Department of Instruction and Teacher Education

PROCEDURES for PEER REVIEW OF TEACHING


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The ITE Tenure & Promotion criteria document includes a description of the Teaching Function (one of three primary faculty functions) and the sources of evidence for meeting the criteria.  Two of several indicators of teaching quality are the responses from the formal College of Education Student Course/Instructor Evaluations and the reports from the Departmental Peer Review of Teaching.  All full-time ITE faculty members shall participate in both the College's Course Evaluation process and the Department's Peer Review of Teaching.  Within the ITE annual review process (conducted by peers who review teaching, scholarship, and service), teaching is evaluated based on a consideration of student evaluations, peer review of teaching, and other documentation presented by the faculty member. 


The Department requires a peer review of teaching during specified time frames.    Tenured faculty shall be reviewed at least once prior to each Post-Tenure Review.  Clinical and non-tenured teaching faculty shall be reviewed annually.  Peer review includes observation of teaching and the review of appropriate course documents (e.g., syllabus, handouts, assignment descriptions, scoring guides, tests, student products, etc.).  The peer review may also include interviews or other feedback from students.


  1. In January of each year, each faculty member participating in peer review will submit the course title(s) and semester scheduled to be the focus of the peer review during that calendar year as well as the names of three tenure-track faculty members who might be selected to conduct the review.  This information will be submitted to the Department Chair with the Annual Review materials on a form that will accompany the Annual Review forms given by the Department Chair's Office. (Tenured faculty members are responsible for ensuring that at least one peer review takes place  prior to Post-Tenure Review to comply with USC Post-Tenure Review policy set forth in the Faculty Manual.)
  2. The Department Chair will write a letter of confirmation to the faculty member being reviewed naming the course to be reviewed and appointing a peer reviewer from the list of three submitted by the faculty member, whose responsibility includes classroom teaching observation and review of related course materials. 

  3. Faculty members being reviewed have the responsibility of contacting the peer reviewer early in the semester to establish a date for the observation, providing a set of appropriate course materials, and providing review guidelines and instrumentation.   The peer reviewer will follow and use approved departmental guidelines and instrumentation for conducting the teaching and course materials review.

  4. Within two weeks of the observation, the peer reviewer will confer with the faculty member to discuss the evaluation, and will subsequently provide an electronic version of the review on the accompanying peer teaching and course materials review guide to both the faculty member and the Department Chair.

  5. A faculty member may request a second peer review, with the same or different reviewer, at any time during the year.

  6. Faculty in their first year of full-time teaching in higher education will be assigned a first-semester mentor who will conduct the first semester review.

Current Schedule for Peer Review

Updated 6 October 2008

Faculty Name

Reviewer

Semester

Angela Baum

Amy Donnelly

Fall 2008

Gloria Boutte

TBA

by 2013

Megan Burton

Irma Van Scoy

Spring 2009

Nate Carnes

TBA

by 2015

Paul Chaplin

Heidi Mills

Fall 2008

Diane DeFord

TBA

by 2010

Ed Dickey

TBA

by 2012

Amy Donnelly

TBA

by 2009

Mary Earick

Susi Long

Fall 2008

Christine Ebert

TBA

by 2012

Nancy Freeman

TBA

by 2012

Margo Jackson

TBA

Fall 2008

Tambra Jackson

Nathan Carnes

Fall 2008

Ulanda James

Amy Johnson

Fall 2008

Rhonda Jeffries

Ed Dickey

by 2011

Pamela Jewett

Megan Burton

Spring 2009

Amy Johnson

Vic Oglan

2008-2009

Lee Johnson

Ulanda James

Fall 2008

Herman Knopf

Kevin Swick

Fall 2008

Tasha Laman

Lucy Spence

Fall 2008

Susi Long

TBA

by 2014

Julia Lopez-Robertson

Diane DeFord

Fall 2008

Christine Lotter

Mary Earick

Fall 2008

Erin Miller

Julia Lopez-Robertson

Fall 2008

Heidi Mills

TBA

by 2009

Victoria Oglan

Kim Smoak

2008-2009

Beth Powers-Costello

Mac Brown

Summer 2009

Sandra Schmidt

Mary Styslinger

Fall 2008

Susan Schramm-Pate

TBA

by 2011

Kimberly Smoak

Ken Vogler

2008-2009

Lucy Spence

Amy Donnelly

Spring 2009

Diane Stephens

TBA

by 2013

Mary Styslinger

TBA

by 2012

Kevin Swick

TBA

by 2011

Stephen Thompson

TBA

by 2014

Irma Van Scoy

on leave from teaching

indefinite

Jeanene Varner

Nancy Freeman

Fall 2008

David Virtue

Mary Styslinger

Fall 2008

Kenneth Vogler

Paul Chaplin

Fall 2009

Jennifer Wilson

Nate Carnes

Fall 2008

Jan Yow

David Virtue

Fall 2008