The beginning of a new school year brings many new opportunities to your school. The new school year brings new teachers, new students, new initiatives, and often new opportunities to learn and grow in your profession. Among the many opportunities for us this year was...
I have just read a most interesting article about ‘Fixing Classroom Observations’ (http://tntp.org/assets/documents/TObservations_2013.pdfNTP_FixingClassroom). It proposes ‘bringing the same focus and coherence to classroom observations that Common Core brings to...
Article 5 of the “Teacher Responses to Principal Feedback” series will discuss findings that teachers responded to principal feedback of classroom observations by reflecting on their teaching. Reflection is a powerful tool for teachers and, when used effectively, can...
A recent article in The Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, examined Teacher Performance Appraisals in Ontario, and found that they had little impact on teaching practice. Results of a study of 178 administrators using the Ontario provincial...
At the end of every school year it is good practice to reflect on your eWalk templates and review if the data collected by these templates was relevant to your school and to your established purpose for conducting classroom observations. Be sure to do this soon after...
Article three of the “Teacher Responses to Principal Feedback” series discussed how teachers will change behaviors as a result of principal feedback. If you recall, findings from that study indicated that teachers will change behaviors when they perceive principal...
