Considering the impact of peer observation on teacher’s development

الملخص

Peer observation is an effective tool in the field of teacher's development. Bell (2005) has maintained that peer observation can help teachers improving their teaching skills. This paper considers the impact of peer observation on teacher’s development. In doing so, this paper will be divided into six parts. The first part will give detailed background about peer observation: its definition and what are teachers’ beliefs about the peer observation in the past and present. The second part explores the framework of peer observation which is consists of three main important stages (pre-observation meeting or session, during observation and post-observation session) in addition to the tasks that should be made by the observer and the observee in each stage. The third part shows how peer observation should be carried out by written narrative, field notes or by using checklists. The fourth part highlights the benefits and the challenges of implementing peer observation, elucidating to what extent peer observation affects teachers’ beliefs along with teaching and learning process.

The fifth part represents my experience of peer observation as an observer and as an observee in addition to illustrating how peer observation has a mighty impact on my beliefs and my experience as a language teacher. Finally, the conclusion summarizes the crucial points and ideas accomplished by this study