Survey shows that being a teacher is lonely job

Novus

According to The Economist, June 2106, 40% of teachers in the OECD have never observed another teacher or given feedback. A new survey conducted by Novus in Sweden during the academic year 2016/2017 only 35 percent of Swedish teachers had someone else – a teacher colleague, a principal or a coach – visiting their classroom during the last two semesters. However, only 11 percent of the teachers indicated that they regularly received constructive feedback after or in connection with the visits. The core of systematic quality assurance – to improving teaching – is a major development area for schools in many countries.

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Lesson observations since 2010 has lead to improved learning outcome

Principle in office with schedule

Filipstad has been focused on systematic lesson observations since 2010. This is one of five clear success criteria for Filipstad’s school district improving learning outcome dramatically over the past years. The Principal Gun Palmkvist begins her work with planning for a new academic year with first putting her approximately 70 lesson observations into her calendar. Then she continues to plan all the other matters that needs to be organised for the new academic year. Look at this video (in Swedish).

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