Professional Development

Equipping pre-service teachers’, mentors and all teachers with classroom observation tools that focus on specific lesson elements, coupled with non-judgmental post lesson questions can guide better classroom observations. Quite simply, using the T3 can amplify the effects of classroom observations to improve teaching.

For Mentors
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Structured classroom observations and post-lesson discussions are important ways to foster pre-service teachers’ development.
Using a range of teaching tracker tools to observe followed by non-judgemental post lesson conversations can amplify growth.
Arranging observations by more than one observer can provide pre-service teachers with several perspectives.

For Pre-Service Teachers

Your mentor can use Teaching Tracker Tools (T3) when observing you teach so together you can discuss the evidence noted in the T3 to improve your teaching.
You can also improve your focus on teaching and learning by using teaching tracker tools when you observe a lesson. Schools also support teacher growth by using use T3 for peer observations.

Further Reading
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Observing lessons to gather evidence of teaching and learning and discussing them afterwards contributes to teacher development at all stages and can lead to gains in student and teacher performance.
Here you will find relevant publications, including research publications about this project.