Reading Recovery Professional Development Centres are equipped with a sound-proofed, one way screen situated between teaching space and viewing area, that accommodates up to 16 adults.

This unique facility enables Reading Recovery teachers to observe two Reading Recovery lessons taught by one of their peers at each Reading Recovery training session. ‘As they observe, they discuss the lesson. Freed from teaching the observing group can sharpen their observational powers and gain skills in prediction, hypothesizing and the minute by minute decision making that makes for high quality teaching.’ (Partners in Learning, Lyons, Pinnell, Deford)

The screen can also enhance Professional Development for other groups of educators where a shared observation of an activity can benefit a group of professionals in developing their learning. Centres have been successfully utilised in this way, forming part of a provision for a wider impact.