Observing has been a part of my training as a teacher for a couple of years now, but I never bothered to think about why it is considered to be so beneficial. It just seemed like the only way to get a peek at at what practicing teachers are doing in their classrooms and thereby learning by or against their examples. I never thought that it could also be beneficial to the practicing teacher. It does make sense after our readings though. I pay far more attention to what I'm doing every day when I know I'm being watched, so it makes sense that teachers would too. I also know that when I'm being watched, I tend to consider how what I'm doing looks to whoever is watching me, which functions as a sort of self-observation.