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There are different ways to use peer feedback in your class for students to share and reflect on each other's work. Teaching your students to give feedback to each other could seem like climbing a mountain, but it can be rewarding when you get them to understand how to give and receive constructive feedback. This process might help your students build the habit to reflect on their own work at the same time they learn to collaborate with their classmates.

If your students are working in groups and they are doing a big project, it is a good idea to ask them to evaluate each other after completing the project so you know about the teams’ dynamics. For the groups that are not effective, it is helpful to have a checkpoint when they are half way and they still have time to improve. 

However, this is not the only time when your students can give feedback to each other. Bruce Maxim explains in this blog post the difference between peer review, peer evaluation, and peer teaching as well as presenting examples of evaluation forms students can use to give feedback to their peers. You can customize these forms to fit your project or your assignment.

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The Hub is excited to be organizing a GenAI Faculty Panel at the Retention and Graduation Summit today Friday, Feb. 21st at 2:10 - 2:45pm.

These are our panelists:

- Amy Brainer 
- Sofia Calzada-Orihuela
- Kyongson Park 

The panel will consist of faculty reflecting on how GenAI has impacted teaching and learning here at University of Michigan - Dearborn. The panel will be followed by a Q&A period to answer your questions. You can find out more about the summit on their website. 

Because of the high demand for our cohort based 7-week program, we are happy to share this self-enrolling link for the self-paced version. We built the weekly modules based on the 7-week program but you can feel free to set your own pace as you see fit. 

The Hub will be hosting in-person and virtual coffee hours to bring this community element into the program. The coffee hours are aligned to the different weekly modules but please feel free to come no matter where you are at in the program.

These gatherings are an opportunity to ask questions, discuss tasks from the self-paced Canvas course, and connect with colleagues. You are of course welcome to self-enroll and complete the course without attending the Coffee Hours. Or feel free to make an appointment with an instructional designer at a time that is convenient for you to talk over any parts of the course. 

The Provost’s Office and the Hub for Teaching and Learning are excited to invite you to attend an upcoming working session on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:

“Dip Your Toes” in SoTL.

March 12 at 2-3PM 

All are welcome, but we especially encourage those who are new to this type of work and considering their first dip in the pool. 

RSVP by March 7 using this Registration link.

We are happy to meet with you for any teaching concerns, large or small, in any modality, whether it's a one-off meeting or longer-term planning. For issues arising in your classes, PBL, GenAI, or anything else, we're here to help!

Questions or comments about this Hub Cap? Reach out to Belen Garcia beleng@umich.edu

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