An Introduction to Classroom Observation

✍ Scribed by Ted Wragg

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 166
• Series: Routledge Education Classic Edition
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How does classroom observation support your professional development?

How can you observe as effectively as possible?

Highly regarded as one of the most widely used and authoritative texts on this topic, An Introduction to Classroom Observation is an essential text for anyone serious about becoming a good teacher or researcher in education.

Now part of the Routledge Education Classic Edition Series, E.C. Wragg’s straightforward guide includes a combination of case studies, photographs and illustrations to show how various people study lessons for different purposes and in different contexts. It outlines a range of approaches in clear language and gives examples of successful methods that have been employed by teachers, student teachers, researchers and pupils.

With a new preface from Professor Richard Pring, the classic edition of this indispensible text is for a new generation of education professionals serious about becoming good teachers and researchers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
An Introduction to Classroom Observation
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Preface to the classic edition: Richard Pring
1.
An introduction to classroom observation
2.
The use of quantitative methods
3.
The use of qualitative methods
4.
Classroom observation in context
5.
Research into classrooms
6.
Observation and action
References
Index