Leadership
Improve the Quality of Teaching & Learning through Lesson Observation – 2 – Making it Work
Set up lesson observations your staff understand and trust, using peer observation, book scrutiny and conversations that show learning over time.
- 31 minutes
- 6 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Decide who observes, when, how often and whether teachers get notice
- Agree an observation focus with the teacher before the lesson
- Run peer observation using structured models such as peer triads
- Combine observation with book scrutiny and pupil conversations to judge impact
- Decide when an observation form helps and when a blank page is better
About this course
Do you tell teachers when you're coming in? Who does the observing, and what does it say if it's always a manager? And once you've seen a lesson, how will you know your feedback made any difference?
Here you'll answer those questions and build an observation system that fits your school. You'll agree the focus with the teacher before you go in, and try four structured models of peer observation, including peer triads close to the Japanese lesson study approach. You'll also decide whether a form and criteria help or get in the way.
Learning is hard to see in a single lesson. So you'll also bring in book scrutiny and conversations with pupils and teachers, to judge intent, implementation and impact over time.
- For governors, middle leaders and senior leaders. All phases. England only.
6 modules
Open in order
- 2 min
Introduction
- 4 min
The practicalities of lesson observations
- 5 min
Working with the observee
- 5 min
Peer observations
- 9 min
Intent, Implementation and impact
- 8 min
Observation forms and criteria