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Professional Visits

We welcome visits to the Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School by educators and researchers from schools and universities around the world. Presentations, tours and in-class observations can be arranged. Please contact the director to begin to plan a professional visit to the school.

 

Policies for Visitors:

  • All visits must be pre-arranged with the School Director.
  • Visitors to Falk School must register at the reception desk upon arrival and wear a visitor pass for the duration of each visit.
  • There is a limit of three observers in a classroom at any one time.
  • Please allow classroom programs to continue as you observe.
  • Master teachers are able to answer questions either during a break in teaching or at a pre-arranged discussion time after class.
  • Your observations are confidential. Please do not discuss them in any of the public areas of the school. 
  • Arrangements for photographing children or classrooms must be made through the School Director in advance of your arrival.

Research at the Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School

Since the 1930’s, the Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School has been a center of education and research focused on the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of children and the training of pre-service teachers.

As the laboratory school for the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh, Falk serves as a site for research that is carried out by faculty and academic staff from the SOE, the Learning Research and Development Center, and other departments from within the university.  Researchers from other academic institutions and the Falk faculty also conduct studies at the school.

Research projects approved by the Falk Research Committee to be conducted at the lab school are ones that address issues pertaining to the development and health of children ages 5-14 years.   Projects have also been approved that relate to the pedagogical development of teachers and the improvement of teacher training.

Falk School hosts two to four studies per year. Protocols and additional information are available in the Procedures for Research and Researchers page of our website.  The scope of research projects can be seen in the set of current and recent projects summarized in the Recent Research Projects page of our website.

Additional Resources for Researchers and Educators