"Insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results."

Albert Einstein

Henry Ford

Steven Horsley

 For years, I had a nagging feeling that the feedback we've been providing has ticked a box in our monitoring and evaluation processes, but hasn't always resulted in sustained improvements.   

If you've had that same nagging doubt, then make the change. Introduce Lesson Visits to your professional development approach. You won't look back.

Lesson Visits - the essential replacement for Lesson Observations

What is in a name?

Everything. A lesson visit puts the ownership for decision making with the right person - the class teacher. They host the visit. Their colleague is a privileged guest. The guest has a very important role to play, facilitating conversation about the children's learning, and enabling the class teacher to identify small incremental changes. Each small adaptation creates positive impact for the children's learning and progress. And, over time there is distinct and noticeable improvement in the quality of learning and teaching.

I will provide the training for identified leaders, including modelling the full three part Lesson Visit process. Many leaders also ask me to sit in on their first Lesson Visits, and to provide support and advice afterwards.

You then build the Lesson Visit model into your professional development processes, and we follow up after two terms to check in with progress and identify any solutions necessary.

I work with your teachers, carrying out the full three part Lesson Visit process. I keep notes of the initial conversation and follow up conversation on behalf of the host teacher. These notes form part of their professional development portfolio.

We complete this process remotely, with teachers booking their conversations, filming the lesson section and uploading to their own secure folder.