Getting more than you bargained for

As the rolling stones once sang "you can't always get what you want" (actually they sang this many times but that would ruin the saying). However sometimes we actually get what we want and more. In a follow up action to the conference I asked if I could observe some more experienced teachers (as I hadn't had the chance to see any since I have been here and it is certainly a great way to pick up tips for teaching your own class). The response was highly positive towards my suggestions! "Of course you can, in fact why don't we do what we did last year" [alarm bells] "a peer observation week when any teacher can observe any other teacher with no for warning" [arg!!!] plus we can do lesson observation master classes where experienced teachers take your class and you can see how they deal with the class and pick up some things from them."

Okay so this will actually be a great experience and to be honest we often only get a very short notification that we will be observed anyway [and our lessons should be good enough for observations even if they aren't observed!] so it should actually be a great experience. Still I was hoping to observe more lesson and not to be observed more!