and evaluation is intended to help, not be used as a 'gotcha,' experts said at the Education Writers Association ...

As a classroom behavior therapist at the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Autism in Shaker Heights, Pauline Smith starts her day by greeting the buses as students arrive. She spends the rest of the day ...