Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

2010

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2010) 28

doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0028.010

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License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

A central mission of teaching and learning centers is to help faculty members improve their teaching. The teaching observation is an established tool to support this effort. Although educational developers have created general guides and forms for conducting teaching observations, the literature contains few examples of observation narratives. This chapter offers detailed examples of these narratives, deconstructing the process and demonstrating the value of narrative to document teaching behaviors. This chapter extends and develops the literature, showing how—and making explicit why—we do what we do, in the interest of making our work transparent and replicable.

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