Collaborative peer review of teaching (CPRT)

1. Collaborative peer review of teaching (CPRT) http://mavdisk.mnsu.edu/parsnk/Archive%202007-8/POL371/website/Course%20Website_files/image003.jpg Faculty of Business and Law

2. Session overview • Welcome • Peer review – why do we need it? • What is peer review? • The Faculty’s CPRT program • What is good teaching? • Feedback – how to give and receive it • Forming review teams Faculty of Business and Law

3. Peer review – why do we need it? • Developments in peer review in Australian higher education • Purposes served by peer review processes • Approaches to peer review We must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.(Parker J. Palmer) Source: Palmer, P.J. 1998 The Courage to Teach Jossey-Bass Inc, San Francisco, p. 12. Faculty of Business and Law

4. What is peer review? • Approaches to peer review • Peer observation versus peer review • Teaching practices that can be reviewed • Lectures • Tutorials • DSO sites • Assessment practices • Other? Faculty of Business and Law

5. Faculty’s CPRT program: Aims • Quality to teaching and learning • Collaboration and discussion • Dissemination of good practice • Self-reflection and scholarship • Recognition of effective practices Faculty of Business and Law

6. Faculty’s CPRT program: Approach • Developmental • Accessible • Supportive • Confidential • Flexible • Reflective • Sustainable Faculty of Business and Law

7. Faculty’s CPRT program: Flexible models 3-person or 2-person model Person A Person B Person C peer or ‘expert’ reviewer within or across discipline Person A Person B Faculty of Business and Law

8. Faculty’s CPRT program: The review cycle: • Introductory session – today • Pre-observation/review session • Observation or review • Post-meeting • Reflection • Group feedback and evaluation – 30 October Faculty of Business and Law

9. What isn’t good teaching? Faculty of Business and Law

10. ……good teaching is Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb Source: http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29226.html accessed 23 February 2009 peer review of teaching needs a focus on learning which occurs as a result of teaching http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:I3mEhepcznaC1M:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7dPK9ryQY_s/RtJxbF4B6QI/AAAAAAAAAVw/1ci0JK_OkYo/s320/kkid.jpg

11. Judging “good” teaching You be the judge! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY . http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:pmNL1E7nU_rxqM:http://cooldinners.com/images/qalogo.gif

12. ..or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3ae9w4yQr0 Have you reached a verdict? http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:KQuLOLICUgpDOM:http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/judge.jpg

13. …. or • student focused • student diversity • active and challenging learning • up to date knowledge • assessment and feedback used strategically • reflects on teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning. HANDBOOK http://www.deakin.edu.au/itl/pd/tl-modules/schorly/framework-peer-review09.pdf Faculty of Business and Law

14. What’s next? • Decide what you would like reviewed. • Decide which method of review you prefer. • If appropriate - form a review team • Discuss within your team ‘what’ each members wants reviewed. • Set dates and times for reviews. • Other issues? Faculty of Business and Law