Syllabus Review
What is a Syllabus Review?
Your syllabus is more than just a schedule: it’s often the first impression students have of your course and your teaching approach. A Syllabus Review offers a chance to ensure that this essential document communicates a clear, inclusive, and engaging learning environment right from the start.
Our team will work with you to review your syllabus with an eye toward instructional presence, clarity, consistency, and accessibility. We’ll offer suggestions that help streamline organization, strengthen your tone and communication, and align with best practices for inclusive and student-centered course design such as transparency, clarity and student engagement. Whether you’re looking to revise language, adjust layout, or highlight important policies more clearly, we’re here to help you shape a syllabus that sets the stage for success.
You’ll receive specific, actionable feedback you can use right away, and we’re happy to follow up to support revisions or help think through how your syllabus connects with the rest of your course materials. Whether you’re developing a new course or refining an existing one, we’re here to help you make your syllabus a strong, student-friendly foundation for learning.
What we offer you
Confidentiality. Though we may capture notes within our office, our consultations are confidential, and the content therein will not be shared with your teaching supervisor or others outside of our team.
Suggested strategies and implementation techniques to enhance teaching. There are many ways to enhance teaching. We can focus on quick, easy-to-implement strategies or build with you toward longer arcs of impact and design.
What we ask in return
A collaborative, willing attitude. This feedback is provided in the spirit of friendly collaboration and growth, not from a place of evaluation. We know that teaching practice can feel deeply personal. However, growth often comes from a place of discomfort, so we ask that you also approach consultation with an interest in self-reflection and professional growth.
Commitment to the process and implementing related changes. To align with our service objectives, we will follow up to gauge the implementation of discussed strategies. Consultation often involves multiple, time-intensive components (consulting, observing, surveying, analyzing data, reporting, etc.), so we ask that you commit to the process and the resulting incremental change.