Teachers teach, so it seems natural to assume that watching them teach is the best way to find out how good they are. But while it may be taken for granted, a growing body of evidence suggests that ...

The first image that comes to many people’s minds when they hear the words ‘lesson observation’ is a variation on Jaws, complete with ominous theme music. Even the most experienced teachers show a ...

Employers keeping score stops lesson observations from being a real development opportunity, writes Neil Jones Lesson observation at our college used to be regarded as an annual hurdle to jump. For ...

1 Doctoral Program in Mathematics Education, Faculty of Education, Univesiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia. 2 Faculty of Education, Univesiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia. For these ...

Lesson Study approach has been adopted as the learning module in Zambia, however, not all teachers have implemented stable and effective School Based Continuous Professional Development in a Lesson ...

Aware that lesson observations can induce feelings of mistrust, unease and performativity amongst teachers, one New Zealand school has designed an initiative that’s championing “improving not proving” ...

Sort out your stationery, ignore last-minute ideas that come to you in the middle of the night and rid the room of wasps – a guide to successful lesson observations The final placement season for PGCE ...

Despite written lesson observation feedback being valued by beginning teachers (Hobson, Ashby, Malderez, & Tomlinson, 2009) and perceived as a mechanism to link theory and practice (Puttick, 2019), ...