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Peer Lesson Observation in Language Teaching

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2019-1-CZ01-KA204-061120
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for adult education Funder Contribution: 45,390 EUR

Peer Lesson Observation in Language Teaching

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The aim of the project is to develop and launch a system of peer observation for development of language teachers of the participating organisations. The participating organisations are institutions focused on language teaching in adult sector - 3 language schools from the Czech Republic (coordinator), Malta and Italy. The participants have already co-operated together and now they would like to extend their co-operation, develop a system of peer observation for teacher development they are missing.This project is focused on improving the quality of teachers' skills and the competences of teachers. Under the project the teachers will get an opportunity to get and adopt feedback to their teaching and thus their skills and competences will increase. The excellence of teachers will be rewarded and recognized because they will get an opportunity to give feedback to their international colleagues. The school will create a system of international and also internal (national) peer observations, which will support the overall quality of the participating institutions as educators. The project will support internationalisation of our institutions as both teachers and students will be involved into lesson observations.The project is innovative because it will include virtual observations through a distant access to the observed calls (e.g. through Skype or another technology).Context: Our institutions teach languages, mainly (but not only) to adult students. All institutions have an internal system of quality control, teacher control and development. The system of control and teacher development involves provision of feedback to the teachers by methodologist, director, students, questionnaires of satisfaction etc. None of our organisations has a system of peer lesson observation - that means that teachers get feedback from their colleagues (peers) who observe lessons and then comment on them. Peer observations have benefits for both parties - the teaching teacher gets feedback to his/her style of teaching and particular lesson and the observing teacher has an opportunity to contemplate about the observed lesson, its targets and results, and be inspired by strengths and weaknesses of the teaching student. Moreover, when the peer observation is done internationally, all institutions will benefit from the opportunity of observing the differences, strengths and weaknesses and mainly best practices practised in the partner´s institutions and foreign countries. The observations will be done in regular lessons of our institutions, so not only teachers but also students will get an opportunity to meet international colleagues, which will strongly strengthen the internationalisation of our institutions.The needs addressed by this project are:A. The need to improve the quality of language teaching through development of teachers, by sharing best practises and creating a system of peer observations.B. Increase internationalisation of participating organisations so that the students and teachers are involved into international co-operation and have an opportunity to share their experience internationally.The objective of this project is:1. to build a system of peer observations. Create Framework, instructions, tools and materials (GUIDEBOOK) for language teachers to enable them to perform peer observations of high quality in local and international context, face2face but also with a distant, virtual access. Observations would be run in a local and also international context both in face2face and distant forms (video recordings of lessons or access through technology like Skype etc.). The teachers will get a guidebook and tools for performance and evaluation of peer observations.2.Perform 108 international face2face peer observations 3. Perform 24 virtual observations. 4. The created system of peer observation will be used internally by the participating organisations after the project ends to ensure sustainability.Target group:The main target group for this project is teachers of languages of the participating organisations. Each organisation will send 6 language teachers to the other partnering organisations and receive 6 + 6 teachers of the partners, so in total 18 teachers will participate. The project will be managed by two project leaders and coordinators on the side of every participating organisation.

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