Share What Works

How can teachers use video to learn from each other?

I want our children to have great teachers, and teachers interacting with another teacher can really see and focus on those things that worked and those things that worked have to work with students that have a lot of differences, it's very complex. So if many teachers can share with each other there's going to be an opportunity for those teachers to really hear about things that worked. And that means they have an opportunity to test those things with their own students.

One of our experiences in our program education and well-being. Was taking the Met videos from the extension portion of the study and applying takes, as we called them. So that meant that someone could look for something in particular and find a video or inside the video look to find segments where teaching practices or kinds of instructional content occur. That whole process made use of tools that are out there. Put them onto videos. And when people look at those videos the labels make a lot of sense but it's not really a framework right now. And because video now can be dispersed. There is this possibility that. Something like those met tags can. Help us use common words see something and say aha that's what it is.

I think teachers are loving to find ways that tools become accessible. And I'm thinking a lot of Internet based tools so that a teacher can interact with another teacher and find ways to share. And that sharing might be about kind of reflecting on teaching practice the sharing might be about ways to develop lessons that can be used in my classroom. I'll share my classroom materials and you'll share your classroom materials. And so they're just kind of building networks of teachers working with one another. That's been very exciting to watch happen over time.