11/07/2022
By Julie Nash

The Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching (CELT) is inviting all faculty at UMass Lowell to submit applications for the 2022-2023 Peer Coaching Teaching and Learning Community led by Professor Michelle Scribner. This learning community is designed to allow and help instructors develop observation and coaching skills and use feedback from others to enhance instructional practice by considering student learning first. The cohort will consist exclusively of faculty members (from any rank and discipline). Members of staff and administration will support the community logistically, but will not otherwise participate, to ensure that participants feel comfortable sharing their challenges and observations confidentially among peers.

Peer Coaching Community Learning Outcomes:

  • Set personal instructional goals
  • Set learning goals for students and develop lesson plans/assessments that are clearly aligned to goals
  • Learn and develop a strategy for instructional coaching
  • Learn how to use instructional feedback to enhance teaching and improve student learning.
  • Create an asset map of participants to share with university colleagues who are seeking to improve practice.
  • Develop a short instructional tip videos to be shared with CELT community.

Applications:

Participants in this CELT’s Peer Coaching Teaching and Learning Community will be expected to:

  • Participate in a faculty development workshop (early spring 2023) to kick off the experience
  • Meet as a cohort 2-4 times during spring 2022 and fall 2023 academic year for support and feedback.
  • Create a 3-5 minute video or short blog post about effective instructional practice to share on CELT website (Fall 2023)
  • Be available for additional informal collegial coaching, which might include visiting classes, sharing assignments, or talking about their experience at a future workshop.
  • Participate in the Fall 2023 Faculty Symposium about the experience

Faculty members are encouraged to apply individually or in pairs if you would like to participate in this experience with a fellow colleague!

To apply, please fill out the 2022-2023 Peer Coaching Teaching and Learning Community form  by December 12. Selected participants will be notified in December 2022 and the first meeting invitations will be sent out for early Spring 2023.

For more information, please email: CELT@uml.edu.