Mutual attendance of lessons is an important career stage for a teacher, when he can learn important knowledge from his colleague or show something himself, or share experience with young teachers. If such events are carried out, the level of methodological training of the teacher himself will increase. Teachers can also attend each other's lessons by mutual invitation.
What determines the quality and productivity of a lesson?
There are two factors that directly affect the productivity and quality of teacher education. The teacher must have the following skills:
- Be aware of the subjectivity of the novelty of the lesson attended.
- Be able to see and master new things, as well as incorporate them into your activities and apply these skills in the future.
The teacher's reflexive activity when visiting a colleague's lesson allows him to develop methodological competence. Thus, he improves himself, drawing for himself newlearning methods and tools.
It is the improvement of one's own professional level that is the main goal of attending another teacher's class. Therefore, the main goal of mutual attendance of lessons is the exchange of experience, as well as obtaining a new impetus in further professional activities. The main impetus for development is mindfulness and observation.
After visiting the lesson, the teacher writes down different moments and then analyzes them. If after that he saw flaws in his work or in the work of a colleague, then he is considering how to improve the technique.
After attending class
After mutual attendance of lessons, the teacher should comprehend what he wrote down during the event, as well as take part in the analysis of the work done and summarize. Then he should actively master the experience that he received in the lessons he attended. Also, the teacher in the future can conduct surveys, questionnaires, introduce new concepts and more effectively organize the process of independent work of students.
It will also help in the development of methodological competence. If you creatively interpret the experience gained, then you can find your own new approaches to organizing the educational process at school.
This practice contributes to the effective exchange of experience between teachers. Thus, the level of the educational process in the school increases.
If the guests of the lesson use visit cards, the effectiveness of the lesson will be much higher. Thanks to the cards, colleagues cantell the teacher what to pay attention to and what is better to miss in the future.
Analysis of lesson reciprocity - structural elements
To improve the effectiveness of such events, a lot of work needs to be done, where you need to draw up a lesson analysis plan. It includes:
- Main goals.
- Lesson organization.
- Compliance of the activity with generally accepted requirements.
- Lesson content.
- Methodology.
- Psychological foundations.
- Homework.
- New elements in the teacher's pedagogical activity.
Teaching Method Secrets
Teaching is a unique science. It can only be learned through trial and error. Even if you listen to a thousand lectures, you still won't be able to give a perfect lesson the first time, because you do not have sufficient skills and abilities. Only in practice does the teacher understand how certain methods work. Also, for each teacher, their own methods will be effective. They are different.
To improve teaching, you need to attend additional classes. In our case, this is mutual attendance of lessons between teachers. As the famous teacher Makarenko believed, a teacher should not only teach, but also learn himself.
Problems of young teachers
Mutual attendance of lessons by teachers is an important attribute for their professional growth. But there is a problem: young teachers often deliberately do not attend the lessons of their colleagues,explaining this by character traits. Often the school administration comes to classes, because the position obliges. Also, young teachers perceive open lessons as a punishment.
Also, a lot of things depend on the working conditions in a particular school. Everyone knows that mutual attendance of lessons is a voluntary matter. Often such experiences are shared by teachers working in the same school or one that is close to home.
But sometimes there is information that in some schools mutual attendance of lessons is carried out on a mandatory basis. For this purpose, a special journal is kept, where such classes are recorded.
How to organize something like this?
The process of mutual attendance of lessons by teachers looks like this:
Teachers are independently divided into groups. True, most often they are united by labor relations or various methodological associations. But you can group and teachers who work in the same class. This is best done by those teachers who work in the fifth or final grade. This will make it easier to find the relationship
You can also organize a special force group, where the leader will be the one who has completed special courses in teaching skills and shares his experience with colleagues. To do this, he must:
Set a goal. In this case, you need to answer a number of questions, among which there will be various leading questions to yourself. What will I give students today? Why am I going to class? How will it end? Is it needed at all? What methods and techniquesneed to be involved? There may be many such questions. They should be made up of a joint group of teachers. Each teacher sets goals with a certain bias
What is the result?
In order for mutual attendance of lessons by teachers to be effective, it is necessary to develop a number of recommendations. For example, in the first quarter, you can focus on the development of new technologies, in the second, develop critical thinking, and in the third, deal with the problems of lagging behind students, as well as give additional instructions to those who have talent and can show themselves at local Olympiads in subjects or excel at sports competitions.
Also, thanks to mutual visitation, each teacher of an organized group accumulates a huge amount of materials, where a large amount of methods and techniques are collected on one specific issue. This base can be processed together, which will increase the competence of each teacher sitting in the group.
To do this, you need to implement the following system:
- Make a schedule. Here you need to take into account the interests and work schedule of each teacher. In addition, you need to register windows. After all, not every teacher can come at a certain time.
- Make it easy. The organizer of such meetings can provide ready-made diagrams for lesson analysis. This will simplify the work of all teachers when visiting lessons. An example of such a document will be presented below. Also, forms can be filled out using a computer so as not to carry tons of paper back and forth.
Incentive. To teacherswillingly attended the lessons of their colleagues, it is necessary to keep an activity log with a rating. For example, 10 points for conducting an open lesson, 5 points for an event, etc. The list is endless. Encourage the best with some prizes or cash rewards. Also, additional time off will be a nice bonus
What should the administration adopt?
- Organize free attendance at lessons. This is much more efficient than a teacher just sitting through 20 lessons a quarter and not doing anything. The administration should show the practical importance of mutual attendance of lessons and encourage teachers in every possible way.
- Cultivate a positive attitude towards everyone.
- Require mandatory analysis from the teacher. If there is no detailed feedback, it means that the teacher came to serve time, and not to exchange experience with teachers during mutual attendance of lessons. Sample documents provided to teachers will greatly facilitate their work.
