CLASSROOM OBSERVATION

CLASSROOM OBSERVATION Revised January 2010 H:\work\policies\staffw\ lr 1 CLASSROOM OBSERVATION Aims CLASSROOM observations are used to support teachers and other CLASSROOM staff and to monitor the quality of teaching and learning at Whitefield. OBSERVATION contributes to the school s self-evaluation, to the School Development Plan and to the professional development of CLASSROOM staff. It enables us to recognise and reinforce good practice, to identify ways of improving teaching and learning and to highlight practice which ought to be shared more widely. In all these ways it contributes directly to the quality of pupils learning and experience in school. Organisation Observations are organised by the Head of each School. Every teacher is observed three times, for a maximum of three hours in total, during the academic year (unless they request or agree to further observations for a specific purpose or are the subject of capability procedures).

The third scheduled observation is ungraded and may be a peer observation, an advisory observation by a line manager or other colleague with particular expertise or an opportunity for a less experienced colleague to develop professionally by observing practice. The nature of the third observation should reflect the teacher’s development needs ...

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