Teaching Excellence Program
Faculty-to-Faculty Peer Mentoring
What is TEP peer mentoring?
Peer mentoring is…
- Provided by experienced Lewis & Clark faculty who have participated in the TEP peer observation trainings
- Completely voluntary
- Confidential
- Focused on providing support, not assessment
- Constructive and collaborative, not evaluative
- Available for any member of the CAS faculty (tenured, term, tenure-track, visiting, adjunct)
Peer mentoring includes…
- Focused assistance in identifying and addressing challenges in a particular class
- An initial classroom observation at any time of the semester
- Follow-up classroom observations, if desired
- Assistance with post-observation goal setting
- Support in developing and utilizing effective pedagogical techniques
- Collaborative and in-depth consultations focused on one or more courses
- Feedback on syllabus planning and course design
- Facilitation of a mid-semester, consensus-based, student feedback process to provide concrete suggestions for your course, if desired
- Ongoing mentoring and collaborative goal setting (beyond the single semester of classroom observation)
- Assistance with interpreting end-of-semester student evaluations
- Support for departments or programs who wish to evaluate and improve upon shared student experiences in the major or minor