The Best Foot Forward project at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard has been investigating the use of digital video to make classroom observations more helpful and fair to teachers ...

Schools of all kinds use teacher observation as a tool for evaluating and improving teacher performance. The observer may be the school principal, a professional teaching coach or a veteran teacher ...

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 ...

Ralph Krauss works in digital innovations at Pinecrest Academy of Nevada, a group of five charter schools in the Las Vegas area, and Academica Virtual Education, a support service for virtual schools.

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 ...

Among Steinberg and Garrett’s findings: • Math teachers were six times more likely to be among the top performers when assigned students who were the highest achievers the previous year. English ...

“The best thing about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest thing about being a teacher is that it matters every day.” Todd Whitaker As much as Todd Whitaker was talking about teachers, I’m ...

Effective classroom observation is proven to improve teaching and raise levels of attainment, according to a report published today by Wales’ education watchdog. Chief inspector Ann Keane said that ...

Classroom observation involves a colleague or CTE staff member visiting a class session to provide constructive feedback. It can also be used for self-reflection. Whether conducted by a peer or with ...