Classroom observations to rate teachers are shifting focus to students. June 24, ... he gives them a “SOAR card” which they can exchange for a small prize for “contributing to the learning ...

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.

Step 2: Observation Classroom Observation (face-to-face or online) The observer arrives well in advance. The instructor explains the process to students and introduces the observer. The observer takes ...

Students and teachers engage in a personal dance; we do not teach classes, we teach students. Direct observation of classroom performance can be a major intrusion that disrupts the very nature of the ...

Teach Primary is a free classroom observation tool that provides a window into one of the less explored and more important aspects of a child’s education: what goes on in the classroom.The tool is ...

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 ...

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 ...