Book details

  • Genre:education
  • Sub-genre:Administration / General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:190
  • eBook ISBN:9781617925108

The Essential Guide to Walk-throughs using eWalk

How to raise student achievement through classroom observations and data analysis

By Paul Shuster

Overview

This book discusses the components of effective walk-throughs and the most effective ways to use them to identify opportunities for improving and measuring the effectiveness of staff development efforts. The illustrated 21 chapters detail building, conducting, and analyzing classroom observations, with a focus on changing teaching to improve student achievement.
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Description

This easy to understand, illustrated ebook describes the components of effective walk-throughs and the most effective ways to use them to identify opportunities for improving and measuring the effectiveness of staff development efforts. Whether or not a teacher’s behavior is reinforced or improved depends on how far the observed data makes it through the feedback loop. This book explains in detail how to build, conduct and analyze classroom observations as well as how eWalk® automates the process and makes it easy to derive trends and central tendencies from your completed observations.
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About The Author

Paul Shuster was a classroom teacher for 31 years, a Trainer in Adult Education for 15 years, and an Education Instruction Specialist for IBM before joining Media-X. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Manitoba, Teaching Certification from Queens University, and additional qualifications in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, the University of Waterloo and Sheridan College. As a technology evangelist. Paul spent 15 years developing administrative software for school districts and empowering them with technology in a best practice model.
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