Teaching Resources
Peer Review of Teaching
Websites
www.rdg.ac.uk/Handbooks/Teaching_and_Learning/Peer_Review_Guidelines.html
Provides good guidance on peer review other than only direct observation of classroom teaching. Could help to answer the million dollar questions about improving student learning, assessment, all that.
www.nottingham.ac.uk/sedu/peerobs/
A framework that includes advice on giving and receiving feedback, along with three forms (lecturer, observer, and post-observation reflection)
www.provost.wisc.edu/archives/ccae/MOO/
Guidance on Peer Review of Teaching from how and why to do it, to what counts as evidence, to designing a new program.
www.ntlf.com/html/lib/suppmat/ts/tsparticipanthandbook.pdf
The Teaching Squares approach in which four people observe each other and draw lessons from the experience to apply to their own teaching.
www.courseportfolio.org
University of Nebraska Lincoln's amazing site on peer review of course portfolios (and an international repository of them) -- another option besides direct observation of instruction
www.cfkeep.org
The e-portfolio tool that's free and public for the dissemination of the scholarship of teaching and learning
Arreola, Raoul, 2004. Developing a comprehensive faculty evaluation system [sound recording] : a handbook for college faculty and administrators on designing and operating a comprehensive faculty evaluation system. Magna Publications. (the actual book published in 2000 is in McLaughlin Library)
This is great for Departments or Colleges wishing to come together to define all the aspects that one can measure (and everything boils down to comparable numbers, but in a compelling rather than objectionable way).
Books
Bernstein, Daniel et. al., 2006. Making Teaching and Learning Visible: Course Portfolios and the Peer Review of Teaching. Anker. New book to TSS and I haven't read it yet but the idea is one I'm familiar with and endorse (see Carnegie "KEEP Toolkit" link, above)
Braskamp, Larry and John Ory, 1994. Assessing faculty work : enhancing individual and institutional performance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. A bigger picture on how to assess the work of the professoriate beyond the counting of publications or student ratings.
Keig, Larry and Michael D. Waggoner, 1994. Collaborative Peer Review: The Role of Faculty in Improving College Teaching. AHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 2. Washington, D.C.: The George Washington University, School of Education and Human Development. Makes the case for formative evaluation of teaching through peer observation AND other means. Includes chapters on disincentives and incentives, includes lots of practical advice. Explains how formative evaluation can lead to quality improvement across systems.
Weimer, Maryellen et. al. How am I Teaching? Forms and activities for acquiring instructional input. Magna 1988. Everything from self-, student-, and peer-analysis of teaching. Instructor-driven but learning-centred at the same time. You can photocopy any of it with permission as long as you're using it for teaching development purposes.
