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Collaborative peer review of teaching (CPRT). http://mavdisk.mnsu.edu/parsnk/Archive%202007-8/POL371/website/Course%20Website_files/image003.jpg. Session overview. Welcome Peer review – why do we need it? What is peer review? The Faculty’s CPRT program What is good teaching?
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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
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
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
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
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
Faculty’s CPRT program: Approach • Developmental • Accessible • Supportive • Confidential • Flexible • Reflective • Sustainable Faculty of Business and Law
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
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
What isn’t good teaching? Faculty of Business and Law
……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
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
..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
…. 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
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