Quality of Professional Practice

In a recent Harvard Education Letter interview, Robert Pianta, Dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, discusses the value of the Classroom Assessing Scoring system, a classroom observation instrument known as CLASS. CLASS can be an important part of professional development efforts to create high quality learning experiences for children in PreK-3rd programs by providing a common metric for documenting what goes on in classrooms from grade to grade.

The creators of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) recently released a Policy Brief, Effective Teacher-Student Interactions.

In the May/June 2009 issue of the Harvard Education Letter, David McKay Wilson identifies key principles for PreK-3rd in Developmentally Appropriate Practice in the Age of Testing.