Hello Julie, Jessica, and others

As a teacher in training I was videotaped in 1969. VHS was relatively  
new then, but it was widely used in the University of Massachusetts  
Graduate School of Education. There was a protocol called  
_Microteaching_, which had been developed by Dwight Allen at Stanford  
in the mid 1960's, before he was the Dean of Education at UMass  
Amherst. For some information on Microteaching, see:
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microteaching ]
[ http://fdc.fullerton.edu/learning/CASTL/ 
carnegie_microteaching_materials.htm ]

I remember getting three kinds of useful feedback ("feedback" was new  
jargon in education then):

1) seeing myself teach (not an entirely positive experience);
2) getting comments from other teacher trainees and a master teacher;  
and
3) getting comments from the students who were videotaped about what  
they thought I was trying to do, how effective it was, and what was  
happening from their perspectives.

Some of the comments from students were especially helpful.  I  
realized that I was reaching only about half of the class and that,  
while my (very oral) presentation style of presentation worked well  
for them, it wasn't working for the others.  That caused be to ask  
some good questions like: What other styles of teaching and learning  
are there? What do we know about the match of teacher styles of  
presentation and student styles of learning? Is it possible for a  
teacher to learn or strengthen other styles?  And so on.

I also remember that it was important to have a structured process,  
where the teaching/learning objectives were clear at the outset, and  
were a main reference point for the comments later.

Finally I remember thinking that this "slice of teaching" approach  
also had its limitations and wasn't representative of the actual ebb  
and flow of the classroom teaching process over time.

David J. Rosen
newsomeassociates.com
djrosen at comcast.net



On Jun 5, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Julie McKinney wrote:


> Hi Everyone,

>

> Welcome to our discussion with author Jessica Tomkins about her recent

> FOB article:

>

> Video as a Professional Development Tool

> http://www.ncsall.net/index.php?id=1107

>

> Please write in with any impressions, comments or questions you have

> about the article! See below for some discussion questions.

>

> Enjoy!

>

> Julie

>

> ************************************

>

> Discussion Questions

>

> 1. Have you ever seen a video of yourself teaching? If so, what was  

> your

> impression?  Did it affect your teaching? How?

>>

>> 2. What do you think you might gain from seeing yourself and your

> students on video?

>>

>> 3. How might your students benefit from you reviewing such a video?

>>

>> 4. Have you ever used video as a professional development tool in  

>> your

> program? If so, how did your group review and process the video in  

> order

> to share thoughts, give feedback and get the maximum benefit? How did

> teachers receive this?

>>

>> 5. After reading this article, what unanswered questions stay with

> you?

>

>

> Julie McKinney

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