Ralph Krauss works in digital innovations at Pinecrest Academy of Nevada, a group of five charter schools in the Las Vegas area, and Academica Virtual Education, a support service for virtual schools.

When it comes to promoting teacher effectiveness, classroom observations of teachers are critically important, but sadly they have become rote, and the opportunity to provide teachers serious feedback ...

Classroom observation refers to occasions when learning and teaching activities are observed for a specific purpose by someone other than the normal class teacher and support staff Effective classroom ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS —A little boy with a plastic dinosaur toddles over to his teacher at Clara's Little Lambs Preschool Academy, in the Algiers neighborhood on the west bank of the Mississippi. “Oooooh!

When something is used for more than one purpose, it loses it power. Three examples can be found in lesson plans, observations/evaluations, and PowerPoint ...

I recently tweeted the question: What's the best CPD you've ever had as a teacher? And what's the worst? The 25-plus answers I received fell into two distinct camps. Worst: Being talked-at, ...

How do you feel about lesson observations? Ofsted's recent statement that their inspectors "must not favour a particular teaching style" throws up a number of questions that, last month, we invited ...