I have always valued the peer observation programme we have in place at my school. Typically two teachers will joint-plan a lesson, one will then teach it and the other will observe, giving feedback shortly afterwards.
The observer will then teach the lesson themselves, taking into account the suggestions for improvement that they made. It has never ceased to amaze me how two teachers with different styles can take ostensibly the same lesson plan and resources and teach two very different lessons.
Eighteen months ago I started working on Imvoto, an app that uses students’ mobile phones in the classroom, offering them real-time assessment feedback. When I started the development, I was cognisant of my peer-observation experience – that my teaching style and use of resources is very different from that of my colleagues.
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