Giving peer feedback:

One of the HADEF task and the faculty task is to observe a teacher when she gives
feedback for a student during teaching practice and vice versa. My friend Diane, wanted
to come and observe me giving feedback to one of my students. She came to the
classroom and she wrote some notes about the students teaching. After the class, she
sat beside me to observe how I give feedback to my student regarding her lesson. So,
after I finished giving the feedback, she discussed with me about it and she gave me
suggestions such as give the students more chance to explain why they teach certain
strategies and give more details about what students should do better next time.
In the next day I went to observe her and I attended her students class and sat
with her after the class finished to discuss what happened in the classroom. Then I sat
with her individually and discussed how was the feedback and how to make it better.
Peer feedback encourages our self-esteem and confidence because the observer
sees things that the teacher cant see or notice. It enhances the social relationship
between teachers and it builds better skills and ideas in order to let students learn from
us as teachers. I think that peer feedback is the only way to improve yourself as a teacher
because people see the other side of you that you dont see because you focus on
teaching rather than how to teach. I would love to do the peer feedback every semester
because I want to learn all teachers and to build my skills in order to be better next time.