The Stallings method is a kind of education system where observers do a 15-second scan of the classroom and then code exactly what they see. Learn how this yielded results in Latin America and the Caribbean: http://wrld.bg/DJYG30hAeX7
What 15 seconds can tell you about a classroom
The first time a World Bank education team tried classroom observations in Brazil, it nearly provoked a state-wide teachers’ strike. It was October 2009 in the Northeast state of Pernambuco and two members of the team, Barbara Bruns and Madalena Dos Santos, had handed out stopwatches to school sup…
