Particularly useful if you have regular performance management in your company, but might also work for lesson observation feedback more generally:
Fag break during class- Fostering learner autonomy
Waffling on while students doodle in their notebooks- Dictation: New Methods, New Possibilities
Badly graded language- Catering to mixed levels
Coffee stain or badly placed holepunching on the original that hides some of the reading text on the handouts- Authentic materials
L2 interference, e.g. using Konglish, because you’ve been in the country so long you can’t remember how people back home speak- Using English as an International Language/ English as a Lingua Franca
Letting your students chat while you stare out the window- The Silent Way
Chatting/ Not planning- Dogme
Offending your students with cultural faux pas- Awareness raising
Students correcting your grammar explanations/ spelling- Elicitation
Laughing at your students’ mistakes- Experimenting with alternatives to traditional error correction
Texting someone while they are doing pairwork- Using technology in class
Flirting- Giving students individual attention
A text that is much too difficult for them to understand- Teaching guessing vocabulary from context and skimming/ scanning skills
Finishing lessons late- Adding value
Starting late- Introducing students to cultural differences such as variations in the way time is viewed
Dating students- Fostering international understanding
Sleeping with ugly students- Responding to student needs
A lesson where they don’t learn anything new- Revision
A lesson which is much too easy- Confidence building
Being fooled during placement testing by a student who has guessed what you are going to ask them and rehearsed their answers but is actually Elementary- Using CEFR Can Do statements
Bringing your children into class because your wife has left you and you can’t afford a babysitter- Using realia
Any more?
Hehe, excellent post Alex!
Stretching out an activity because you haven’t planned enough and still have 10 mins left – fully exploiting materials.
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Nice! Or
Stretching out one worksheet for a whole class – materials-lite
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