Observation protocol scores are commonly used as status measures to support inferences about teacher practices. When multiple observations are collected for the same teacher over the course of a year, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Time spent observing teachers’ work is either time well spent, or simply time spent. As human beings, and as professionals, we can always find places where our practice can be improved. As a result of ...

Video recordings are replacing live teacher observations in many classrooms. Thanks to the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, videotaping teachers has become a focal point of discussions ...

I was in my first year of teaching high school social studies in Framingham, Massachusetts. I mostly taught sections of early U.S. history, which, as I often told people, was pretty cool because so ...

Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles speaks during a press conference on Jan. 17, 2024. Hours before the state-installed management board of Houston ISD approved a new system for evaluating the ...

Talk to any teacher, and you'll soon realize something surprising: they're lonely. No, not in the typical sense of craving social relationships. Teachers are lonely in the sense that they do most of ...

A sweeping new evaluation system would grade Houston ISD teachers based on their students' test scores, classroom observations, and "planning and professionalism," according to a draft proposal ...