‘Instructional rounds’ approach flips classroom evaluations

As school leaders work to improve classroom teaching, a new way of evaluating instruction–one that shifts the focus from the teacher to the students–is emerging.

Called "instructional rounds," the practice is based on the way doctors make their rounds in a teaching hospital, using facts rather than value judgments to determine the effectiveness of instruction.

Because it looks at how well kids are learning rather than how well the teacher is teaching, and because it includes fellow teachers on the evaluation team, this collaborative approach to classroom evaluation is less likely to meet with objections from educators, its advocates say.

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