The teaching performance evaluation is one of the essential strategies to achieve the teaching quality in educational institutions in general, and higher education in particular; however, exercises made in several universities in the country have focused more on administrative intended than formative; in this context, the objective of this paper is to present the teacher evaluation process developed at the Universidad del Caribe from a formative position and to evaluate the practice with its educational model, understood as an assessment of teaching skills, to obtain information for decision-making, improving the quality of teaching, and consequently, learning. This process is structured in two actions: the application of an instrument to students about the work of their teachers, and in turn they make a self-evaluation; and teacher monitoring, which is an education specialist visit to the teacher´s class. This is perceived as an evaluation which puts the teacher at the center of the problem, and, at the same time, put him as the best solution.

Evaluation of teaching, teachers, educational model, higher education.