Consider this scenario: A principal pops into a classroom a couple of times a year and uses a checklist to evaluate a teacher’s performance, gaining little understanding of her style or effectiveness.

Different observation tools are available to suit various needs. Policy makers in states from coast to coast are demanding more rigorous teacher evaluations that lead to real improvements in ...

UCITE teaching observations support faculty through collaborative interactions of classroom practices and the application of research on learning to more effectively and efficiently engage with ...

When in graduate schools learning the facets of school leadership, prospective school leaders were all trained “supervision.” The term, itself, implies watching and directing someone else’s actions.

ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cognia announced the release of its dynamic new Teacher Observation Tool™ that enables teachers to review their instructional practice across five dimensions of ...

The Faculty Teaching Fellows are an ACM-funded cohort of faculty at St. Olaf, Carleton, and Luther Colleges, practiced in peer observation of teaching, who can provide compassionate, low-stakes, ...

The CTE is committed to supporting instructors in delivering high-quality learning experiences for students and continuously improving their practice. We are also committed to supporting the ...

Have you ever been in a classroom when a principal walks in? Planned or random, evaluative or not, the atmosphere changes. The entrance of an administrator can create tension where there was none, or ...

On the scale of most anxiety-producing moments in teaching, few things top the dreaded peer observation. True, there are plenty of other sources of teaching angst, but none of them quite match the ...

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 ...

The controversy over the value of teaching evaluation surveys completed by students has led to increased calls to include some type of faculty observation as part of one’s teaching dossier. Those ...

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 insider told ...