We want participants on our courses on teaching in higher education to
receive peer feedback.
We soon gave up trying to develop a single observation form that would work
for all teachers and all subjects. Instead, we thought about how peer
observation should be planned; about how the observation could be recorded;
and about how the lecturer could be helped to reflect on, and then make use
of, the results of the observation.
We developed a four stage peer observation process, described in this form:
<<Peer Observation Schedule.doc>>
Judging from the portfolios we have assessed, this approach seems to work
well. Of course it could be combined with a detailed observation schedule.
Even so, we'd still recommend that the observed has considerable say in what
aspects of their teaching the observer concentrates on each time. This helps
to make peer observation a truly peer process, rather than something which
the observer does to the observed.
The process could be enriched by asking the observer to keep copies of each
of stages 1, 2 and 3, and then to reflect at their own stage four on the
implications of stages one to three for the observer's own teaching.
(Observant readers will have seen a four-stage learning cycle underpinning
this process!)
David
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David Baume
Director (Teaching Development)
Centre for Higher Education Practice
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
UK
Phone +44 (0)1908 858436
Fax +44 (0)1908 858438
Web site http://cehep.open.ac.uk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Swannell, Malcolm [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 30 November 2000 12:21
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Peer observation
>
> We piloted Peer Review a couple of years ago and are now formalising it
> with
> all staff in the department. Our attach some documentation that we are
> using with this process.
>
>
>
> Dr Malcolm Swannell
> Learning & Teaching Coordinator
> Faculty of Engineering & Computing
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 10:49 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Peer observation
>
>
> Peer observation of teaching is alive and well at Brighton Business School
> but we are having difficulty in agreeing a form of recording the
> observation
> which is acceptable across the many disciplines. We are not happy with the
> very prescribed forms used by some e.g. QAA subject review but think
> keeping virtually everything confidential except the names and date and
> type
> of session observed will not enable good practice to be spread
> effectively,
> especially across disciplines. Samples of methods of recording peer
> observation which have evolved to meet the needs of observer, observed and
> others who might benefit from hearing of good practice would be most
> welcome.
>
> Alison Bone
> Head of Law Group
> University of Brighton
> << File: Peer_review.doc >>
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