Faculty colleagues are an important source of feedback on one’s teaching. Such peer feedback usually involves classroom teaching observations and dialogues around what’s observed.
Such feedback serves to inform your professional reflection and in and of itself, is a powerful teaching development platform. It serves as an additional credible data points for summative evaluations within your school during yearly appraisals, promotion and tenure applications. In this context, it provides a different teaching-oriented perspective from that of student feedback. Students have limited disciplinary training and may not be well positioned to comment on certain issues such as pedagogical alignment and aspects involving broader institutional goals or values. Further they may possess biases against faculty which are unrelated to teaching effectiveness.
Here are some avenues where CTE can assist you to arrange to receive or exchange peer feedback on teaching:
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