Bridging Classroom Practices to the Professional Development: Let us Video-Coach, Shall We?
BY Meral Guceri and Naime Meltem Bizim
Videotaping for teachers development is an excellent tool to identify strengths and weaknesses in the lesson performance. It has been found that teacher using such toll can identify easily their characteristics of teaching and they are able to receive feedback from other people including other teachers and professionals in the area.
Others can make observation and by the instructor him/herself (self-assessment) so the opportunities to study what was taped are ample, hence the possibilities to improve may increase as well in an overall level.
Videotaping also frees the teacher from anxieties and pressures and launches them into more control over their own professional development.
Through such methodology of observation, teachers become more aware and firm in many factors concerning the teaching process. Through this system, the teachers also gain more perspective on what the whole process of ongoing education is all about.
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