Date of Award
Summer 2022
Document Type
Open Access Dissertation
Department
Educational Studies
First Advisor
Leigh D’Amico
Abstract
In American schools, teachers seldomly have time to see each other teach resulting in missed opportunities to learn and grow from one another. Participants engaged in peer observation and feedback in order to determine the effectiveness of this professional development structure on practitioner growth, teacher efficacy, and overall teacher satisfaction. Data was collected from multiple sources that indicated several themes of growth resulting from the peer observation and feedback cycles including an increase in flexibility and willingness to have others in classrooms, new practitioner thinking and application to classroom practice, and the expansion of influence on highly effective teachers on colleagues in other grade levels. The conclusion of the study indicates that continued professional development that includes peer observation and feedback will expand these results and grow practitioners throughout the school setting.
Rights
© 2022, Malisa Dawn Johnson
Recommended Citation
Johnson, M. D.(2022). Peer Observation and Feedback as a Professional Development Structure. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/6947