Houston ISD overhauled the rubric used to evaluate how well teachers perform during spot evaluations of their classrooms, one ...

Step 1: Pre-observation conference During this meeting, the instructor and the observer clarify the goals and purposes of the classroom observation. The instructor asks the observer to watch for a ...

For example, an observer may not have taught the course being observed or may not have taught a class of the same size. How valid are judgments about teaching in a class of 500 made by an observer who ...

One problem with conformity is that the benchmarks are usually arbitrary. For example, most observation forms disdain direct instruction — straightforwardly teaching kids things they don’t know.

Education Teachers need to know classroom observations will be used to help them, not as a 'gotcha' - panel Published: May. 17, 2012, 8:19 p.m.

An administrator said my students were "disengaged" and yet there's more to it than that, writes a 25-year teaching veteran.

Black and male teachers in Tennessee consistently receive lower classroom observation scores than their peers, according to a new study.

The prevalence and nature of bullying was assessed on the basis of observations of children's interactions in the classroom. This study was based on a systemic-developmental model of bullying and ...