They may well help defuse your anxieties about peer observation and lead to the best report you are capable of obtaining. Be assertive in scheduling the teaching observation.

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 ...

Policy makers are demanding more rigorous teacher evaluations—and central to this effort are software tools that help school leaders record their observations of classroom teaching. Here, we compare ...

The report recommends that districts try to level the playing field by adjusting teachers’ observation scores based on the demographics of the students they instruct.

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.

Teachers who participated in a year-long study comparing video-recorded and in-person classroom observations found the video observation process fairer and more useful overall than in-person ...

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

Robert Pianta looks at lessons learned from teacher observation in early childhood education that may be helpful as states and districts begin implementing more rigorous observation protocols for ...

The classroom-observation report came out of a unique high school club called Best Practices, founded in the fall of 2004 by 10 students at Lexington High School, in Lexington, Mass.

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 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 ...

The principal of Banana Kelly HS in the South Bronx has faked classroom observations of her faculty, staffers charge. “She’s destroyed the integrity of the whole evaluation system,” an ...