10 fev 2016

What have YOU been doing to improve? (Part 5) *

*O texto a seguir foi escrito para a revista  Braz-Tesol Newsletterde dezembro/2015.  Nesse blog, ele será publicado em 10 postagens, todas as sextas-feiras.

10 questions that will help you boost your skills – both as a teacher and as an English speaker

5. Have you been observing your peers?

peer-review

Observing our peers can be enlightening. From observation we learn new activities and new ways of addressing problems. We have a chance to check what works well and what does not, and also how students are really feeling and responding.

After participating in a lesson as an observer, we inevitably ask ourselves: “Do I give instructions as clearly as my peer does?”; “How could my peer have improved that certain part of the lesson?”; “Did the students feel comfortable doing that?”; “Why don’t I try to do that next time?”.

Nothing makes you more aware of your own practice than observation. And that leads to our next topic.

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