Last Updated on 22/08/2023
Overview
The quality and appropriateness of teaching is monitored in several ways. When planning the teaching programme, strand teams and teachers agree a plan for each teaching session which takes account of the content and methods to be used, and indicates which learning outcomes each of these aim to focus on addressing.
Peer Observation
The programme uses a system of peer and stakeholder observation of teaching.
There are minimum requirements for permanent staff members to be peer-observed regularly, and staff are encouraged to discuss feedback they have received during their annual appraisal. A sample of teaching delivered by external teachers is also peer observed each year. Feedback from the peer review process is collated and disseminated by the curriculum tutor for the programme.
More information is available in the Peer observation guidelines.
Trainee feedback
Following teaching sessions, feedback is obtained in several ways, and is reviewed and acted upon by strand co-ordinators. Please note that the processes for trainee feedback are currently under review and that new processes will be put in place during the Michaelmas 2023 term.