NEW ORLEANS —A little boy with a plastic dinosaur toddles over to his teacher at Clara's Little Lambs Preschool Academy, in the Algiers neighborhood on the west bank of the Mississippi. “Oooooh!

I’m hoping to draw on the collective wisdom of my wise and worldly readers, especially those who teach or have taught. What’s the most useful feedback you ever received after a class observation? I’m ...

Even more than the ability to present concepts or assess students, the best predictor of a new teacher’s effectiveness and likelihood to stay in the classroom is how quickly they learn to manage class ...

Elementary school teachers often play a special role in their students’ lives, wiping away their kindergarteners’ tears when they’re missing their parents or supporting their fourth graders through a ...

The history and utility of category observation instruments developed for analyzing classroom behaviors of teachers and learners are briefly traced. Category observation instruments are defined and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract With an example of OScAR 5V records from four seventh-grade classrooms, the article illustrates the simple, but often forgotten, fact that ...