Teachers / trainers agree to work together to plan and lead an activity / series of activities. They visit each other’s classrooms / workshops and see how the activity which they have planned together is experienced by the learners. They use feedback from the learners to adapt and improve their approaches with subsequent groups.

Teachers are inevitably too busy to notice everything that happens while they are teaching, and this purposeful relationship enables another trusted colleague (who will be fully aware of the challenges posed by your learners) to detect what is happening and provide constructive insights that will help both teachers to improve their future provision for the learners.

Researchers have commented how shared ‘lesson study’ creates ‘safe’ motivating spaces for teachers to take risks and to learn together from their joint ‘seeing and understanding’ of their learners and sessions.