Recently, I posted about how my school is using Facebook and Pinterest as part of our professional development. (See the whole post HERE.) I’ve decided to pass on some of the best videos and articles I come across to you each Sunday evening. Here is this week’s professional development post:
Honestly, I’m not a huge fan of Bill Gates in Education, because often I think he is just throwing money at a situation. This talk, however, I think has some merit. In this talk, he talks about teacher evaluations and changing the evaluation process by having teachers video tape and review their lessons. I have created video lessons in class with my children on Educreations, and simply watching those lessons has given me some serious feedback onto how I explain topics, manage my class, etc. I think having videos be a part of the evaluation process could be very impactful. What do you think, would you be okay with videotaping and watching some of your lessons?
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I emailed myself for National Boards. It was very interesting to watch, and a little sad too! (I got a few shots of myself I wasn't proud of size wise!) It made me really aware of what I was doing with kids. I am planning on taping my evaluation this year-so that I, too, can reflect on what I did and then saw-just for my piece of mind!
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