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Content: They need to ask, “Has that boy made any progress?” Now, if as a teacher, we answer, “I don’t know.” Then we’re asking for it. We’re giving up our right to be treated like an expert. But if we can demonstrate our knowledge of said student and point (in his book) to the progress he has made over time, what rational human being could argue with this? Observation feedback should be a series of questions with the observer genuinely trying to find out what was going on in the snapshot they were privileged to have seen. Some questions worth asking include: Where does this lesson fit into your sequence of teaching? What have students had to learn in order to get to this point? What did they already know?