Teacher residency programs are transformative models for preparing educators for the K-12 teaching experience. These clinically-rich, immersive programs combine mentorship, year-long co-teaching in ...

New program lets educators review tape of themselves and learn to do better — just like professional athletes.

Under the Results-Based Performance Management System, classroom observation is embedded in the Individual Performance ...

Joy Hamm has taught 11 years in a variety of English-language settings, ranging from kindergarten to adult learners: One idea for making teacher observations a learning opportunity rather than a ...

The Metropolitan School District of Decatur Township has been successfully using video in our teacher professional learning for more than seven years. According to our recently retired former ...

These strategies bring teachers together and naturally generate evidence of coaching’s impact on student learning.

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 ...

Teachers teach, so it seems natural to assume that watching them teach is the best way to find out how good they are. But while it may be taken for granted, a growing body of evidence suggests that ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How can administrators (and even other teachers) best do observations of a lesson? I think it’s safe to say that most teachers, including us veterans, get nervous when ...