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 ...

A new national survey sheds some light on how teachers value evaluative feedback, finding that most teachers do think they have made improvements to their practice as a result of their evaluation ...

Providing extra feedback for teachers and principals may help boost student achievement in math, according to a new federal study. While more districts nationwide are incorporating classroom ...

Amy Wilkins is vice president of the Education Trust, a research and advocacy group. Updated September 7, 2010, 4:58 PM Parents know that some teachers are stronger than others. Teachers know it, too.

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. An AI tool that takes ...

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. I was describing my ...

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Houston ISD officials said this week that 18 campuses have been collecting feedback since August on the district's proposed teacher evaluation system. Sitting side-by-side in a recorded presentation, ...

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, ...

I sat through a conference where the teachers told me all the things my son is doing wrong, but not a single positive word from any of them. What’s wrong with teachers who can’t say something positive ...