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 ...

How do you handle lessons for class observation days? ~Secretly teaching young teachers the behind-the-scenes of Kamity ⑤~

Teachers also feel a bit nervous during class observation days, don't they?“What kind of lesson should I do?”“What kind of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Harvard Medical School

Lessons in observation

What do the gold-plated skeleton of a wooly mammoth, an immersive art history class, and a pack of monogamous mice have in common? Plenty, it turns out, and those similarities can teach us about our ...