Librarians as critical friends

摘要

By establishing a peer observation program, we satisfied the goal of finding a sustainable way to incorporate reflection and feedback into our instruction program. The critical friends model served as an approachable framework for pre- and post-observation meetings, with trust and open-mindedness grounding these interactions. Three librarians served as initial participants, though expanding the observation program to a larger group served as a way to see more instruction styles and receive feedback from a variety of colleagues. We see applicability of this model to our library's value of leading-edge practices in teaching and learning, as well as the model's flexibility to be applicable in a variety of institutional settings and instruction programs.