Collecting Teacher Observation Data: Mentoring and Beginning Teachers

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Collecting Teacher Observation DataMentoring
and Beginning Teachers

• How is mentoring affecting teaching practice?
• Data Collection Decisions
• What to observe
• Lessons or curriculum units (how many?) focus on
  teacher and/or students
• When to observe
• Once, beginning-end of year, regular intervals
• How to observe
• Planned or spontaneous observations
• Real time or film
• One or two cameras, microphone placements
• Field notes, artifacts

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Analyzing Teacher Observation Data Mentoring
and Beginning Teachers

• Measurement and Analysis Decisions
• What to measure
• Teacher behaviors
• Teaching strategies
• Lesson structures
• Teacher-student interactions
• How to measure
• Existing instrument is it valid and reliable?
• New instrument is it valid and reliable?
• How to analyze
• Video/transcription software

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Measuring Teacher Effectiveness An Alternative
approach

• Summary
• Through value-added analysis identify teachers
  with various levels of effectiveness
• Film sample of teachers in similar settings
• Have experts view thin slice lesson clips and
  make judgments
• Debrief experts
• Determine basis for successful judgments
• Construct and test new measure based on these
  elements