Step 1: Pre-observation conference During this meeting, the instructor and the observer clarify the goals and purposes of the classroom observation. The instructor asks the observer to watch for a ...

Traditional observation models are oriented around the observer as learner--either an administrator learning about a teacher’s effectiveness or a colleague learning from a master teacher.

"In the old days, you were just plopped in a classroom and did what the people before you did," Ross said. "It's nice to have a lot more training." South Asia Studies professor Deven Patel, who joined ...

Actual engagement in learning is even more difficult to observe. While we value student compliance in our schools, compliance does not equal engagement or learning; consider the well-behaved high ...

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At another New York City school, John J. Pershing Middle School, where 40 percent of the 1,300 students are English-learners, Marcus Artigliere and his team of six fellow ESL teachers are working ...

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 ...

Gill and the 23 other teachers in a master’s degree program in English As a Second Language hope they can help the teachers while they observe Puerto Rico’s educational system beginning today.