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 ...

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 8th grade civics teacher ...

Each observation consists of a 15-second scan of the classroom, starting with the teacher, and including a headcount of the students who are visibly not engaged with the teacher at that moment. All ...

Readers with excellent observation skills can find three differences between the pictures of a teacher in the classroom in 11 seconds. Can you? Test your attentiveness now!