The Faculty Council on Teaching and Learning has used an iterative process to develop recommendations for performing collegial teaching reviews. The goal of collegial course review is to provide formative feedback on teaching and document reflective teaching practices.
We are currently piloting our recommended process and template linked below. We invite you to use and/or review these recommendations and provide feedback to the FCTL collegial review subcommittee using this feedback form.
These recommendations are designed to support implementation of changes to the UW faculty code passed in Spring 2025 (Faculty Code sect 24-32) that require teaching to be evaluated on 5 core elements of effective teaching. You can find further details on the process leading to adoption of these core elements on the Office of the Provost page on the future of teaching and learning. These basic, foundational elements are, by design, intentionally broad and meant to be applicable in any discipline and teaching context on all UW campuses. Taking into consideration disciplinary and instructional contexts, the assessment of teaching effectiveness must consider all five core elements and must include student and faculty evaluation.
If departments/units have an existing collegial review process that already conforms to best practices, they are encouraged to adapt their existing process to include review of the 5 core elements.
To learn more about the iterative process by which FCTL developed these recommendations, please see our summary page.