Peer Teaching Evaluations are required for inclusion in a Teaching Portfolio for reviews, promotion, and tenure decisions for each faculty member. These policies are intended to help new faculty build a useful portfolio, as well as provide feedback on and opportunities to improve teaching effectiveness. New faculty have a semester to pick an individual in the department (a Teaching Mentor), in consultation with the Department Head, who will take charge of peer teaching evaluations for them, either by doing the evaluations his/herself, or by arranging for another individual to do them (or both).
For an Assistant Professor, these evaluations will take place in the year before the third-year review, and before the promotion to Associate Professor. Other promotion and review cases (e.g., from Associate to Full Professor) will also be supported by peer teaching evaluations done in the year before the review. It is the responsibility of the faculty up for promotion as well as the teaching mentor to ensure that these evaluations are done on time and in a conscientious way that provides adequate demonstration of teaching effectiveness for review and tenure decisions.
Please reach out to Marlise Bourland (marlisef@arizona.edu) if you have any questions.
Peer Evaluation Resources: For peer evaluations that are done for promotion review, faculty can use any form of peer evaluation that is relevant to the teaching context, including either the resources on the UCATT site or the promotion-specific forms at the Faculty Affairs site.