ABSTRACT
The idea of producing lesson profiles is to try and find a way of ordering all the different events that go on during a lesson. It is a way of producing a coded reconstruction of classroom activities so that we can begin to talk about what goes on with some common reference to perception and understanding. Having got into the habit of thinking of lessons as a structured sequence of events it is not always necessary to produce the profile-it is intended as a means of understanding events rather than as an end product in itself.
