How can a reviewer make valid judgments on teaching and learning based on one observation?
The review process asks the teacher to explain the context of the lesson for the reviewers’ benefit and assumes that the reviewer has more than sufficient knowledge to make some judgments about appropriate pedagogy, science content, and the working relationship between teacher and students. Nevertheless, as all teachers know, one lesson never offers a teacher sufficient opportunities to showcase their entire repertoire of skills, a fact of which the reviewers are well aware. The conclusions of the final report also take into account data found through the other eight processes.
