Effective Papers For learning

Lesson observations can be a profoundly positive or negative experience; I've seen teachers rejuvenated, inspired, depressed and infuriated by the process, alongside others who just tolerate the whole thing as a wearisome but probably unavoidable chore, like a routine visit to the dentist or getting a haircut (although I was astonished to learn from a colleague recently that some people actively look forward to visiting the hairdressers. I kid you not. My own view is that only one criterion applies when selecting a 'coiffeur': how quickly can they do it? My guy is FAST - admittedly he can be a bit choppy-scrapey at times, and there's often some blood, but when the time expended on the whole sorry exercise is more or less the same as filling the car up with petrol, who's complaining?).  Anyway. It's important of course that we put sufficient thought and reflection into making lesson obs as good as it can be - I've written in a previous post about how we are ...