Ep 230: Post Observation Conversations
New Teacher Talk takes on a part of the job that makes many early-career teachers anxious: the post-observation conference. Hosts Dr. Beth Wilkins and Dr. Anna Quinzio-Zafran welcome Dr. Amy Howerton, an English teacher and department chair at Oswego High School, and Dr. Ed Howerton, associate professor and director of graduate education at Aurora University, who together own Two Paths Educational Consulting. With decades of experience as evaluators between them, they reframe the post-observation meeting as an engine of professional growth rather than a source of dread.
Ed explains why this…
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