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.

One problem with conformity is that the benchmarks are usually arbitrary. For example, most observation forms disdain direct instruction — straightforwardly teaching kids things they don’t know.

And that score is based entirely on classroom observations of how teachers interact with their students: how they talk to them, whether they ask engaging questions to encourage language development ...

Houston ISD overhauled the rubric used to evaluate how well teachers perform during spot evaluations of their classrooms, one ...

Below are some examples of goals for classroom observations. Examine the Environment & Classroom Materials: Take a look at the classroom walls. What are the students expected to learn?

Classroom observations take a central role in these systems, accounting for the majority of teacher ratings upon which accountability decisions are based. Using data from the Measures of Effective ...

McLean and Jones collected survey data and video-recorded classroom observations from 65 fourth-grade teachers and 805 students in a Southwestern U.S. state. The surveys asked participants to report ...

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

The Classroom Assessment Scoring System, developed by Robert Pianta at the University of Virginia is a tool for analyzing the quality of teacher-student interactions in the 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 ...