2. For more information ...
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Quality, Teaching, and Learning
Foundations of Learning and Teaching (FULT)
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3. Peer Observation Partnerships –
How do they work?
Plan
Meet and Discuss
Teach
Individual Reflection
Meet and Discuss
Written Feedback
Change Roles
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5. Who to
choose…
Identify colleagues
who are willing to
be involved and
whom you trust to
be a ‘critical friend’
(Handal, 1992)
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6. What do you want to achieve?
General feedback
Investigate a ‘problem’
Share ideas
Discover what others are doing
Evaluate effectiveness
Articulate philosophy
Develop a teaching portfolio
Create an open, collegial
approach in your department
Test a teaching resource or
method
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11. How will you know the Peer Observation
Partnership was effective …
Positive outcomes relate to personal skills and
attributes, and the ability to give and receive
critical feedback ~ critique.
Means for ongoing
Professional Development.
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12. Stocking your library
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Blackwell, R. (1996). Peer observation of teaching & staff development.
Higher education quarterly, 50, 156-171.
Donnelly, R. (2007). Perceived impact of peer observation of teaching in
higher education. International journal of higher education, 19, 117-129.
Handal, G. (1999). Consulting using critical friends. New directions for
teaching and learning, 79, Fall, 59-70.
McMahon, T., Barrett, T. & O’Neill, G. (2007). Using observation of
teaching to improve quality: Finding your way through the muddle of
competing conceptions, confusion of practice and mutually exclusive
intentions. Teaching in higher education, 12, 499-511.
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