Peer feedback
Formats and opportunities for exchange with colleagues and teaching design staff
Collegial observation
Collegial or peer observation is a cooperative, planned process of observing and giving feedback in an equal team of instructors. The team is formed by the teachers themselves. The observation takes place during a self-selected course unit at any time during the semester. Prior to the observation, a preparatory meeting takes place in which (non-)objectives and focal points of observation are clarified. The students are informed about the observation and the person observing records their observations in writing. After the observation, a feedback meeting takes place in which the impressions are shared and discussed.
The aim of peer observation is to compare self and external observations in an equal exchange with colleagues and to critically reflect on one's own teaching practices and subsequently develop them further.
Peer exchange and teaching portfolio review
The teaching portfolio writing process enables instructors to engage with colleagues beyond their own subject boundaries. From 2024, a self-organized peer tandem exchange will take place as part of the teaching portfolio writing process at the University of Graz, with the tandems being formed in the introductory workshop. In addition, you create a review of a teaching portfolio written at the University of Graz at your own discretion and enter into an exchange with the author via the review. The motto for all of this is:
Nothing is worse than creating something that nobody notices, writing something that nobody reads.
More on the potential of the teaching portfolio for exploring, developing and changing university teaching in a High Noon lecture with Birgit Szczyrba (2017, German).
Consultation
The staff of the Center for Digital Teaching and Learning (ZDLL) and the Competence Center for University Teaching (ZLK) are available for free (individual) advice by e-mail, telephone and on site.
- Every Monday in the semester between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m., Simone Adams (ZDLL) and Nora Wolf (UniIT) offer you answers to your questions about Moodle, uniMEET, media didactics, planning and implementation of your courses, different teaching formats (online, blended and hybrid teaching) in a digital consultation hour on uniMEET. You can find the meeting link in the Moodle course Digital Teaching, pre-registration is not necessary.
- Please refer to the ZDLL website to find out which ZDLL staff members can advise you on which other topics.
- In the ZLK, Beatrice Kogler and Lisa Scheer will provide you with answers to your questions about the planning and implementation of courses, your course concepts, giving and receiving feedback, assessment formats and assessing in general, and much more.
Contact us
Center for Digital Teaching and Learning (ZDLL) | +43 316 380 - 1271 Liebiggasse 9/II, 8010 Graz digitales.uni-graz.at |
Competence Center for University Teaching (ZLK) | +43 316 380 - 1225 / 5724 Halbärthgasse 6/I, 8010 Graz lehrkompetenz.uni-graz.at |
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