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The CET provides Boston University faculty on the Charles River Campus opportunities to receive formative feedback about teaching in a collegial, nonjudgmental environment. This is accomplished through the CET's teaching consultations program.
The CET can facilitate two different kinds of confidential teaching consultations:
- Individual Consultations: discussions, classroom observations with feedback, or other interactions by one of the CET directors
- Faculty Peer Advising: classroom observation by one or two senior faculty members from departments outside that of the instructor being observed.
The Individual Consultations could include a classroom observation, one or more consultating sessions to examine pedagogical goals and objectives, or a focus on course content. Please contact us if you are interested in scheduling an individual consultation with the CET.
Boston University faculty also may receive more structured assistance with their teaching through Faculty Peer Advising. A faculty member may request a classroom observation of their teaching by other faculty members through the Faculty Peer Advising program. The CET will recruit one or two faculty consultants who are recognized as excellent teachers and who have some knowledge of the subject area of the course(s) taught by the instructor requesting the consultation..
Faculty requesting classroom observation will meet with the consultants in a pre-observation meeting, will be observed in the classroom, and will discuss the classroom visit in a post-observation meeting. The suggestions offered by the consultants are advisory only, and no report or record of the consultation is retained. That is, no one besides the faculty member being observed, the consultants, and the CET directors will be aware that a consulation has taken place unless the observed faculty member requests that another person be so informed.
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