Lesson Observation (Teachers' Pocketbooks): Lesson Observation Pocketbook

by Phil Hailstone (Illustrator), Roy Watson-Davis (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2009

  $3.75

  This extensively illustrated Pocketbook takes a practical approach to classroom observation for professional development purposes. It begins by establishing the reasons for lesson observations, outlining the benefits, and defining protocols. There is a chapter, with clear do's and dont's, on how to become an effective observer. This is followed by a look at different models of observation, starting with the observer as learner, also known as 'the worker bee model'. Then, via paired, peer and trio observations, there is a section on being observed as professional development. Here the observer takes the role of coach. The final model is the performance management/Ofsted model, with the observer as assessor or judge. A section on how to give supportive verbal and written feedback leads to a closing chapter on personalising classroom observation for individual departments or schools, touching briefly on pupil observation. Roy Watson-Davis, author of this title and of the Creative Teaching and Form Tutor's Pocketbooks , is an Advanced Skills Teacher with hundreds of observations and feedback sessions to his name. He trains teachers on effective observation and is experienced in developing whole school protocols and policy.