ABSTRACT
What are the benefits of using this strategy? What are the limitations?
b. Observe a particular classroom through different perspectives or circumstances. For example, you might
• focus on the teacher during one set of observations and on the students during another
• change where you sit from one observation to the next • observe on different days
How does the change of focus, site, or day, etc. affect what you see in this classroom? Is there anything that intrigues, surprises, or puzzles you? What do your different observations teach you about the teaching and learning experience in this classroom? What do your
different observations teach you about the nature of observing and understanding classrooms?
