Week #3: Teachers Observing Teachers: A Professional Development Tool for Every School

“Typically evaluative by nature, teacher observation is usually linked to classroom performance. More and more schools, however, are using observation -- teachers observing teachers -- as a form of professional development that improves teaching practices and student performance”. (Article by Michele Israel)

                            

                                   

                    

My Opinion

I think observing a teacher giving a class is the best guide that we as student teachers can have, because it can help us to improve our skills and to get new ideas, can reduce the job stress, especially for new teachers, we can learn a lot of things that cannot be found in a book, for example, about how to manage a difficult situation like behavior problems, how to react in that moment. Also, the teacher we are observing can give us good tips about the classroom management, about how to improve the classroom practices, about the daily experiences he/she faces with their pupils, and can give us some techniques to apply in our own class. So, for me the effective way to learn how to manage a class is by teachers-observing-teachers strategy.