TESTIMONIALS
What are people saying about our presentations?
Suzanne Tapp
Assistant Vice Provost of Faculty Success & Managing Director Teaching, Learning, & Professional Development Center
Texas Tech University
“Lauren Barbeau and Claudia Cornejo Happel came to Texas Tech University as keynote speakers for one of our annual teaching conferences. They partner beautifully and build off of each other’s styles and insight. In one day, they helped us move at least a year ahead in our Teaching Evaluation Initiative as they applied their evidence-based framework to our context and facilitated our conversations. I cannot recommend them highly enough!”
Paul Gebb
Director Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Oklahoma City University
“Lauren Barbeau's virtual workshop, ‘Who Tells Your Story?: Faculty Reflection and Agency in Documenting Teaching Effectiveness,’ was poignant and timely for our Faculty Colloquium. Faculty are in the process of updating our University's promotion and tenure guidelines. In a time where faculty decide how to describe and measure teaching behaviors/effectiveness this workshop and handouts from the book Critical Teaching Behaviors provides an excellent framework to revise language. This update was needed to reflect the current classroom environment. We found the Critical Teaching Behaviors Framework to be especially useful with columns that differentiate behaviors and how they can be represented with numerous examples. This workshop has impacted our community greatly.”
Tracy Marcella Addy
Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning | Director of the Center for the Integration of Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship
Lafayette College
“We enjoyed Dr. Lauren Barbeau's visit to our campus. She was a wonderful workshop facilitator. Our College has a fairly developed formal evaluative classroom observation process, and our faculty and staff members appreciated learning about the Critical Teaching Behaviors Framework that she co-developed. We now will think differently about how to measure and document good teaching.”
Anonymous Feedback
“I think the [keynote] was facilitated very well by the two speakers! They were both engaging, and convincing in how they provided the information. Also the material that they handed out was well structured and supports the learning process and also the opportunity of having some "hands-on" activities in between help me to comprehend and have some concrete take aways for my teaching!”
New York Institute of Technology, 2024
“Well timed. Well paced. Very engaging and well organized. I liked how you set everything up. It gave me something real to focus on rather than focusing on what the college has created for me to fit in. This is real and authentic. Thank you.”
The Teaching Professor Conference Presentation, New Orleans 2024
“I was so thrilled to see Lauren present in person after participating in a CTB Reading Community last year. She was engaging, organized, and effective!”
Georgia Southern University, 2024
“Fantastic presentation! In six steps, it clearly explained how to be great educator and engage our students. I love the thought-provoking questions to think about our student’s needs!”
Lilly Conference Plenary, Austin 2024
“The session provided a great starting point and specific areas to focus when considering peer observation.”
Lafayette College, 2024
“Claudia's presentation of the CTB framework was extremely helpful to experience as I navigate the promotion process and the creation of dossier materials. I appreciated especially the breakdown of the six different categories in terms of the evidence demonstrated by scholarship that these practices have real impact on student success. I feel empowered to define my own core values and provide materials that illustrate how these guide my behaviors and choices and demonstrate effectiveness.”
Indiana University—Bloomington, 2023
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CriticalTeachingBehaviors@gmail.com