Education Week

Lesson Plans & Observations: Are You Getting Value for Time Spent?

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 ...
TES

Lesson Observation Planning Form

**Lesson Observation Planning Form: Your Essential Guide to a Successful Lesson Observation Designed specifically for Early Career Teachers (ECTs), this comprehensive planning form helps you organise ...

"Teacher, what are we doing for the open class?" The thoughts behind a 45-minute "Dream Lesson" and the behind-the-scenes of creating teaching materials

"Teacher, what are we doing for the next open class?"When open class day approaches, this conversation always starts in the ...
Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

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 ...
philstar.com

Reclaiming classroom observation as a tool for learning, not fear

For many teachers today, classroom observation no longer feels like professional support. It has become a moment of performance, something to be rehearsed, perfected, and survived. Lessons are ...
Brookings Institution

Using video to make classroom observations more fair, more helpful, and less burdensome

The Best Foot Forward project at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard has been investigating the use of digital video to make classroom observations more helpful and fair to teachers ...
Brookings Institution

Evaluating Teachers with Classroom Observations: Lessons Learned in Four Districts

Matthew M. Chingos Former Brookings Expert, Senior Fellow, Director of Education Policy Program - Urban Institute The federal government has spurred the creation of a new generation of teacher ...