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Date: 20 January 2006 00:10:19
making judgements about a colleagues teaching. I had to observe a lesson today. I was warned they are a difficult group and they were pretty horrible. I was there more for constructive advice rather than just a judgement actually. I hope I will be able to help, there are things I would do differently but I don't know whether that means it will work for someone else. Some things were very obvious and I have passed those on, others are down to personality and style.
I was in a similar position a few years ago, but then I really felt the teacher shouldn't be one. I hated observing the lessons because I just wanted to take over. Personality is such an issue I think, whether it should be or not I don't know.
I know the person I observed is / will be a good teacher, but it's so hard when new to a school. I had a group that I dreaded seeing in my first year there and someone seeing that lesson on it's own would have probably decided I shouldn't be a teacher. In fact in my first job I was given some dreadful feedbacks on observations. I was only just scraping through at times, the truth is, even the strongest teachers struggled there. I couldn't go back to that but it made me into a better teacher - weird how when I left that school my feedback was suddenly good!