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A Peer-Educator Dialogue Guide is now available for MSU Educators who want to collaborate in bettering their educator practice through observation and dialogue with other educators (https://iteach.msu.edu/iteachmsu/groups/iteachmsu/stories/2393?param=post). If you'd like to print a copy of the Guide to complete, you can download a copy by clicking the attachment (.docx, 6.32MB) below.

Note: this resource was adapted 1/2006 from Chism, N.V.N. (1999) Chapter 6: Classroom Observation, Peer Review of Teaching: A Sourcebook. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing, by Angela R. Linse, Executive Director, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, Penn State.

The more educators can treat students as professional learners by providing them with reliable, timely, and accurate information about their progress in a course, the more likely it is that students will persist, thrive, and ultimately succeed in their educational journey.

The typical learning experience in American high schools is an in-person experience that is infused with online tools. Students are regularly required to engage with learning content in online platforms, and they have constant access to their grades, class announcements, and course materials via online and mobile platforms. Given that this is the most common learning experience students have prior to beginning at MSU, it follows that establishing a digital learning environment that mirrors the students’ known processes will create a more seamless transition into the MSU learning ecosystem.

An effective way to support student learning is for educators to use the learning management system as a student-centered academic hub for their course. At MSU, that means using D2L in specific, targeted ways that are intentionally geared toward meeting most students’ needs. In addition to optimizing the students’ experience, this intentional deployment of the learning management system serves to streamline much of the administrative load that is inherent in teaching, thereby simplifying many of the time-consuming tasks that often dominate educator’s lives. Accomplishing this need not require a comprehensive deployment of D2L in your course. In fact, using the LMS in four or five critical ways, and perhaps modifying your practices slightly to facilitate that use, can make a significant difference in students’ perceptions of your course.
1) Use the Grade Book
2) Post a syllabus and a clear schedule
3) Use the announcements tool
4) Distribute materials via D2L
5) (optionally) Use the digital drop box

Click the PDF below for more context on how these five simple steps can maximize the students' experience in your class, and streamline your teaching workflow at the same time.

So why do educators work with the Hub? Here’s what we’ve heard…
Educators collaborate with the Hub to design learning experiences. We help you understand learners, map the experience, prototype and test the experience, and create a plan for success and sustainability.

Educator units come to us to help create the conditions for growth and change you’d like to see in your program. We provide a variety of facilitated sessions to help with team alignment, strategic planning, change management, and learning and development for long-term transformation.

Educators come to us to help facilitate design sprints. Design sprints provide key insights for solving complex challenges and a powerful team-building opportunity. We can facilitate sprints focused on your strategy, process, research, and culture.

If you’ve collaborated with the Hub on a project, tell us more about your experience in the comments below!

College Student Educators International (ACPA) offers unique professional development events to student affairs and higher education professionals at any level. Registration is open for 2024 events and early 2025 events and we encourage you to consider the events linked below or the 2025 ACPA Annual Convention! More information here: https://myacpa.org/events/

For educators who are interested in photographing their class or learning experience for future educational purposes, please remember to get explicit permission from learners. They should be free to opt-in or out at any time without penalty. For ease, here is a general education photo release (note, this release DOES NOT cover promotional or advertising uses).

It is important to note that the peer-educator dialogue should be an iterative process of lifelong learning and practice improvement. These are tools aimed at helping educators learn with and from one another. How an instructor-educator utilizes or shares the feedback provided in through this dialogue process is completely up to them.

Click the attachment below to download a copy of the Peer-Educator Dialogue Protocol (.docx, 41KB).

Check out my highlights on what I learned from Gary Roloff from Fisheries & Wildlife:

𝟏 critical thinking, synthesis of ideas & information, acquisition of contextual knowledge, and informed judgment results in empowered, confident decision making in students

✌🏽 teaching philosophies change over time. focusing on contextual knowledge teaches “clear answers” which is not the same as making informed arguments and decisions using that knowledge

💡connecting students to local and agency partners is a highlight for students & builds professional networks

🌪challenges: "if we fail to recognize and adjust our content and delivery to appeal to diverse learning styles we are not being fair"

🔥hot take: changing from testing structures📝 to oral exams🎤 provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate knowledge and explain answers. More time consuming, but the payoff is worth it

#iteachmsu #educatorstories #thankaneducator
Check out the full article: https://iteach.msu.edu/iteachmsu/groups/doing-the-work-featured-educators/stories/1471

There are important engagements between peer-educator and instructor-educator before and after the actual learning session observation. Check out the attachment (.docx, 86KB) to review this process and the considerations of each "step".