Herdsa 2009

Program - day 1 workshop 2

Title

Peer Review of Teaching for Promotion Purposes. Trialling the Documentation and Procedures Developed for an ALTC Project.

Presenters / facilitators

Geoffrey Crisp & Kerrie Le Lievre - Centre for Learning and Professional Development, University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia

Objectives / outcomes

By the completion of the workshop participants will be able to:

 

Intended audience

Staff involved in academic promotion processes; staff supporting and advising academics applying for promotion. Academic development staff and discipline-based teachers involved in staff development and learning and teaching improvement plans.

 

About the facilitators

Geoffrey Crisp is the Director for the Centre for Learning and Professional Development at the University of Adelaide. Geoff is a HERDSA Fellow and ALTC Associate Fellow; he is the leader for the ALTC project on ‘Peer Review of Teaching for promotion Purposes’.

Kerrie Le Lievre is the project officer for two ALTC projects, the Peer Review project and the Research Skills Development project; Kerrie has a PhD in English Literature.

 

Overview of activities

This session will present protocols and tools for summative peer review of classroom teaching and teaching portfolios. It will give participants the opportunity to test the training materials and documentation for peer review in a workshop setting.

 

Detailed plan of workshop
Workshop Phase Duration
Welcome and overview of session 5 mins
Distribution of Internal Peer Review documentation, brief introduction to the process 5 mins
View DVD of teaching session 5 mins
Fill in individual Internal peer review form 15 mins
Group discussion: differences and similarities between reports, and the reasons for these. Discussion of assessment criteria and use of evidence. 25 mins
Distribution of External Peer Review documentation, brief introduction to the process 5 mins
Read exemplar of teaching portfolios/application for promotion 15 mins
Fill in individual External peer review form 15 mins
Group discussion: differences and similarities between reports, and the reasons for these. Discussion of assessment criteria and use of evidence. 20 mins
Questions, comments, feedback. 10 mins
References

Download the full workshop plan (pdf)