Confidential consultations on any aspect of teaching are offered by CITLS staff.
Any faculty member can leverage the expertise of CITLS staff or Student Pedagogical Partners to observe their classes for general feedback, when trying out a particular teaching strategy, or just to have another eye. Our classroom observations are formative and not evaluative in nature, as well as confidential. CITLS staff members and Student Pedagogical Partners are also trained to use various published observational protocols that can provide a wealth of information on teaching practices. CITLS staff can also videotape your classes and support you in self-reflecting on your own teaching.
Observations with Student Pedagogical Partners are dependent upon student availability. Request an observation and learn more about Student-Faculty Pedagogical Partnerships on our webpage.
Contact CITLS (citls@lafayette.edu) for more information or to request a classroom observation from a CITLS staff member.
CITLS offers personalized, confidential reviews of course evaluations to support your teaching efforts. During a consultation, we will model how we would conduct a thematic analysis to extract useful information, and how we would modify instruction as appropriate. Then, we will support you in carrying out the same process on your course evaluations. Working through these steps will help you identify which areas students perceived to go particularly well in your course and any areas of growth. Please contact CITLS (citls@lafayette.edu) for more information or to request a consult.
Please note: “CITLS is not involved in PTR-related evaluations of teaching. All feedback is for formative usage only, not evaluative, and is expected to be used for those intended purposes. If you have pedagogical questions related to promotion and tenure, please consult the proper contacts at Lafayette. If you have any questions about CITLS’ role, please do not hesitate to ask. We look forward to supporting your teaching efforts.”
The Who’s in Class? Form, developed in collaboration with students, faculty, and staff members, helps instructors foster an inclusive learning environment early on and throughout a course by increasing their awareness of the diverse assets that their students bring to the classroom. Instructors administer the anonymous form online in their courses at the start of the semester, and students complete it on a voluntary basis. Instructors view results in aggregate, and partner with their center for teaching and learning to discuss small, focused steps for making their courses more inclusive. View the published article and freely access the form in the supplementary materials to see the questions and the context in which it has been used.
For Lafayette faculty members interested in using the Who’s in Class? Form, CITLS will share a pre-set survey with links to view the aggregate results. Alternatively, for those wishing to customize the survey, CITLS will share a Google Forms Template that can be altered to fit your individual needs. Contact us at citls@lafayette.edu.