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title: Why use the Lesson Recording tool?
description: An article about the lesson recording tool for Mentors
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# Why use the Lesson Recording tool?

Because it can make reflection and feedback more effective and more flexible.

Recording lessons can help your ECT:

- notice things they miss while teaching
- reflect on specific moments
- get more concrete feedback from you as their mentor
- get feedback based on a wider range of lessons than in-person drop-ins alone

As a mentor, watching your ECT’s lesson recordings can help you:

- give more precise and evidence-informed feedback
- revisit parts of the lesson you want to discuss in more detail
- see a broader picture of your ECT’s practice over time, across different classes and contexts
- fit drop-ins and feedback more flexibly around both of your timetables

As a mentor, you can also record your own lessons to model effective practice. Watching and discussing these recordings with your ECT in weekly meetings can be a powerful way to make aspects of teaching more visible and illustrate particular approaches or techniques.

The following video from Katy Micklewright at the National Institute of Teaching explains more about why you would use the lesson recording tool.

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