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Annual Dialogue inLearning and Teaching:
Richard WardEducational Development AdviserLearning and Teaching Services
Background: Peer Observation
• Responded to Institutional Audit.
• A ubiquitous methodology in all levels of teaching.
• Managed through Heads of Department.
• A range of forms associated with the process.
• One of many developmental tools available.
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Key Outcomes from 2007-2008Summary of Key facts
• Participating academic departments/schools: 43
• Non-participating departments: 3
• Participating professional services departments: 1
• Percentage of academic departments making a
return: 95%
• Thirty-six departments offered some evidence of examples of good practice in learning and teaching:79%
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Exploring Developmental Activities
Lecture
‘Lesson’
Plans
Course Design Forms
Module Outline
sAssessment Methodology
Mark scheme
s / criteria
Marking
Feedback
Student Evaluatio
ns
Response to
student evaluatio
ns
Supervision
Online
Funding Applicatio
ns
Assessment questions
SeminarTutorial Fieldwor
k
Lab / clinic
/ studio
Supervision
Lab Scripts
Repurposing Peer Observation Time in the Department of Landscape• Group exploration of a themed area
• Looking in detail at approaches to feedback on assessment
• Sharing experiences and best practice
• Responding to student feedback
Are there themes in your Department/School
that could be explored in this way?
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Why an Annual Dialogue?
• Academically led ongoing peer support for teaching development.
• Emphasis on flexibility and choice.
• Ongoing peer supported dialogue, not a snap-shot of practice.
• Focus on a range of approaches to meeting developmental needs. Peer Observation available if needed.
• Assist targeting of priorities in teaching practice and learner support.
• Robust, but minimal paperwork.• Promote attention to the student experience.
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Benefits of Annual Dialogue
• Premised on the idea that all involved in teaching will be seeking to develop their teaching.
• Peer supported developmental activity should use, build upon and broaden supportive relationships/teamwork.
• Reflection on agreed actions should aid individual development and monitoring of personal milestones.
• Trust , enhanced scholarship and effectiveness in meeting student needs remain key principles.
• Inter-disciplinary approaches are welcome.
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Annual Dialogue - Dimensions
Personal
Faculty /
Institutional
Departmental
Key PrinciplesThe Annual Dialogue will:
1. Serve a developmental function: enhancement of personal practice and the student experience.
2. Normally be available to all staff, including part-time staff and graduate teaching assistants.
3. Provide opportunities to consider personal developmental goals alongside wider strategic goals in learning and teaching.
4. Rely on the activity being valued and supported in departments and faculties.
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Establishing a Focus
The Annual Dialogue may explore:
• Identified personal developmental needs and plans (e.g. objectives agreed via SRDS).
• The impact on practice of specific developments in the curriculum (e.g. responding to growth of student numbers, new programmes, adopting and or exploring specific technologies).
• Goals set in the Departmental Learning and Teaching Strategy and in Faculty-wide strategies.
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• There is no formal requirement to link to SRDS. • Individual choice on whether and how to use outcomes
from Annual Dialogue.
• Departments may want to address certain issues on a group basis.
• Confidentiality and personal boundaries should be discussed and agreed in peer pairings/groups.
• A record should be maintained of outcomes and achievements. Reporting to the Department should principally relate to participation.
• Annual Dialogue activities can, as agreed, inform aspects of the Annual Reflection on Learning and Teaching.
Selected Further Points
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Where to find out more
http://www.shef.ac.uk/lets/lt-supp
Ext. 21358
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