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Bathina, Jyothi – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
Educators visit India to spread expertise and learn a more important lesson in community. They hadn't anticipated the quiet successes in the schools and classrooms they visited, causing them nearly overnight to switch from being experts to novices. No matter the socioeconomic status of the school, most striking was the high value placed on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attitudes, School Visitation, Success
Marshall, Kim – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Why are so many educators willing to give credence to observations based on announced visits? Perhaps it's avoidance or a failure to distinguish between good teachers and good teaching, or perhaps it's the way the conventional teacher-evaluation model limits administrators' options. To put it bluntly, an evaluation process that relies on announced…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Evaluation, School Visitation
Skutch, Margaret F.; Hamlin, Wilfred G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1975
Openness and flexibility are the common denominators in these notes on the changing environment for the school's youngest clients. (Author)
Descriptors: Day Care Centers, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Design, Electronic Equipment