[Academic] Peer observation/review of teaching

[Brian]

Dear All,

It was agreed at the latest Teaching and Departmental meetings that we 
should begin a peer review process of our teaching methods this 
Semester. This will involve colleagues agreeing to observe each other's 
teaching under normal circumstances.

The process is completely voluntary and has been developed within the 
Department without any input or requirements from the University. The 
idea is to use a relatively simple method to help us improve our own 
teaching skills. See the attached Information and Form that will be used 
in the peer-review process.

We would encourage you to take part and team up with a colleague soon to 
start the review process as described in the attached.

Please note that you are not required to submit any forms. The minimum 
required would be to inform me who has teamed up with whom.  It would be 
very helpful if you did submit your forms to me, though, as this will 
allow me to collect comments etc to see if there are any common themes. 
The collection of comments/observations would be *completely 
**anonymised *before anybody else has access.

So, I would encourage you to take part in this trial. We will 
undoubtedly learn lessons from it and modify the process accordingly 
before we roll it out further next Academic Year.

I personally have gone through this peer-review process previously (with 
feedback from the Observer) and can highly recommend it. It is amazing 
how some relatively small changes to teaching style/methods, made as a 
result of a review, can greatly improve one's teaching skill and student 
experience.

So, if you could please start to team up with a colleague, inform me 
once this has been done, and then start the review process as described.

Many thanks,

Brian.

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Dr. Brian WJ McNeil
Department of Physics, SUPA & Cockcroft Institute
University of Strathclyde
107 Rottenrow East
Glasgow, G4 0NG
Scotland

Tel:    0141 548 4727
Fax:    0141 552 2891

The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC015263
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