Observing lessons has always been a staple part of any senior leadership role. However, like most aspects of education, the culture of lesson observations has changed significantly in recent years, and ever since Ofsted gave us the green light to stop making judgements on individual lessons, many school leaders have embraced a more developmental approach to observing classroom practice.
I actually haven’t graded lesson observations for the past two academic years, but stumbled across this way of working more by chance than by good judgement. It was not a strategic decision, rather the idea came to me as I was about to provide some feedback to an NQT at the start of term.
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