And in the Beginning: How Do We Start a Lesson?
I have signed up to take part in a staff peer mentoring scheme at school. This was all well and good (a bit of peer mentoring can be a great thing in helping validate how great we are as educators), but when I was asked what I would like the focus to be, while I admit that there is always areas of improvement, I was stuck for an exact area to develop. As a solution to this the mentoring coordinator suggested that he might come in and video a lesson and then we could see what develops from there. Of course the lesson we had arranged for the videoing to take place in was on a day where the HoD was bedridden with man flu (actually it might have been proper flu as nothing usually slows him down)! This meant I was having to get cover work sorted for his classes, briefing the cover teacher and starting the lesson. Even with these beginnings and rushing about, on reviewing the video I realised the area that I really needed to work on with my own class was right there - the start