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Lesson observation and evaluation
Browse the list below to access resources for effective lesson observations and feedback. Ensure classroom observations help develop teachers, drive professional development and create improvements in teaching.
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Learning walks should give targeted ways to improve and provide constructive feedback after observation. Use our feedback template to help
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How do you make lesson observations work in practice? John Blanchard suggests protocols to ensure that when colleagues open their work to view and comment by others, it's done in a useful and considered way
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Peer observation is a powerful way of enabling staff to take ownership of and responsibility for developing their teaching. Use these training materials to embed the practice with staff
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Lesson observations are crucial for monitoring teaching and learning. Download our model policy to use in your school, outlining good practice for classroom observation
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What does useful feedback look like and how should you provide it? Ruchi Sabharwal provides middle leaders with questions to ask their team to aid development and ways to phrase feedback
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Chris Moyse explains how shortening the feedback loop with classroom coaching makes for faster teacher development
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Lesson observations should create meaningful improvements in teaching and learning - not make teachers' lives miserable. Use them to drive CPD
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Developing teachers, spreading good practice and effective quality assurance are still possible with ungraded lesson observations. Paul K. Ainsworth shows how
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It’s still early days but lesson study is currently gripping Hawes Side Primary School. We spoke with Michael Shepherd, its headteacher, to find out more
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Middle leader under time pressure? Evaluate the quality of teaching and learning in one hour a week with this time plan