Peer Feedback and Teaching Retreat
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled in the winter term
Welcome to CLT’s Peer Feedback and Teaching Retreat. The two days of sessions are dedicated to topics and support in engaging in peer feedback! Each session invites you to consider a different aspect of giving and/or receiving supportive development-centered feedback.
Information about the retreat and individual sessions is described below.
Format
Depending on your availability and specific interests, you are welcome to attend individual sessions or the full suite of sessions. This dedicated time will allow you to think about the ways that you might engage in formative feedback from peers that can support and strengthen your teaching.
There are two types of sessions:
Building Sessions (online): Each morning will consist of shorter sessions that invite you to build on your understanding of the various forms that peer review can take and how these forms may be helpful in your own teaching and course(s).
Circle Workshops (in-person): The afternoon sessions are 2-hrs in length and provide an opportunity to engage in practices of formative peer feedback with fellow attendees. Attendees will be offered the opportunity to share their own teaching materials and/or teaching experiences with each other during the session.
Who should attend?
These sessions are intended to be a place of discussion and learning for those who are both new and familiar with peer feedback of teaching. This includes:
- Individual instructors seeking professional development based in peer development and formative peer evaluation, and/or seeking to connect with peers from across Dalhousie interested in engaging in formative peer review
- Individuals who are taking on the role of reviewer as part of procedures in their individual Faculty
- Limited-term faculty who are seeking support in documenting their teaching effectiveness.
Goals
Participation may provide you with:
- Experience within a formative peer review process that is based in equitable practices and grounded in principles of reflexivity, humility, relationality, and collaboration.
- Familiarization with peer review practices and instruments to increase comfortability and proficiency in roles of both reviewer and reviewee.
- An opportunity to engage with peers and offer critical feedback and friendly critique
- Time, space and support for individual reflection on teaching practices and strategies
Schedule
Date |
Time, location |
Title |
Description |
Nov 14 |
9:00-9:30 AM online |
Information Session: Holistic Evaluation of Teaching at Dalhousie: An Overview |
In this information session, we will provide an overview of the new holistic evaluation of teaching policy at Dalhousie and describe how evidence from peers plays a part in outlining your teaching effectiveness. |
Nov 14 |
9:30-9:55 AM online |
Open Discussion: Who is a peer? |
In this open discussion, we will pose the question to attendees: “who is a peer when we talk about peer feedback on teaching and learning?” |
Nov 14 |
10:00 -11 AM online |
Collaborative Peer Review: Models and Practices |
This session provides an overview of collaborative peer review (in contrast to evaluative review) and a presentation of some existing models and associated practices. |
Nov 14 |
11 AM -12 PM online |
The Peer Review Cycle: Six steps, broadly defined |
This session provides an overview of a formative and developmental peer review cycle. Each step—establish purpose and goals; select reviewer; hold pre-observation meeting; observation; hold post-observation meeting; and reflect and develop action plan—are described generally, with discussion on how they may take shape within different peer review models and practices. The 15-minute open discussion portion of the session will lead participants through the first step, establishing one’s purpose for undergoing peer review. |
Nov 14 |
1:30-3:30 PM B400, Killam |
Circle Workshop |
This workshop is offered on both day 1 and day 2 of the retreat. Participants are welcome to join either or both days. This workshop is an opportunity to gain practice in formative peer review/feedback. Participants will engage in important preparatory & collaborative practices to develop collegial, humble and culturally responsive orientations to peer feedback/review within both roles of reviewee and reviewer. This session is informed by reflexive observational approaches to peer feedback/review. Participants will have the chance to engage with one another’s teaching or teaching artifacts. |
Nov 21 |
10 AM -11 AM online |
Peer Observation: What to Consider and Available Tools |
Peer review of teaching may include in-class observations and/or providing feedback on a variety of teaching artifacts and practices. Within this, there are many aspects of teaching that may be of interest. It is important to discuss and decide what it is you want your peer to observe or review (as the instructor) and how you might go about collecting information (as an observer). In this session, we will look at various dimensions of teaching that you may seek feedback on and some tools and strategies already available that might help when it comes time to collect and present data on your teaching. |
Nov 21 |
11 – 11:45 AM online
|
Peer Feedback of Online and Remote Teaching |
The ways that we deliver and design learning for the online environment, as well as the ways students interact with the material, instructor, and their peers, can differ compared to the face-to-face environment. In this session, we will review some of these differences and the approaches you may take to engage in the peer review process for online teaching. We will also briefly touch on some options for remote observations of teaching for face-to-face teaching. |
Nov 21 |
11:50 AM – 12:20 PM online |
Creating New Norms: Steps forward for Peer Feedback |
In this interactive session, participants will discuss opportunities for developing informal peer feedback processes in their respective departments and/or teaching communities. |
Nov 21 |
1:30-3:30 PM B400, Killam |
Circle Workshop |
This workshop is offered on both day 1 and day 2 of the retreat. Participants are welcome to join either or both days. This workshop is an opportunity to gain practice in formative peer review/feedback. Participants will engage in important preparatory & collaborative practices to develop collegial, humble and culturally responsive orientations to peer feedback/review within both roles of reviewee and reviewer. This session is informed by reflexive observational approaches to peer feedback/review. Participants will have the chance to engage with one another’s teaching or teaching artifacts. |