The title of this article is inspired by the chorus line of the well-known pop song ‘I don’t like Mondays’ by the Boomtown Rats. Now, while English teachers, like everyone else, may not always be delighted to return to the classroom after a relaxing weekend, they tend to have a much stronger dislike of being observed while teaching. Observations do seem to cause remarkable levels of stress among language teachers. Recent articles in MET about teacher observations (Manente, 2023; Woolloshin, 2024) have taken as their starting point the reality of teachers’ generally negative reactions to the . . .
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