Teaching Circles are groups of instructors who meet together fairly regularly to discuss teaching. The group can operate as formally or informally as it wishes, and can take a variety of forms. For example, some teaching circles are unstructured, with the topic for discussion being whatever is on people's minds on that day. Others identify a series of topics they wish to discuss, and work their way through the list. The decision as to the way in which the group operates and the frequency of meeting is made by the members.
Members work their way through a book on teaching, or discuss a series of articles on teaching.
Members invite speakers, followed by discussion. Members reflect on and share their personal experience in teaching. Reports from colleagues who went to a conference. Invite students to meet with group and give their views on teaching. We require some sort of dissemination at the end of the cycle.