It is common practice in many educational institutions for teachers to be observed just once a year. This annual observation can be a stressful experience; often high stakes with the outcome directly linked to performance management. As a result, teachers can feel under pressure to ‘perform’ an...
Socratic Seminar and Fishbowl Take your classroom discussions one step further with the fishbowl method. A small group of students sits in the middle of the class. They discuss and debate a topic, while their classmates listen silently and make notes. Eventually, the teacher opens the discussion ...
Providing these mentor journals, combined with guided observation and discussion, gives students motivation and purpose when creating and using a journal of their own. Building Relationships through Sketchbooks Often, sketchbooks can offer a gateway into communication with students. Here’s an example ...
Reflecting on past learning to discover rhythm to class chant Group discussions: supported reflection & partner work Data: Conferring notes and teacher observations Spreadsheet for actual time spent on activities Spreadsheet for lesson notes Data Tables Mrs. B’s Class Ms S’s Class Peer suggestion:...
They can see what they are getting, and the visual works may have attained a measurable level of interest with the audience.” Proser is not the first screenwriter to make this observation about graphic novels and comics. As Millard notes, “Screenwriter Jim Taylor (Election [1999] and ...
[33]. Even though computer-vision-based methods follow objective criteria, they have long been not practiced for the assessment process due to complex algorithms and constrained computational machines. These methods work similarly to the teacher’s observation during the lecture without interrupting ...
A last observation in the results of this study is that the beginning teams clearly expressed that they learned a great deal from each other during the interviews. In this manner, team teaching is identified by teachers as a professional development strategy [12,13]. The teams mentioned that ...
During data collection, after each day of observation, an initial interpretation of the data was already performed while transcribing the field notes into the observation memos. I again reflected upon these interpretations when preparing for the expert rounds from which I received further insights and...
This study explored teachers’ autonomy-supportive and controlling behaviors through video-taped observation in the classroom. Four lessons by two teachers from a secondary school in Finland were videotaped and analyzed using a rigorous coding protocol.
Versions Notes Abstract This study explored teachers’ autonomy-supportive and controlling behaviors through video-taped observation in the classroom. Four lessons by two teachers from a secondary school in Finland were videotaped and analyzed using a rigorous coding protocol. It was found that teachers...