Leadership
Improve the Quality of Teaching & Learning through Lesson Observation – 4 – Good Pedagogy
Talk with teachers about why they teach the way they do, even in a subject you don't know, and help them reflect for themselves.
- 25 minutes
- 5 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Identify the pedagogy behind the choices you see in a lesson
- Observe lessons outside your own subject with sharper questions
- Talk with teachers about why they taught a lesson the way they did
- Use Brookfield's lenses to help teachers look at their own teaching
- Encourage extended professionality in the teachers you observe
About this course
Sitting in on a languages lesson when your own subject is maths, it's hard to tell what good looks like. You can see what the teacher does, but not always why.
Pedagogy, the thinking behind the teaching, is the focus here. You'll practise spotting it in our recorded lessons and consider how learning differs between subjects: grammar rules aren't remembered the way a quadratic equation is. Then you'll turn to the teacher, using Hoyle's idea of extended professionality and Brookfield's lenses to help them see their lessons through their own eyes, their colleagues', and the research.
Done this way, observation gives teachers something to keep thinking about long after you've left the room.
- For governors, middle leaders and senior leaders. All phases. England only.
5 modules
Open in order
- 2 min
Introduction
- 10 min
Identifying the pedagogy
- 7 min
Subject specific observations
- 4 min
Becoming a reflective teacher
- 4 min
Wrap up