When it comes to promoting teacher effectiveness, classroom observations of teachers are critically important, but sadly they have become rote, and the opportunity to provide teachers serious feedback ...

(This is the final post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here.) The new question-of-the-week is: How can administrators (and even other teachers) best do ...

The Center on Education Policy recently released a report called “Listen to Us: Teacher Views and Voices.” Based on an online survey given last winter to educators around the country, the report ...

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 ...

Instructional leaders need to know what is happening when the bell rings and the door closes — in every classroom, in every building, every day. And the best way to do that is through careful but ...

Talk to any teacher, and you'll soon realize something surprising: they're lonely. No, not in the typical sense of craving social relationships. Teachers are lonely in the sense that they do most of ...

Student teaching is a full-time program, requiring at least 13 weeks in a prek-12 classroom with a mentor teacher. A teacher candidate works five days each week in the classroom. During the first week ...

Policy makers around the world struggle with how to ensure that teachers are effective in the classroom. Pay-for-performance schemes, which provide teacher bonuses, have become increasingly popular, ...