Do Principals Know Good Teaching When They See It?
Melinda Burns:
Most principals can't identify or explain what constitutes good teaching, much less help teachers improve, according to a new book.
It's happened hundreds of times. An audience of principals, superintendents and instructional coaches is shown a short videotape of a classroom lesson and asked to score it from 1 to 5. It would seem straightforward: The teacher is good, bad or somewhere in-between. But invariably, the scores come in all over the map, with high and low in fairly equal numbers.
Having toured the United States with those videotapes, two leaders of the University of Washington's Center for Educational Leadership conclude that most school leaders can't identify or explain what constitutes good teaching, much less come up with helpful suggestions for improvement.
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Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 4, 2011 3:11 AM
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