The POETry of Collaboration: Collaborative Training, Evaluation and Progress Through the POET Program
Jody Ondich
Lake Superior College
Keywords: POET, evaluation, peer, review, peer review
Abstract
Lake Superior College faculty, staff, and administration have collaborated to create the Program for Online Excellence in Teaching (POET), which includes teacher and staff training, administrative evaluation, and peer review. The program extends beyond course design to include teaching and learning components. The college has invested in this comprehensive quality online initiative for three reasons, calling them the 3 Ps--peer support, pedagogy and professionalism. Participants will be provided access to all LSC's POET materials to use or adapt. This process can work for teaching for all ages, as the materials look at engagement, training, best practices and continuing progress. Participants will be provided access to all of LSC’s POET materials to use or adapt for their own use.
Outcomes:
- Participants will have access to all rubrics used for evaluation and review of courses
- Participants will be able to clearly articulate differences between design and pedagogy emphases
- Participants will see examples of training at different levels for staff and instructors.
Related Website: www.lsc.edu/poet
Author Biography
Jody Ondich, Lake Superior College
Jody Ondich is an instructor in Humanities and Philosophy, and has been teaching online for LSC since 2002. She is the POET Peer Review Coordinator. Together with the Dean of Fine Arts and Sciences and the POET Training Coordinator she works at presenting the POET materials at conferences, at workshops on campus, as well as developing new resource materials, and assisting faculty to create and improve exciting online courses and supplementary online resources for on ground classrooms.
