Instructors can request confidential consultations with a teaching consultant to receive individualized support to help improve and assess their teaching.

Teaching Center staff conduct syllabus, course material, lesson plan, learning activity, course shell, and/or assessment reviews and provide feedback for improvement.

Teaching portfolios allow instructors to document the scope and quality of their teaching performance with evidence from a variety of sources such as syllabi, graded student work, feedback from students and observers, their own self-assessments and reflections, and more.

Self-assessments allow instructors to reflect upon and describe their teaching and learning goals, challenges, and accomplishments.

Observation reports provide instructors with a summary of teaching practices observed by a teaching consultant during multiple class sessions and feedback to be used to improve teaching and learning.

The Teaching Center assists faculty with gathering, interpreting, and making improvements to teaching based on several types of student feedback: midterm course surveys, small group instructional diagnoses, and student opinion of teaching surveys.

Teaching Center staff can work with you or your department to identify or develop protocols and/or tools tailored to the needs of you or your department to conduct peer reviews and observations of teaching.

The Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE) created a set of recommendations to expand and improve assessment of teaching effectiveness at Pitt, including the recommendation that academic units should create assessment of teaching plans.