My son says his teacher is great when she’s being observed by the principal, but other days … not so much. So it seems like ...

Teachers can structure learning experiences by providing time and space for children to ask their own questions and make ...

Administrators can support effective professional learning by trusting teachers and giving them the tools to guide their ...

Consider this scenario: A principal pops into a classroom a couple of times a year and uses a checklist to evaluate a teacher’s performance, gaining little understanding of her style or effectiveness.

Interested in learning from colleagues and observing classes as a faculty member? University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will offer the Teachers Observing Teachers ...

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 controversy over the value of teaching evaluation surveys completed by students has led to increased calls to include some type of faculty observation as part of one’s teaching dossier. Those ...

Peer observation holds significant importance in improving the teaching effectiveness of instructors, as it provides a platform for instructors to engage in reflective practice, allowing them to ...

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 ...

I was in my first year of teaching high school social studies in Framingham, Massachusetts. I mostly taught sections of early U.S. history, which, as I often told people, was pretty cool because so ...