Teaching Circles
Teaching teams and circles as a mechansim for peer review and professional development
Teachers may team-teach, so certainly they can team-review, working in coordination to improve each other's teaching through reciprocal visits, critiques, etc. Larger collaborations--or teaching circles--are also possible.
Team members may simply want to help each other in an extended process of self-analysis, perhaps using one of several self-evaluation guidebooks.
Bibliography
Pat Hutchings. 1996. Making Teaching Community Property. Washington, D.C.: AAHE. --- see Chaps. 1-2, 6.
Carol Lynn Davis and Ellen Honan. 1998. "Reflections on the Use of Teams to Support the Portfolio Process." Pp. 90-102 in Nona Lyons (ed.), With Portfolio in Hand: Validating the New Teacher Profesionalism (New York: Teachers College Press).
Kathleen Brinko. 1997. "The Interactions of Teaching Improvement." In K.T. Brinko and R.J. Menges (eds.), Practically Speaking: A Sourcebook for Instructional Consultants in Higher Education, Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press