Two recent studies on Cincinnati’s teacher-evaluation system provide some initial insights about classroom practices that seem to be linked to better student performance, and evidence that teachers ...

Teachers might be at a disadvantage during classroom observation of their instructional practice, which is one of the most widely-used tools for high-stakes job performance evaluations. And whether or ...

Instructional leaders need to know what is happening when the bell rings and the door closes — in every classroom, in every building, every day. And the best way to do that is through careful but ...

The Faculty Teaching Fellows are an ACM-funded cohort of faculty at St. Olaf, Carleton, and Luther Colleges, practiced in peer observation of teaching, who can provide compassionate, low-stakes, ...

Tyamber Moore, lead teacher at Clara’s Little Lambs Preschool Academy in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS —A little boy with a plastic dinosaur toddles over to his teacher at Clara's Little Lambs Preschool ...

The new mandate in Virginia to make student achievement a significant part of teacher evaluations is bringing more than an infusion of test scores. It's also changing the way classroom observations ...

Teacher observations cost the American education system nearly $1.5 billion a year, but the feedback teachers are receiving from them isn’t improving student achievement, argues Mark Dynarski, an ...

THE Department of Education (DepEd) recognizes the concerns raised by teachers regarding classroom observation, as Education Secretary Sonny Angara affirms that teachers’ welfare remains a priority.

Student evaluations of teaching are suspect -- but increasing classroom observation of professors as an alternative has its own set of problems, write Jonathan Golding and Philipp Kraemer. The ...

Our Faculty developers have extensive experience in education and can offer an outside perspective to instructors to assist in assessing their teaching. A classroom or online course observation can ...