What is Classroom observation?

What is Classroom Observation?

• It is that moment when the teacher evaluates if the class he/she has prepared worked as planned or not at, the end of the school year to set changes.

• It is a continuous exercise which can be made several times during the school year by parents to adjust the relationship between students and teachers.

• It is an exercise of watching the environment of the teaching-learning process and the dynamic developed by all the parts involved.

• It is that moment where the several parts of an institution (school) sit together to evaluate if the curriculum has worked as planned or not based on the teaching process.

What could be one of the purposes of evaluation?

• Changing the amount of homework students receive.

• Improving the pedagogy teachers use in class.

• Changing the staff for a better and more qualified group of teachers.

• Making teachers feel bad about the results their students get..

Which of the following should the observer not take into account when observing a class?

• Managing of Time

• The use of Resources

• The use of uniform

• The ways teachers talk to students

A method which provides the observer a rate with which he/she can measure the effectiveness of a class is called...

• A quantitative method

• A qualitative method

Which of the following can be a qualitative method for observing classes?

• Checklists

• Close-ended questionnaires

• Rating scales

• Narrative descriptions