External Peer Review of Teaching – Making Teaching Matter

Applicant Toolbox

Guidelines, instructions, and templates for preparing your promotion packet

Request Review

Instructions on how to request a review of a candidate’s promotion packet

Reviewer Toolbox

Guidelines, worksheets, and templates for reviewing a promotion packet (revised from the AAMC Toolbox for Evaluating Educators)

GOAL: The goal of this initiative is to address two major obstacles to recognizing and rewarding teaching in our colleges:

The lack of defined and ready-to-use tools to assess teaching, teaching-related professional activities, and the scholarship of teaching.
The lack of a respected and rigorous external review process.

The RTA’s Educator’s Promotion Packet guidelines and format are intended (a) to provide an evidence-based dossier template for faculty with significant teaching and/or educational leadership responsibilities, so that (b) promotion packets might be more fairly and rigorously reviewed – including, ideally, by qualified external reviewers. The format represents an evidence-based approach and has been modified from the AAMC Toolbox for Medical Educators.

There are three stages to the process:

Applicant Toolbox

Applicants prepare an Educator’s Promotion Packet / Professional Dossier

Request Review

2. The applicant’s dean, department chair, or P&T committee chair (whomever normally solicits external review letters – i.e., the “submitting authority”) submits a request for review, then submits the applicant’s promotion packet once the request is acknowledged.

Reviewer Toolbox

3. A committee of external reviewers reviews the promotion packet

The background, rationale, structure, and evidence-base of the external peer review of the teaching process are explained in more detail in this peer-reviewed journal article.

External Peer Review of Teaching Fellows

86 & 233 & EPRT	Local Representative	Kevin Keel	University of California-Davis
170 & 246 & EPRT	Local Representative	Joie Watson	University of California-Davis
166 & 245 & EPRT	Local Representative	Mara Varvil	Washington State University
161 & 244 & EPRT	Local Representative	Susan Tornquist	Oregon State University
156 & 243 & EPRT	Local Representative	Alexis Sweat	Utah State University
154 & 242 & EPRT	Local Representative	Leslie Stone-Roy	Colorado State University
135 & 241 & EPRT	Local Representative	Pooja Potdar	Utah State University
117 & 240 & EPRT	Local Representative	John Michael	Colorado State University
114 & 239 & EPRT	Local Representative	Carolina Mehaffy	Colorado State University
108 & 238 & EPRT	Local Representative	Susan Matthew	Washington State University
107 & 237 & EPRT	Local Representative	Cherein Massih	Western University
103 & 236 & EPRT	Local Representative	Thomas Marino	Western University
102 & 235 & EPRT	Local Representative	Christianne Magee	Colorado State University
95 & 234 & EPRT	Local Representative	Steve Lampa	Washington State University
1 & 219 & EPRT	Local Representative	Jeffrey Abbott	Washington State University
83 & 232 & EPRT	Local Representative	Mathew Johnston	Colorado State University
81 & 231 & EPRT	Local Representative	Daniel Johnson	University of Arizona
75 & 230 & EPRT	Local Representative	Sabrina Hoehne	University of California-Davis
73 & 229 & EPRT	Local Representative	Dean Hendrickson	Colorado State University
69 & 228 & EPRT	Local Representative	Rachel Halsey	Washington State University
62 & 227 & EPRT	Local Representative	Sarah Guess	Washington State University
46 & 226 & EPRT	Local Representative	Maria Fahie	Western University
43 & 225 & EPRT	Local Representative	Sarah Eaton	University of Arizona
32 & 224 & EPRT	Local Representative	Munashe Chigerwe	University of California-Davis
23 & 223 & EPRT	Local Representative	Jessica Bunch	Washington State University
12 & 222 & EPRT	Local Representative	Jessica Bell	Washington State University
10 & 221 & EPRT	Local Representative	Peggy Barr	Western University
5 & 220 & EPRT	Local Representative	Fernando Amitrano	University of Arizona