As the course was winding down for Christmas and Brighton Language Schools were closing Jade came to the centre where I teach and observed one of my lessons. Although the lesson was a small group the lesson ran for one and a half hours and Jade observed for an hour.
During a post lesson chat Jade brought DEMAND HIGH TEACHING to my attention. This is something I have now looked into. Spearheaded by Adrian Underhill and Jim Scrivener, the focus of this approach is to let the students’ needs run the class. In everyday teaching I often find that I can be snowed under by bureaucracy and that learners’ needs don’t always seem easy to attend to. Demand High Teaching allows teachers to easily focus on students as individuals using the classroom to get as much as possible out of each learner; something I’m learning to implement in my classroom; please see below.
Please follow the link below for the peer observation sheets Jade completed while observing me, the plan and materials I used.
PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR MY PLAN AND MATERIALS AND JADE’S OBSERVATIONS