Peer Feedback on Teaching
Inspiration for teaching comes from various sources. One of these is at the heart of the "Peer Feedback on Teaching" initiative launched by the rector and the Lecturers' Conference: mutual classroom visits and subsequent collegial feedback on teaching provide the participating lecturers with valuable suggestions and impulses for shaping their teaching, from which the students will also benefit in the end.
Lecturers who would like to give others an insight into their teaching and who themselves would like to have insights into the teaching of others can inform the Unit for Teaching and Learing (UTL) (see below). UTL will put interested lecturers in touch with each other, provide them with materials and recommendations, and offer further support if requested.
“I have learned a lot from seeing how others actually do it and what is possible.”Lecturer D-BAUG
“I found the peer feedback very valuable. When you have been teaching for many years, there are things, peculiarities, that you no longer notice yourself, but that others notice.”Lecturer D-ITET
“Peer feedback and student feedback complement each other, one cannot replace the other.”Lecturer D-MATH
You are interested in Peer Feedback on Teaching?
If you would like to participate in Peer Feedback on Teaching, please use the short registration form.
You and the other interested lecturers will then be provided by the LET with information, materials and recommendations on how to proceed.
If you do not wish to receive feedback for your course in the near future but are willing to give feedback to other lecturers, however, please register via the link above.
FAQ
- Please use our short registration form to tell us about your feedback interests.
- We will put together groups of lecturers whose interests match. If possible, we will form groups of three lecturers so that each group member receives feedback from two different perspectives.
- Once we have formed the groups, we will provide you and the other group members with information and recommendations on how to proceed.
- From then on, you organise the process among yourselves, i.e. you set the dates for preparation meetings, classroom visits and debriefings within your group by yourself and organise the meetings etc. on your own responsibility. Of course, we are always available for questions, comments, etc.
- At the end of the semester, we will contact you to ask for your suggestions for improving the described process.
Classroom visits are of course always possible by mutual agreement and do not have to be reported anywhere. However, since we would like to gain as much experience as possible with the implementation of peer feedback in the current pilot phase, we would be very pleased if you would contact us in any case and maybe get some inspiration from the materials available here.
Materials
- Download vertical_align_bottom Preparation meeting Peer Feedback on Teaching (DOCX, 38 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Observation form for classroom visits (without central questions/criteria) (DOCX, 37 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Observation form for classroom visits (with central questions) (DOCX, 37 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Observation form for classroom visits (with detailed criteria) (DOCX, 40 KB)
- Download vertical_align_bottom Debriefing meeting Peer Feedback on Teaching (DOCX, 37 KB)
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