When David D. Perlmutter wrote about peer evaluations of teaching last fall, he presented the practice as a rather lonely and combative undertaking. He described top-down, high-stakes classroom ...

The Faculty Teaching Fellows are an ACM-funded cohort of faculty at St. Olaf, Carleton, and Luther Colleges, practiced in peer observation of teaching, who can provide compassionate, low-stakes, ...

Different observation tools are available to suit various needs. Policy makers in states from coast to coast are demanding more rigorous teacher evaluations that lead to real improvements in ...

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!

Classroom observations — one of the most widely-used forms of teacher evaluation — might be setting teachers up to fail Teachers might be at a disadvantage during classroom observation of their ...

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 ...

Next week (February 13-17) is International Love Data Week (#LoveData23), which is about “inspiring our community to use data to bring about changes that matter.” This is a great time to think about ...

The principal of Banana Kelly HS in the South Bronx has faked classroom observations of her faculty, staffers charge. “She’s destroyed the integrity of the whole evaluation system,” an insider told ...