It described a "madrassa curriculum" in PHSE (personal, social, health and economic) lessons and "posters written in Quranic Arabic in most of the classrooms visited".
However, the case study team did not observe organized use of the materials in any of the classrooms visited.
Evaluations typically consist of one or two short classroom visits.
Bush brought his mother in for classroom visits and dropped by unannounced to make sure that things were running smoothly.
A team sorts through years of test data and also looks at reports of routine classroom visits made by Education Department experts.
Annual trips to the New York Philharmonic and classroom visits by musicians were part of the program as well, but they supplemented the curriculum.
Washington's new teacher evaluation system, which combines calculations of student academic growth with classroom visits by teams of evaluators, is now in place across the Washington schools, which educate less than 50,000 students.
Traditional teacher evaluations often consist of cursory classroom visits by principals who declare nearly every teacher good, or at least competent, even in failing schools where few if any children meet basic educational standards.
In a recent speech, she signalled a new openness to merit pay by conceding that the system of evaluating teachers by means of classroom visits, which her union has long defended, "was never adequate".
PRINCETON, N.J. — In most American schools, teachers are evaluated by principals or other administrators who drop in for occasional classroom visits and fill out forms to rate their performance.
