To ease any anxiety
about informal observations (particularly if this is a new practice) I recommend that an observer begin by announcing the day or the week these will be taking place.
Not exact matches
Other sources of information,
informal observations, trial and error, and your personal values and beliefs will no doubt continue to deeply inform your choices
about how to raise your kids.
Speaking
about the federal models for schools identified as Persistently Lowest Achieving, Mulgrew said that the union could not come to an agreement with the DOE on the transformation or turnaround models because the UFT wanted a teacher to be able to discuss an
informal observation write - up with an administrator, but the DOE refused to require that.
Currently, many teachers view
observation as the same thing as evaluation when in fact these structures (
informal, formal and walkthrough
observations) provide a means for gathering what Charlotte Danielson, Dr. Robert Marzano and others experts refer to as a preponderance of evidence in order to make a reasoned judgment
about a teacher's overall practice.
I recently received a question from a teacher in Indiana who expressed concern
about unannounced
informal observations as a way for principals to catch teachers off guard.
Under the Toledo Peer Assistance and Review program,
about a dozen «consulting teachers» on leave from their classrooms for three years mentor and evaluate Toledo's first - year teachers through frequent,
informal classroom
observations and as many as six (usually unannounced) evaluations each semester.
Many administrators are well aware of the flaws in their
informal observation methods, and at the same time, they are accountable for ensuring and reporting
about specific practices that are occurring in classrooms.
I put on my Sherlock Holmes hat and went out to a few schools to have some
informal conversations with teachers
about their thoughts on our (fairly) new
observation protocols.
A main finding that emerges from the survey is that K - 3 teachers use
observations, anecdotal evidence,
informal inventories, and work samples as their main sources of evidence
about children's reading achievement and progress.
In order to effect change through classroom
observations it's essential to follow through afterwards with a post-observation conference or even an
informal chat
about the data.
When I asked
about how they felt
about the follow - up conversations they were having, either formal post-
observation conferences or
informal chats I found that 75 % of the time they would receive their
observation data via email and there was no follow through.
My
informal observation of Australian students 9both at senior high school and at university) suggests that for most the first point of call when they come across something they are supposed to know
about but don't is the internet — usually Google followed by Wikipedia.
Assessors should attempt to provide details such as their formal and
informal observations, as well as any test results, to support any conclusions
about an individual's functional abilities.
School
observations may also be utilized to gather
informal observation and anecdotal information
about your child's classroom challenges in preparation for and IFSP / IEP meeting.
Fact: While there indeed may be no universal longing of all women for motherhood (which sometimes has been mis - called «maternal instinct»), or instinctual knowledge of women
about how to care for infants, as applied to women's actual pregnancy and post-childbirth experiences, «scientists have yet to find a definitive explanation for the heightened sensitivity so often associated with mothering... Some research and
informal observation ssuggest that the caregiving experience develops a stronger intuitive tie between the infant and the parent most often responsible for meeting the infant's needs.