Observation Skills for Effective Teaching

by Gary D. Borich

The sixth edition of Observation Skills for Effective Teaching focuses on observing others and incorporating the right tools, knowledge, and skills into your own practice — key principal means by which you can become an effective and professional teacher. Using this text, you will learn to observe in the following eight learning climate, classroom management, lesson clarity, instructional variety, task orientation, student engagement, student success, and higher thought processes. These eight areas have been found by researchers to be related to desirable cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes in learners. This book will also teach you how to decide what to observe, how to effectively and efficiently observe in the classroom, and how to apply what you have learned through observation to grow as a reflective teacher. In addition, the book provides methodological concepts, observation instruments, and dialogues designed to help you see and practice research-based patterns of effective teaching.

Genres: Education

416 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 1993

Reviews

[Eggtown · Rating 3 out of 5]

May not be the most inspiring read on how to observe other teachers and incorporate their best practices. That said, this book is filled to the brim with useful and practical teaching strategies that are validated by research. Especially effective are the example scenarios of teaching given in the book that are then analyzed to see what went wrong or what went well. I would only recommend this book to professional people already working in the field of education.