Five Best Practices for Leveraging Video

Suzanne ArnoldAssistant Clinical Professor

Use video as a diagnostic

● Set a baseline for each of your teachers’ skill level at the beginning of the school year

● Analyze classroom video to identify a personalized set of target skills for the year

● Define a growth plan that is developmentally appropriate for each teacher

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Share support among coaches

● Enable multiple coaches to offer feedback on the same video to increase value to teacher

● Increase effectiveness of coaching skills through “second opinion” viewing and commenting on videos by additional coaches

● Calibrate expectations through shared viewing of teacher video and collegial discussion

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Seek evidence of transferring curriculum to practice● Use video as a lens to see your

students put the program’s curriculum into practice

● Build a library of videos highlighting students from the program who exhibit a wide range of skill level

● Incorporate video models into curriculum to serve as examples and nonexamples of pedagogical expectations

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Give timely feedback

● Increase the relevance of self-reflection and coaching through time condensed cycles which encourage dialogue

● Expect for teachers to upload classroom video within 24 hours of capture (better if same-day)

● Require instructors to provide feedback within 48 hours of a video being uploaded

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● Make video a key source of evidence within a support cycle rather than an add-on to an existing process

● Engage the teachers, coaches, and peers in conversation that examines both teacher and student actions

● Define next steps and strategies in a way that can be documented via video for the next reflection and support cycle

Let video drive the cycle

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Record classroom teaching

Planning and implementation

of feedback

Coach provides

comments

Teacher digests and responds to

comments

Share video and complete pre-cycle form

Complete post-cycle reflection

Reflection and Support Cycle

Suzanne Arnoldsuzanne.arnold@ucdenver.edu303-315-492

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