Instructional coaches can support novice teachers by facilitating a meaningful process of peer feedback.

Accordingly, peer observations of teaching provide another measure of teaching effectiveness, including alignment between an instructor’s goals and student learning, which affords both the observer ...

This program focuses on two aspects of Peer-to-Peer support of teaching: Teaching Observations and Peer Shadowing. Through observations, shadowing, and modeling best practices we can increase the ...

The Faculty Teaching Fellows are an ACM-funded cohort of faculty at St. Olaf, Carleton, and Luther Colleges, practiced in peer observation of teaching, who can provide compassionate, low-stakes, ...

While teaching can be isolating (we walk into our classrooms and shut our doors to work), there are ways to increase peer observations and grow together. The type of job-embedded and ongoing ...

Then, after each round of observations have been completed, the pair meets in a small group to debrief what they learned—a peer coaching community-of-practice meeting. Later in the fall, pairs hold ...

Why peer observation of teaching? Peer observation of teaching is an enabling process, for staff with teaching responsibilities to reflect on and improve their teaching practice. The process is ...

Peer evaluators may wish to undergo training to more accurately measure effective teaching through a measured review of course materials, teaching observations, and pre/post observation conversations.

The peer observation model can also make newer teachers feel less isolated and more prepared when an administrator comes in for a formal evaluation, Johnson added. But like any other tool ...

Peer observations have often become bureaucratic evaluations. At some institutions, untenured faculty encounter several teaching evaluations over their first five years, performed by the chair or ...

Development-focused models such as collegial faculty development and collaborative peer-observation circles emphasise shared reflection but often lack expert input or formal recognition. The RPTD ...