People and places
How to get the most out of lesson observations in an international school Louise Simpson shares why she has taken a different approach to lesson observations in her school As is the case in international schools all over the world, our students often move around during the course of their education, changing schools, cities and countries as their parents’ jobs change. In addition to this, a number of students in a class may also be getting to grips with a new language and a new curriculum. In this context, carrying out valid lesson observations can be somewhat complicated. It can be difficult for an observer to judge, for example, whether the teacher is struggling to deliver a great lesson that engages Winter
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children. Or whether it could be the recent intake of students new to learning at such a high level in English that is holding engagement back. It is for these reasons that since I became head at St Paul’s School in Brazil, we have taken a different approach to lesson observations. Technology to support lesson observations For us, the first step in improving the lesson observations process was to develop unique lesson observation
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