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How To Make Lesson Observation Meaningful


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Holly Gardner

Holly Gardner is TT Editor, as well as a Freelance Publisher. She has been working with @TeacherToolkit for over 6 years - since she published his first book in her role as Senior Commissioning Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing. Since then, she left her day job,...
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How can you conduct a lesson observation so that it actually improves teaching?

Observing other teachers is one of the privileges of being a middle leader, writes Zoe Paramour, teacher and author of How To Be An Outstanding Primary Middle Leader and writes: What should you look at in a lesson observation? And how often should you be observing teaching?

How often should you observe teachers?

It’s widely accepted that low stakes drop-ins are more useful for everyone than one high-stake observation a term. Drop-ins should not be used to catch members of staff

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