the conduit

Hi Stacy,
Thanks for your comments–I too have been coaching teachers using video. It sounds like the coaching sessions after the teacher viewed the video were very powerful. Thanks for sharing the notes on how you facilitated these meetings–I will try to follow your lead in some of my follow up sessions.

My video experience has been a little different. I have been recording 5 minute snippits of a class and then downloading the video to the teacher’s classroom computer immediately. I follow up with a Google form with the following questions:

1. What elements of your teaching were you most interested in observing in the video?

2. What comments do you have about your teaching regarding the elements you checked in Question 1?

3. What elements of your teaching were you pleased with? Why?

4. What elements of your teaching were you surprised by? Why?

5. What other elements of your teaching would you like to focus on as a result of watching the video?

6. How do you think viewing yourself teaching helps you as a teacher?

When teachers fill in the form, it automatically goes into a spreadsheet. I have collected about 7 of these so far, but as it grows, I expect to observe trends that will help provide focus for professional development and training.

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