Collaborative peer review Collaborative peer review of teaching (CPRT)of teaching (CPRT)

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Session overviewSession overview

WelcomePeer review – why do we need it?What is peer review?The Faculty’s CPRT programWhat is good teaching?Feedback – how to give and receive itForming review teams

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Peer review – why do we Peer review – why do we need it? need it?

Developments in peer review in Australian higher education

Purposes served by peer review processes

Approaches to peer review

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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.

What is peer review?What is peer review?

Approaches to peer reviewPeer observation versus peer

reviewTeaching practices that can be

reviewed ◦Lectures◦Tutorials◦DSO sites◦ Assessment practices◦Other?

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Faculty’s CPRT program: 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

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Faculty’s CPRT program:Faculty’s CPRT program:

Approach◦Developmental◦Accessible ◦Supportive◦Confidential ◦Flexible◦Reflective◦Sustainable

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Faculty’s CPRT program:Faculty’s CPRT program:

Flexible models

Person A

Person B

Person C

Person A

Person B

3-person or 2-person model

peer or ‘expert’ reviewer

within or across discipline

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Faculty’s CPRT program: 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

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What isn’t good teaching?What isn’t good teaching?

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…………good teaching isgood teaching is

peer review of teaching needs a focus on learning which occurs as a result of teaching

peer review of teaching needs a focus on learning which occurs as a result of teaching

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Chinese ProverbSource: http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29226.html accessed 23 February 2009

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Judging “good” teachingJudging “good” teaching

You be the judge! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

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..or..or

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Have you reached a verdict?

……. or. or

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student focused student diversityactive and challenging learningup to date knowledge assessment and feedback used strategicallyreflects on teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

http://www.deakin.edu.au/itl/pd/tl-modules/schorly/framework-peer-review09.pdf

HANDBOOK

What’s next?What’s next?Decide what you

would like reviewed.Decide which method

of review you prefer.If appropriate - form

a review teamDiscuss within your

team ‘what’ each members wants reviewed.

Set dates and times for reviews.

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