Peer Evaluation
Kaunas
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| 3.1. | Feedback | ||||
| 3.2. | Peer Evaluation | 3.2.1. | Hamburg | ||
| 3.2.2. | Kaunas | a) | Peer Example | ||
| b) | Peer Evaluation Analysis | ||||
| 3.2.3. | Reykjavik | ||||
| 3.2.4. | Rovaniemi | ||||
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| 3.3. | Diary | ||||
| 3.4. | Photo Evaluation | ||||
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Peer-evaluation at
Kaunas
Trade and
Business
School
Objective of peer-evaluation method is to improve teaching and learning.
Peer-evaluation method: colleagues’ lessons visits, observation of teaching, learning from colleagues new teaching methods, relationship with students, exchange of experience, discussions, solving problems together.
Peer-evaluation was started at school between SEFES members from the beginning 2005 year and more teachers were involved from 2005 September to 2006 June.
Steps of peer-evaluation:
- Agreement with other teacher about lesson visit.
- Visit colleague lesson.
- Observation of teaching, learning, students’ behaviour, relationship between teacher and students.
- After observation discussions about lesson, what has been successful, what less successful, how to solve difficulties, exchange of experience between colleagues.
- Try to implement new good experience to own lessons.
- To share about success with colleagues.
SEFES team members did peer-evaluation with big interest but it was not easy to involve more teachers to visit each other lessons. Many teachers were afraid of visitors at their lessons as they could look only what is bad in lessons and notice only mistakes. At our school peer-evaluation process is still going on. Step by step we involve more teachers but there are some teachers who don’t want to do that (mainly older teachers). Teachers avoid to discuss openly about lessons or their problems with bigger number of teachers, they prefer that to do with colleagues which they really trust.
SEFES team teachers for description of lessons visits used form, suggested by colleagues from
Examples of lessons visits forms and pictures from lessons visits
At our school for last few years administration has done visits to teachers’ lessons to observe:
- Visual and technical means usage in lesson.
- Independent students’ job in lessons.
- Effective lesson time usage.
- Students ability to master and perfect studying material.
- School‘s curriculum implementation.
- Active teaching and learning methods.
- Theory‘s knowledge applying in practice and production.
- Work organization and work‘s skills in production.
- Work security and sanitary requirements realization.
At the beginning of every school year it has done plan of lessons visits: who will visit teachers lessons and which aspects at the lessons observer will watch and advise teachers to do their best during lessons. It is a good thing to have useful suggestions but it is nice and important to hear some offers from colleagues also. It is a good share of good experience.
As our experience in peer-evaluation we can suggest how to motivate the teachers to participate in peer-evaluation.
Some these ways have been discussed as well at Syneva Thematic Conference in Tallinn “Synergy between Internal and External Evaluation and Its Impacts on Learning and Teaching”.
Conclusions
How to motivate the teachers to participate in peer-evaluation:
- explain the concept and the aims of self-evaluation in a very clear way,
- to motivate a teacher always start with something positive, something where the teacher is good at,
- arrange that teachers talk about their lessons, their problems openly,
- give them the feeling of trust, they should not feel controlled,
- develop the readiness to “open their classroom door”,
- mutual observation of lessons,
- remind of the process of lifelong learning (not only the world and the pupils change – the teachers have to do this too),
- write a portfolio as evidence for the progress,
- exchange the experience of older teachers and the new teaching methods and ideas of younger colleagues,
- awake their interest for learning out of mistakes, making mistakes is not a disaster it is a sign for doing things better.
