Observations

[thoseendlessdays]

What would you think was preferable ? formal termly observations replaced by informal observation weekly with written feedback on how to improve ?

I’d query whether formal observations by a single observer is really more or less stressful than
a) being filmed
b) having that film picked over by more than one critic.

Time to contact the union...

What's helped my well-being is not having any observations. I've not been observed in nearly two years.
My classes still make progress. The grammar schools they've moved on to seem pleased with the skills and knowledge they are arriving with.
I am tempted to go and observe some colleagues as part of my HoD role (and mostly to support them with rather tricky classes, since both are unqualified teachers) but it's just not the done thing at our school.

Happy to let colleagues observe and to learn from other colleagues .Equally at ease being observed formally or informally; I don't necessarily think feedback from non teaching SLT is most effective for CPD but if feel they must then so be it. I am very unhappy about slt taking random films without notice to discuss in staff meetings with no prior permission.

Surely filming you without your permission is a breach of GDPR?
Have the children/their parents consented to random filming?