Joy Hamm has taught 11 years in a variety of English-language settings, ranging from kindergarten to adult learners: One idea for making teacher observations a learning opportunity rather than a ...

Just before Christmas, I had a lesson observation by an external consultant. My lesson was graded outstanding and, as a teacher fresh out of induction, I was pretty proud of myself. During my newly ...

If you've been swamped under your lesson plans, exams and marking for too long, you might have missed the current insurgency taking place around lesson observations. Back in March, the thinktank ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How can administrators (and even other teachers) best do observations of a lesson? I think it’s safe to say that most teachers, including us veterans, get nervous when ...