Peer Consultation Program What is the Peer Consultation

Peer Consultation Program

What is the Peer Consultation Program? • A safe, supportive, and confidential program designed to provide instructors with formative feedback and advice on their teaching • Promotes reflective practice • Learning-centred approach for active and reflective practitioners who want to improve their teaching and their students’ learning

Main Goals • To support and enhance the teaching skills and confidence of faculty and sessional instructors through critical learning conversations focused on learners and their learning. • To foster collaboration between peers sharing similar interests and experiences about teaching and learning (multidisciplinary collaboration). • To provide a safe environment enabling people to engage in an active process of reflection on and experimentation in their teaching practices. • To engage broad and varied teaching community members across campus.

What it is not… • A formal, summative evaluation of teaching • Meant to be used at annual review (Faculty Evaluation Committee [FEC])

Who are the Peer Consultants? • Volunteers, who are all teachers at the University of Alberta • Range of teaching experiences and backgrounds • Many have been recognized for their excellence in teaching • Trained in the Peer Consultation process

What is involved? Possible collaborative activities: • Guided observation of a peer consultant’s class with a debriefing session • Classroom observation(s) by a peer consultant • Video recording of a teaching session and self-/peerassessment • Development of a questionnaire to solicit student feedback • Focus group discussion with students lead by the peer consultant • A confidential report summarizing the process

confidential reflective flexible Collaborative peer development conversational Learner centred & instructor controlled

How can I participate? If you are interested in the Peer Consultation Program: • Contact CTL: ctl@ualberta. ca • Initial meeting to discuss interests, needs • Paired with a trained Peer Consultant • You and the Peer Consultant decide on the process you’d like to follow

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Want to Learn More? email us at ctl@ualberta. ca