Strengthen teaching and inspire learning
Great teaching leads to great learning—even experienced educators benefit from fresh insights. Our Instructional Practices Program provides a structured, supportive process to help teachers refine their practice, boost student participation, and create more effective learning environments.
Through formative classroom observations, leader surveys, and focus groups, we assess what works and where to improve. We provide clear, actionable strategies tailored to each teacher’s strengths and needs.
Achieve effective instruction with high quality learning environments
Cognia researchers studied the elements of effective teaching practices and found five key dimensions that promote learner-centric classrooms:
- Culture and climate
- Learning
- Essentials
- Agency
- Relationship
Partner with Cognia experts to leverage your data for insight into these key dimensions.
Empowering teachers through insightful observation
The Cognia Teacher Observation Tool delivers research-based, formative feedback on five key dimensions of instruction, helping educators improve practices and foster learner-centric, effective teaching environments.
Five steps to success
Teachers are key to student success. We work collaboratively with school leaders to identify ways to enhance teaching practices, empowering educators to drive student growth.
Explore the Teacher Observation Tool
You no longer need complicated observation protocols to help teachers grow. Our research-based Teacher Observation Tool can be used in both face-to-face and virtual settings to generate information that helps teachers understand their instructional practices and foster professional development.
Observe and rate teacher behaviors across five research-based dimensions that generate valuable improvement data, emphasize learner-centric instruction, and stimulate collaborative dialogue.
1. Culture and Climate
2. Learning
3. Essentials
4. Agency
5. Relationships
Rate multiple items in each dimension to create a data-driven picture of classroom behavior.
Observers use a scoring rubric that embodies three different factors to consider when rating each item:
1. Implementation of Practices
2. Authenticity of Practices
3. Effect on Learners
Administrators and teachers have access to data-driven feedback that can be used to guide teacher skills and improvements in the classroom. Review feedback summarized by dimension. Filter reports by date, instructor, grade levels, and more.
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