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56 A Tutor’s Guide to Teaching and Learning at UQSo, for example, after your first tutorial session for the semester you mightreplay the session (or parts of it) from memory, observing and recalling yourbehaviours (and perhaps the behaviours of students), feelings, exactly what tookplace and what your reactions were, attending to detail, but avoiding judgment(you can observe and note that there was judgment in the original, but avoidmaking judgments during the recall).Peer evaluation♦♦♦Classroom performance – ask another tutor (usually someone who is anexperienced teacher) to sit in on your class and give you feedback. Be specific aboutthe aspects of your practice that you want to be observed and commented on – thismakes it easier for the observer to give useful feedback to you. Alternatively,organize to have your class video-taped, and you can ask a colleague to observe thevideo of your performance and discuss their observations with you later.Teaching and learning materials – similarly, if you have developed some materialsfor use by your students, you can ask a colleague to comment on these materials inrelation to certain aspects as requested by you (for example, whether they are theyinteresting, well constructed, clear, etc).The following resources provide more information about getting feedback frompeers;o http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/downloads/evaluations/Guidebook_PeerReview.pdf(University of Queensland)o http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/firstwords/fw43.html(Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom)