Today’s learners—and tomorrow’s teachers—use video throughout their everyday lives on platforms like Snapchat and Instagram. Cherry Steffen says video should be used throughout a teacher candidate’s university experience, too. As the chair of the department of education at Washburn University, she has helped formalize the use of video within the field experience for student teaching.…
Nadine Hartig has been using video with students in Radford University’s Counselor Education program for many years. For students learning the counseling process, says Nadine – who is the chairperson of the Counselor Education Department – the use of video is widely considered a best practice. In her previous use of video, however, Nadine became…
The saying goes, “Reading, writing, arithmetic.” But what about when the teachers you’re training teach subjects like business and administrative services, construction technologies, or family and consumer sciences? The alternative route teachers Jane Briggs works with through Bowling Green State University’s Workforce Education and Development program teach subjects like these. They are also new to…
As the #edTPA tweets reveal, finishing edTPA® is an important and challenging step in the process of becoming a teacher. Richard Giaquinto, Chair of the Education Department at St. Francis College in New York City, has been helping candidates through the process of compiling portfolios since New York state adopted the assessment in 2014. Richard’s…