Sentences with phrase «observers of classroom practice»

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Another study will assess the impact of different frequencies of observations on teachers and whether teachers trained as observers also improve their own classroom practice.

Engaging others in the process will increase the frequency and breadth of feedback conversations, reduce the inefficiencies of relying on a single observer, and create opportunities for more frequent, formative conversations about classroom practice.

There is a second way in which value - added could be used as a screener — not of teachers, but of the classroom observers who rate teacher practice.

At the end of the observation, the observer wrote a summary addressing seven key features of the classroom ecology: (a) the general instructional approach used in the classroom, instructional sequences observed, approaches to word recognition, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction; (b) curriculum materials used; (c) teacher's style of interacting with the children; (d) teacher's grouping practices, and activities of children not with the teacher; (e) student engagement; (f) classroom management; and (g) classroom climate.

Each of the data collection tools narrowly focus on specific effective classroom practices — data can be collected by observers in short classroom visits of 10 minutes or more and shared.