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 ...

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 ...

Teaching is a complex activity, and the way that we evaluate teaching should ideally take into account this complexity. Although student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are often the primary way we ...

The best Christmas present I ever got arrived on December 19, 2006. That's when the Dean called me over to her office to tell me that I passed my tenure review. The tenure process at Union is pretty ...

The following provide clarifications and updates to the existing policies around teaching evaluation in the College of Arts and Science. It is the result of the Dean’s Taskforce report and builds on ...

My name is Nancy, and I had a 30-year career in the classroom, where I was never evaluated, except by... (dramatic pause) checklist. And yet--somehow, I continued to teach and my students continued to ...

Colleges and universities all over the United States are striding through the fall term. Some are already at midterms, six weeks in. Others have just started within the last week. Millions of students ...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has proposed reforming what is typically called "teacher tenure." Absolutely, for all of our children, I want all teachers to be outstanding -- and thus all lackluster teachers ...

I never have the delusion of considering myself a perfect teacher. Never do I worry either that I flub teaching. I apparently have the credentials and skills to approach teaching in an informed ...