Advantages And Disadvantages Of Peer Observation

6.2 Limitations

Many teachers were skeptic toward the positive results from the Peer Observation process. I believe this is due to our nature of our culture. Albanians in general are known for their egoism. My belief not only based on understanding the background culture of our people but on the everyday behavior as well as on the teachers’ interviews, demonstrates unprofessionalism toward accomplishing the tasks of Peer Observers. In some cases both parties react based on their selfishness.
We have observers”acting” inspectors whose approach wasn’t acceptable by the teachers who would be observed. On the other hand we face teachers denying observation by their peers for the reason of underestimation.
The first group “some” observers who were acting supervisors weren’t

No suggestion or not any careful language used helped them soften their counterpart. They simply faced underestimation in each and every attempt.
These were the major limitations during the different phases of peer Observation process. But these limitations are crucial to be changed in order for a wellbeing process to proceed.
Here I want to add, why I suggested having the teachers trained before this process goes further. With the positive arguments, appropriate examples and opened discussions during the trainings we would reach to convince teachers behave more professionally.
Whatever their role would be in the future “an observer” or “an observed teacher” they would be knowledgeable enough to react.
Otherwise, if not being trained we’ll have exactly the same expectations and we will face exactly the same situation where “some” subjects will feel as supervisors although they are just equal or “other” subjects will show underestimation because they don’t understand what the exact role to play there is.
6.3 Suggestion for well implementation of peer