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Peer Support 
We created a program
to fill a local need by developing a Peer Support System. The
purpose
of our program is as follows:
The Peer Support System is committed to providing a supportive arena
for developing a
variety of teaching strategies and for sharing ideas and concerns.
Peer Supporters will
work beside individual faculty
members on their journey to becoming skilled educators
with MATC students. The Peer Support
system is a faculty collaboration that promotes
professional growth
and excellence in teaching.
This is accomplished
through
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the establishment of a Peer Support Network
- a Coordination Day Peer Support Session
- Peer Support Seminars
- teacher-to-teacher collaboration.
In the fall semester
we offer new teachers or any other nontenured teachers Peer Support
Seminar I. We invite them to join us with this description in the
college's Professional Development publication:
Team up with
a supportive partner and experience the professional satisfaction
of working on effective teaching strategies in a confidential and
collaborative relationship. The 120 hours needed for the three-credit
seminar include the following: 36 hours of class; 12 hours of one-on-one
scheduled discussions with a trained Peer Support Team partner;
50 hours of reading, reflection, and writing about teaching practices
in the classroom; and 22 hours of other peer-supported activities,
such as partner-teaching, observing other experienced colleagues,
and conferencing about specific teaching skills/issues in the classroom,
lab, or workshop. This course may also be substituted for Wisconsin
Technical College System Certification Course #52, Teaching Methods,
and may be used for both certification and salary reclassification.
For tenured teachers
we offer a spring seminar called Peer Support II. We provide the following
description in the Professional Development list of courses to invite
our tenured colleagues to join us:
Have you been
wanting to incorporate more of what you learned in a methods or ER&D
class into teaching? Explore, with a supportive colleague from the
Peer Support Team, the latest research on alternative ways to measure
student progress, to increase student participation/involvement, to
improve questioning, and promote critical thinking. Join us in a class
where the focus is on learning more about your specific instructional
issues, expanding your teaching skills, sharing practical ideas, and
trying these ideas out in your classroom. This course may also be
substituted for Wisconsin Technical College System Certification Course
#52, Teaching Methods, and may be used for both certification credit
and salary reclassification.
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