It’s about time to slide into summer, and these articles can help you prevent the PD summer slide. Sometimes, fewer coaching touchpoints can be effective More coaching isn’t necessarily a good thing, according to researchers Matthew Kraft and David Blazar. Surprisingly, we find little evidence that coaching “dosage”—that is, the number of times teachers and…
Language Magazine included Evidence of Practice book in its June “Resources” section. Video observation and feedback can accelerate teacher growth when used as part of a comprehensive professional development plan. Evidence of Practice: Playbook for Video-Powered Professional Learning helps educators across all disciplines create and implement a plan to reap the benefits of video…
The most common type of analysis of classroom video mostly involves analysis of one’s own teaching. But the Rossier School of Education at University of Southern California is taking a different approach and building teacher candidates’ skills to analyze classroom video before many have stepped foot in a classroom. John Pascarella, chair of the Master of…
Here’s a few of the articles we’ve been sharing this month focused on teacher professional development and professional learning. From a teacher: The benefits of reflecting on your own practice with video A teacher from Australia details what she learned from watching video of her classroom teaching. Unlike Edthena’s more private model of sharing, she…
Supporting teachers in rural areas is one of the many benefits of using video as a professional development tool. From the Bering Strait area of Alaska to Indian reservations in Colorado, video reflection is a tool growing in popularity. This innovation is not only happening in the United States. In collaboration with Learning Forward India,…