It's portfolio - based; it takes hours and hours to complete; and it combines
video of teacher candidates delivering actual lessons, teacher lesson plans, student work, and candidate reflections.
Not exact matches
For the master's
candidates who will soon be serving as reading specialists in schools around the nation, Mason said the
video exercise demonstrates the importance for
teachers of focusing on the learners in the classroom first.
New York requires
teacher candidates to pass a total
of four tests to become certified, including the notoriously time - consuming edTPA exam, which requires
teacher candidates to submit lesson plans,
video clips and student work samples from their student - teaching experiences and written commentaries on their instructional practices.
Merritt is so pleased with how much
candidates learn from the
video process that he wants his veteran
teachers to
video record and review their instruction as part
of professional development.
The
teacher performance assessment requires
candidates to compile a portfolio that consists
of lesson plans, student work samples, a
video, and an instructional commentary.
Two groups
of teacher candidates with comparable prior experience participated in semester - long field assignments during which they
video - recorded their instruction four times and wrote four reflections.
Nagro's study, which also is published in the current issue
of Teacher Education and Special Education, investigated the effects of offering guidance and feedback to special education teacher candidates as part of their reflection and video - analysis acti
Teacher Education and Special Education, investigated the effects
of offering guidance and feedback to special education
teacher candidates as part of their reflection and video - analysis acti
teacher candidates as part
of their reflection and
video - analysis activities.
The first part is a portfolio that includes lesson plans, instructional materials, student work, two 20 - minute
videos of the
candidate working with students in classrooms,
teachers» written reflections on the two taped lessons, and evidence
of work with parents and peers.
What impact does the process
of learning how to create digital
video stories have on
teacher candidates who are facilitating a shared process between middle school student learners and their VIPs?
AACTE will honor Sarah A. Nagro, assistant professor
of special education in the College
of Education and Human Development at George Mason University (VA), with the 2017 AACTE Outstanding Dissertation Award for her study The Effects
of Guided
Video Analysis on
Teacher Candidates» Reflective Ability and Instructional Skills.
After completing the first methods class, before
teacher candidates entered any classrooms other than through the cyber-conferencing experience, 90 %
of the respondents said they employed the following technology - enhanced methods in their lessons: word processing; rhetorical, digital text analysis; digital commentary; Internet research; found and concrete poem creation generated through digital sources; image collage to analyze text; online chat; discussion boards; PowerPoint presentation; word processing and graphic organizers to facilitate multistage writing workshop; email; and multimedia projects using digital camera and
video for some type
of analysis.
Teacher candidates preparing for edTPA must document their classroom work by submitting a portfolio that includes lesson plans for three to five connected days
of instruction, student assignments, assessments, unedited
video clips
of their own teaching, and commentaries on student learning and how the
candidate adjusted instruction to meet student needs.
Future submissions that take advantage
of this option will allow
teacher candidates to compare the results
of more traditional assignments with students» audio /
video compositions (and
teachers» recorded feedback).
Teacher candidates are well served by embracing
video as a means
of both proving and improving their classroom teaching.
Especially with the growing use
of video in
teacher candidate assessment, we expect that classroom
video recordings
of intern and student
teachers will be increasingly available.
For example, in an exploratory mixed - methods, multicase study using digital
video, Calandra, Gurvitch, and Lund (2008) analyzed the digital
video vignettes
of seven
teacher candidates.
Additionally, students at Arizona State must prove classroom mastery through a series
of performance - based assessments developed by the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, or NIET.44 During these assessments, a mentor
teacher observes and records a
teacher candidate; both the mentor
teacher and the
teacher candidate then use the
video and student work to analyze the lesson together.45 The partnership between the university, participating schools, and the nonprofit NIET has created the opportunity to integrate effective teaching practices into practicum and coursework.46
Now, an online website like the Carnegie Foundation's Gallery
of Teaching and Learning (http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/resources/gallery-teaching) can allow a
teacher candidate in Michigan to examine assignments,
teacher interviews, and
video clips from classrooms in California or Florida.
This
video, produced May - June 2014, captures perspectives
of the TeachOregon program after the first year
of implementation It focuses on the experiences and opinions about the innovative practice
of partnering college educators from teaching programs, established K12
teachers, and
teacher students (also called «
teacher candidates») to create an intensive
teacher preparation program.
Showing, Not Telling: Using
Video Records
of Practice to Support Preservice English
Teachers» Enactments This session addressed results from a qualitative study
of one higher - impact English
teacher working in a minority urban public school and how to help
candidates develop similar instructional practices.
Given the reported benefits among elementary
teacher candidates as well as elementary students, we decided to explore the potential for digital
video editing as a tool for supporting creative thinking and expression
of science concepts.
The purpose
of the science movie assignment was to provide elementary
teacher candidates with an opportunity to express their understanding
of a science topic
of their choice using
video editing software as a tool to develop the finished product.
Marie is a mother, artist,
teacher, education activist, former NJ State Legislature
candidate and is «that»
teacher in the infamous Chris Christie You - Tube
video of the thug bashing
teachers.
The
video series
Candidate to
Candidate: Reflections on Taking edTPA shows
teacher candidates discussing the challenges
of edTPA, sharing advice and major takeaways they learned from the program, and offering many other valuable insights on teaching and
teacher preparation.
While many
teacher recruits like aspects
of the test, for which they have to submit a portfolio that includes lesson plans, student assessments and
videos of their teaching, they aren't totally sold, according to a new study that surveyed teaching
candidates in two states, Washington and New York.