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.

Job-Alike Observations: A more effective structure for teacher observations are job-alike observations. The purpose is to observe someone else who does the same job, often in a different building.

Not every teacher buys into the observation system. “It's a lot of pressure on the teachers,” says Shayanna Payton, another teacher at Clara's Little Lambs. She thinks that every observer grades ...

So, administrators, while your teacher observations may be just one more thing on a never-ending to-do list, take the time to provide some enthusiastic praise.

Washington, D.C. — Today the Center for American Progress released a new report recommending that when it comes to evaluating teachers through observation, America’s public K-12 schools have ...

Classroom observations to rate teachers are shifting focus to students. June 24, 2013. Bull Run Middle School principal Matthew Phythian (left) meets with Robert Knight, ...

An analysis found Black and male teachers in Tennessee received lower classroom observation scores than their white and female counterparts every pre-pandemic year since 2012. Chauncey Alcorn Jan ...

Erin Castillo, an english teacher at John F. Kennedy High School in Freemont, Calif., created a mental health check-in chart for her students. Now, teachers all over the world are making their own ...

A new method of teacher observation has shown that students who receive largely negative feedback from teachers have increased incidences of problems with emotional regulation, disruptive behavior ...

A sweeping new evaluation system would grade Houston ISD teachers based on their students' test scores, classroom observations, and "planning and professionalism," according to a draft proposal ...

Link to Resource: Comparing student growth and teacher observation to principal judgments in the evaluation of teacher effectiveness Authors: Derek Briggs, Nathan Dadey, Ruhan Kizil Citation: Briggs, ...

Erin Castillo, an educator at John F. Kennedy High School in Freemont, California, created a mental health check-in chart for her students. Now, she's inspiring teachers around the globe to make ...