Being a teacher educator

Observing teaching

Aims

To examine and develop observation feedback practices

ACTIVITY

What do you look for when observing teaching?What do you want to see?

Working with others at your table (10 mins):• Create criteria you will use to judge a session

you observe

Observe a session

• Using the criteria you have developed, watch a teaching session

• Make notes which can be used to write up your feedback

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Feedback to the teacher

• Using one of the observation feedback sheets, write up your feedback (5mins)

Feedback triads activity

ACTIVITY: Working in groups of 3 (A, B, or C)

A – you are the teacher receiving feedbackB – you are feeding back to the teacherC – you are observing the feedback

5 mins for B to feed back to A5 mins for C to feed back to B

Good practice in observation feedback