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.

When David D. Perlmutter wrote about peer evaluations of teaching last fall, he presented the practice as a rather lonely and combative undertaking. He described top-down, high-stakes classroom ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joy Hamm has taught 11 years in a variety of English-language settings, ranging from kindergarten to adult learners: One idea for making teacher observations a learning opportunity rather than a ...

Teaching is a complex activity, and the way that we evaluate teaching should ideally take into account this complexity. Although student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are often the primary way we ...

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 ...

Calling all CWRU faculty actively engaging students in your classrooms: UCITE wants YOU to open your class to colleagues for observation as part of UCITE TOTEs week! Once hosts have been identified, ...

The Observation Activity is central to the review process and much of the data generated in the process are gathered from this activity. There are several categories of observation, each with several ...

To glimpse what many see as the future of teacher education in America, don’t visit your local college campus. Rather, drive out Reisterstown Road to Owings Mills Elementary, site of one of several ...

Upon request, the Teaching and Learning Center will provide teaching observations for formative feedback. Teaching observations are confidential services that provide instructors the opportunity to ...