Last year, Kay Staley and Jessica Scherer, literacy coaches in the Kettle Moraine district in Wisconsin, led groups of teachers in a book study on close reading—a complex and important skill ...

Here’s the hype: New York City’s “worst teacher” was recently singled out and so labeled by the New York Post after the city’s education department released value-added test-score ratings to the media ...

Evaluating teaching effectively requires thoughtful alignment with evidence-based practices and the inclusion of diverse perspectives. The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) supports departments and ...

Prioritizing teaching quality in a new system of teacher evaluation Download PDF Subscribe to the Education Outlook Series Teachers are the most important school-level factor in student success—but as ...

Miami University stresses the importance of high-quality teaching and its impact on student learning and recognizes that there are differing professional views on the nature and utility of evaluation ...

Formal Evaluation by the Site director: Site directors serve as the main liaison between Drexel University and the school where the teacher candidate is placed. The site director is expected to visit ...

The teaching evaluation system consists of three components: student evaluation, peer or colleague evaluation, and self-evaluation. The evaluation of teaching provides information that instructional ...

The great American philosopher John Dewey noted: “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” In the College of Arts and Sciences, we are all about creating more ...

I never have the delusion of considering myself a perfect teacher. Never do I worry either that I flub teaching. I apparently have the credentials and skills to approach teaching in an informed ...

As covered in the Part 1 and Part 2 companions to this article, teachers deserve honest feedback on how they’re doing. This second installment on this topic covers additional steps to providing ...

The teaching evaluation system consists of three components: student evaluation, peer or colleague evaluation, and self-evaluation. The evaluation of teaching provides information that instructional ...