Student achievement should not be guided only by listening and sitting but should be driven by being an active participant The curiosity of students is the best way to learn willingly Teachers can honestly speak about how they are learning something new to help students understand that even teachers make mistakes Pedro Noguera is the…
Students must be taught engagement expectations across learning environments and formats to drive their own learning. Distance learning students should understand what engagement looks like and taught how to monitor levels through critical thinking questions. Giving parents a role in student engagement to ask probing questions allows students to remain aware of their engagement while…
In this article from Langauge Magazine, Adam Geller, founder and CEO of Edthena, details how video coaching can provide English learner educators with the specific feedback that they need. “Good teaching requires school leaders and instructional coaches to get direct and deep insight into exactly what teaching is looking like right now.” This is why…
Sharing videos inside Edthena is safe and secure. Even so, sometimes there are reasons that student information should not be visible, and teachers need to blur part of a video. The rise of Zoom-style teaching has increased the need for this video blurring: student names now appear clearly on the recordings of video conferences. Today we’re…
Western Colorado University educators, Caroline Forrest and Cori Woytek will be presenting at the AACTE 2021 Annual Conference about how their program uses video to provide meaningful feedback for their resident teachers. In this article, they discuss how their residency program has successfully used video observation across diverse settings. This is the first article in…