ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a few comments on Chapter 11 by Berliner and Rosenshine. One obvious way of increasing the teacher's self-awareness is by having an outside observer in the classroom who will report to the teacher on what he sees. Unfortunately, this is not a very practical alternative for most teachers, for there simply are not enough outside observers to go around. Consequently, there is a need to develop techniques that will enable teachers to move toward such a goal on their own. It is obvious to even a casual observer that teachers in elementary school classrooms do not spend equal amounts of time in each portion of the room. The presence of the teacher is rarer, in other words, in some parts of the room than others. Interestingly enough, however, teachers are not always fully conscious of how their physical presence or absence affects what is going on in the room and their perception of it.
