Session 3
You watch them
- Who
- The two of you, around a session they run start to finish. You are in the room and not part of it.
- Where this sits
- Discern and Develop
- They leave with
- A session they ran alone, with a filled sheet about it
- One row chosen by them, not by you
- A decision about whether they want you in the room next time
The arc: 90 minutes
- 5 min
Before. Agree what you will do if something goes badly, and where you will sit.
What do you want me to do if a beat stops working?
- 50 min
The session. They run it. You tally and do not intervene beyond what you agreed.
- 10 min
Straight after, you place the rubric. They place one for themselves at the same time, separately.
- 20 min
Debrief. They read theirs first, then you read yours.
Where do our two sheets disagree?
- 5 min
They pick the row. Agree whether there is a next time and what it is for.
Look for
- The two sheets disagreeing about the gate-check column. That disagreement is the most useful thing in the stage and it is worth more than either sheet alone.
- Beats running long and the asking beats absorbing the loss. It is the same compression as stage two and it is easier to see from a chair.
- Learners routing questions to you. If it keeps happening, that is about where you sat, not about them.
- A self-placed rubric harsher than yours. Say so plainly rather than treating it as modesty.
- Nothing at all in your weak-answers column. Check it against the session rather than accepting it.
- They ran a session or they did not. If the gate was asked and heard, they can run the track. That is the whole bar, and it is worth saying out loud rather than implying they need another round.
Tips
- Agree the intervention rule beforehand and then honour it. A coach who steps in once has run the session.
- Sit somewhere learners have to turn to reach you. It changes the default without anybody being told.
- Both of you placing a rubric separately is the point of this stage. One sheet is an assessment; two sheets are a conversation.
- Running short, cut your own commentary. Their sheet, your sheet, and where they disagree is the whole stage.
Print before the session
They run a whole session and you sit at the back with the sheet, which is the same position they were in at stage one.
Both of you fill in a rubric afterwards, separately and before you talk. Where the two disagree is the conversation, and it is more useful than either sheet would be on its own.