Choose Your Own Adventure with the CHSS Teaching Committee!

Choose your own adventure with the CHSS Teaching Committee! Step 1: Visit our Online Form (uvu.edu/chss/resources). Step 2: Choose your course & modality! Face-to-face, hybrid (online or live), live stream, online asynchronous. Step 3: Choose your feedback. Classic CHSS Teaching Committee Form, Teaching Excellence Form, RTP File letter, etc. Step 4: Pre-Observation Process. Talk to your observer about your goals, specify the feedback you want, contextualize your class session/module. Step 5: Observation! Observer attends live class or livestream or watches recording, or walk your observer through Canvas for online course. Step 6: Debrief. Meet with your observer to discuss: what makes you awesome? Get suggestions, ask follow up questions. Get official feedback for your own purposes. Step 7: Give us feedback! Use the link to the satisfaction survey to help us improve our service to you! For more information: Dr. Rachel Arocho, CHSS Teaching Committee Chair, rachel.arocho@uvu.edu, https://www.uvu.edu/chss/resources.html

CHSS Teaching Committee's Top 5 Reasons for Peer Review! 1: Become a part of a community built around teaching. The CHSS Teaching Committee peer review process is a learning community, encouraging confidential conversations and feedback. 2: Great teachers are made, rather than born. We're moving away from this detrimental stereotype and supporting the development of our faculty. 3: Low-stakes, good outcomes! Peer observations allow for low-stakes opportunities to engage in helpful conversations about teaching strategies. 4: Take chances! We support creative pedagogical development and practices and are eager to provide feedback through peer observation. 5: It's a teaching opportunity, not a punishment! Peer reviews are chances to celebrate your strengths and excellence while also considering areas of growth and development.

Resources used to inform this list: How Peer Review Could Improve Our Teaching

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