Curriculum Leadership Development (CLD) Programme Theme-based Workshop on Managing Change – Engaging and Enabling the Panel through Conducting Lesson Observations (Webinar)

Date :

16 October 2020 (Friday)

Time :

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Mode :

Webinar

Platform :

Zoom

Objectives :

• To demonstrate how effective lesson observations can be used as a vehicle to promote professional growth and foster a learning culture in the English panel

• To explore how lesson observations can be used as a tool to improve student learning

• To provide a platform for participants of the CLD programme to share their experience in writing up a subject plan, difficulties or challenges encountered and possible solutions

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm

• Sharing findings of a pre-workshop survey about how lesson observations are conducted in the participants' schools

• Sharing a school-based lesson observation practice

3:15 pm - 3:55 pm

• Introducing the Kotter's 8-step change model and how curriculum leaders (CLs) can engage and enable the panel through conducting lesson observations

• Preparing observers for a focused lesson observation on catering for learner diversity

• Observing and giving feedback on an online lesson and exploring what makes an effective online lesson

3:55 pm - 4:20 pm

• Highlighting the features of effective feedback

• Introducing a protocol for post-lesson observation discussion

• Sharing case studies to explore how to transform observations into quality feedback and maintain a professional dialogue

• Recapping how to apply CL capabilities through post-lesson observation tasks

4:20 pm - 4:25 pm

• Providing a recap of how to conduct effective lesson observations (LO) and how LO can promote teacher, panel, curriculum and school development

4:25 pm – 5:00 pm