I went to the same school I mentioned last week (last week?). Had more of a chat with Mr 8 Year Old. Amongst a variety of topics, he wanted to know if people from England are English and people from Malaysia are Malaysian, then what are people from New Zealand? That's pretty damn sophisticated!
Observed the two teachers - their lessons were pretty awful actually. But, we had FANTASTIC post-observation discussions which were very productive including telling them that they have homework - that they need to read out to themselves or to each other the strengths they have as teachers because they were so uncomfortable self-validating themselves. Anyway, I have a specific follow-up plan with both of them which I think is achievable.
I felt like I actually knew what I was doing and did it well.
Roll on the full-day workshop tomorrow.
I think I'm going to head off to bed very shortly ... zzzzzzz