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What are teaching triangles?
They're an opportunity for a group of three faculty to come together to think about their teaching practices by observing each other. This is not a peer evaluation. It's about building our own teaching practices by observing what others do in their classes.
How does a teaching triangle work?
The concept is easy. Each member of the triangle commits to visiting each of the other members’ classes at least once during the semester. The semester begins with a logistical meeting to figure out when the visits will occur. After each visit, the members take time to reflect on what they observed. Some triangles may also do a quick debrief after the observations. After all of the visits have occurred the group reconvenes to discuss what they learned through the observations and how the ideas will influence their teaching moving forward.
Carol Berenson of the University of Calgary has put together a guide with information about each step in the process. The model in the guide includes four faculty members and is therefore a Teaching Square. We'll have only three members in our groups to create a Teaching Triangle.
Berenson, C. (2017, June). Teaching squares: Observe and reflect on teaching and learning. University of Calgary, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning. https://taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca/sites/default/files/Teaching%20
Squares%20Guide%20Final%20v2.pdf
Are you interested in joining a Teaching Triangle? Let us know.
The University of Calgary uses teaching squares, rather than teaching triangles, but the process is similar:
