Only the CTL Student Associate and the student consultant will have knowledge of the consultation. When the consultant and the faculty member meet to discuss the consultation before it occurs, the professor decides what will be said to the students regarding why the student is in the classroom. The Student Consultation Program attempts to provide a totally confidential environment to preserve faculty privacy and avoid involvement with university job evaluations. Sequence of Events Instructor contacts CTL student associate and requests consultation. Student associate then matches instructor with consultant.
Consultant then contacts instructor for pre-observation conference.
CTL Student Associate sends instructor a consultant questionnaire. These students have been trained in the consultation process and understand the importance of confidentiality. Faculty may choose to use the student consultants in the manner that will best fulfill their needs. Consultants are not experts in the field of teaching and learning, but by being students they provide advantages in the consultation process. They have experience as lifetime students and are not a member of the class that they observe so the feedback that is generated is from the student's perspective and unbiased.