Peer Observation Form
A structured template for peer-to-peer classroom observations with pre-observation discussion notes, live observation evidence, and post-observation collaborative reflection.
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Greenwood International School PEER OBSERVATION FORM Observed Teacher: [observed_teacher] Observer: Dr. Michael Roberts Date: 2026-09-01 Subject: Mathematics Year Group: Year 10 Lesson Topic: [lesson_topic] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRE-OBSERVATION DISCUSSION Learning Objective for this lesson: What the teacher would like me to focus on: Any contextual information: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LIVE OBSERVATION EVIDENCE Time What I Observed (evidence-based) ────────────────────────────────────────────── [Time] [Observation] [Time] [Observation] [Time] [Observation] [Time] [Observation] [Time] [Observation] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STRENGTHS IDENTIFIED 1. [Strength with evidence] 2. [Strength with evidence] 3. [Strength with evidence] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUGGESTIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT 1. [Suggestion with rationale] 2. [Suggestion with rationale] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ POST-OBSERVATION REFLECTION What did you learn from this observation? How will you apply what you observed in your own practice? Any follow-up actions agreed: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Signatures: Observed: _________________________ Date: _________ Observer: _________________________ Date: _________ Greenwood International School
About This Template
Colleague-to-colleague observation with focus area, evidence and shared-practice notes — lighter than a formal lesson observation.
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How to Use This Template
Agree the focus before the lesson: complete Pre-Observation Discussion Notes together so the observed teacher knows what you are watching for. Fill Observation Date, Class Subject, Year Group and Lesson Topic on the day.
Record Live Observation Evidence as what happened, not judgements, then list Strengths Identified and Suggestions for Development in equal measure. Post-Observation Reflection belongs to the observed teacher — give them space to complete it before you discuss. Both sign, and revisit agreed ideas at a later drop-in rather than filing the form unread.
When to Use This Template
Scheduled lesson observation
Share the observation focus and rubric with the teacher beforehand, record evidence against each dimension, and agree on a next observation date.
Annual staff evaluation cycle
Run self-assessment, observation and results sections through the same rubric, then collate scores and goals for the performance review meeting.
Agreeing goals for the next cycle
Close each evaluation by recording two or three specific, measurable goals for the next period and the support the teacher will receive, then revisit them at the following observation.
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