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February 3-7, 2025: A Week of Teaching Visits
The CFE is pleased to offer five days of teaching visits the week of February 3-7, 2025. Well-respected instructors across many disciplines will generously open their classroom doors to their colleagues.
Sign up will open in January.
About the program
The IC TEACHING: A Week of Teaching Visits program is intended to encourage intentionality and reflection on teaching choices and contexts. Faculty hosts from all five schools welcome faculty guests to visit a class session. These observations are not intended as critiques, nor are they meant to be a way to gather feedback about performance. Instead, the program provides an opportunity for real-world classroom observations about the pedagogical choices we make as educators and to reflect on one's own teaching practice.
Would you like to observe one of your colleagues teach to see how they engage students, utilize the environment, or address challenging subjects? Do you ever feel isolated as you develop your teaching practice? You are not alone. The Center for Faculty Excellence works to shift this isolation by creating opportunities for building community around teaching.
The belief in a ’community of scholars’ often founders on the reality that teaching is a solitary experience. Teaching will be valued more by the academic community and society-at-large if it becomes more visible and accessible to the community.
Lee Shulman,Teaching as community property; putting an end to pedagogical solitude
References
Shulman, L. S. (1993). Teaching as community property. Change, 25(6), 6. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/teaching-as-community-prope…
Relevant Documents
Week of Teaching Visits F23 - Class Sessions -
A Week of Teaching Visits 2023 schedule of classes v1.pdf (85.56 KB)
This document contains a list of over 50 sessions offered by faculty across all 5 schools mostly during the week of Nov 6 - 10, 2023.
2023 Power of Observation Handout -
2023 Power of Observation Handout - Copy.pdf (173.34 KB)
Guidelines and reflection questions for teaching visits.