scholarly journals Teacher Video Coaching, From Design Features to Student Impacts: A Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 003465432110469
Author(s):  
Sara van der Linden ◽  
Jan van der Meij ◽  
Susan McKenney

Video and coaching as vehicles for teachers’ professional development have both received much attention in educational research. The combination of the two, video coaching, where teachers watch and discuss videos of their own practice with a coach, seems especially promising, but there is limited insight into how the design leads to desired teacher and student outcomes through mediating enactment processes. This review systematically synthesized the occurrences and co-occurrences of video coaching design features, enactment processes, teacher outcomes, and student impacts as reported in 59 empirical studies. The literature corpus contained information on design features for all studies, but the video coaching enactment processes were described in only half of the studies. Altogether, the studies showed that video coaching can support some positive teacher outcomes, such as changes in pedagogical behavior, but evidence was not consistently reported for all types of outcomes. Few studies examined impacts on learners. Taken together, this review revealed important gaps in knowledge, which highlights the importance of paying attention to unpacking teacher learning processes.

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2 Jul-Oct) ◽  
pp. 115-140
Author(s):  
Juana María Sancho-Gil ◽  
José Miguel Correa-Gorospe

En este artículo, desde la perspectiva de los nuevos materialismos y empirismos, nos acercamos a algunas formas, modos, momentos y lugares de aprender de docentes de infantil, primaria y secundaria. Lo hacemos, no solo centrándonos en las interacciones con sus contextos, sino desde la noción de las "intra-acciones" para ir más allá de la metafísica del individualismo que subyace a las interpretaciones convencionales de las "interacciones”. Esto nos permite sobrepasar la separación que tiende a realizar la investigación lógico-positivista entre las personas y los objetos del mundo que les rodea, en este caso los contextos de aprendizaje de los docentes, al considerar que están interconectados antes de que la mirada del investigador los separe. Las cartografías de aprendizaje y las narraciones realizadas por los docentes que participaron en la investigación y las conversaciones mantenidas con ellos, nos han permitido identificar las intra-acciones de los espacios, tiempos, condiciones, expectativas, recursos, artefactos, etc., en sus procesos del aprender. Esto nos ha permitido vislumbrar la constitución mutua de organismos enredados y los difuminados límites entre los cuerpos y objetos, considerándolos fenómenos materiales discursivos. Desde una mirada post-cualitativa, situamos este análisis desde la teoría y lo que ésta permite pensar para que, más que ‘obtener resultados’, podamos contribuir a comprender el aprendizaje de los docentes y sus implicaciones para la práctica y la formación inicial y permanente. El artículo finaliza planteando la implicaciones y desafíos de este estudio en la forma de entender el aprender y en la formación del profesorado. This article aimed to approach some forms, modes, moments and places of learning of infant, primary and secondary teachers from the perspective of new materialism and empiricism. We did this, not only by focusing on interactions with their contexts, but also from the notion of "intra-actions" since our purpose was to go beyond the metaphysics of individualism which underlies conventional interpretations of "interactions". This allowed us to overcome the separation that logical-positivist research tends to make between people and objects. This article, therefore, considered that in teacher learning contexts teachers and objects are interconnected before the researcher's gaze separated them. The learning cartographies and narrations provided by the teachers who participated in the research and the conversations held with them allowed us to identify in their learning processes the intra-actions of spaces, times, conditions, expectations, resources, artefacts, etc. This enabled us to glimpse the mutual constitution of entangled organisms and the blurred boundaries between bodies and objects, considering them as discursive material phenomena. From a post-qualitative perspective, we situated this analysis from what the theory allowed us to think so that, rather than 'obtaining results', we contributed to understanding teacher learning and its implications for practice and initial and ongoing training. The article ended by posing implications and challenges regarding the usual understanding of both learning and pre-service and in-service teachers’ professional development.


Author(s):  
Hongmei Han ◽  
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Jinghua Wang

This study explores the impact of teacher learning community on EFL teachers’ professional development. The participants are 17 EFL teachers from Hebei University in China. A year-long study was conducted on these teachers' group leaning activities through participatory observation and in-depth interviews. The preliminary results are as follows: 1) Generally speaking, through conversation, interaction and online peer evaluation in learning community, participant teachers have improved professionally in terms of critical thinking, academic writing, reflective thinking and research awareness; 2) In learning activities of the community, the experienced teachers focused more on the construction of knowledge regarding research methodology, through interaction with others and participation in teaching-based research activities, to reconstruct their knowledge about teaching and research; while the novice teachers placed more emphasis on the reconstruction of knowledge regarding pedagogical theories and the way these theories are applied in teaching practice, through social interaction with other teachers.


2020 ◽  

This edited book offers an updated insight into a number of key elements of educational leadership and teachers’ professional development topics.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Caddle ◽  
Alfredo Bautista ◽  
Bárbara M. Brizuela ◽  
Sheree T. Sharpe

While there is widespread agreement that one-size-fits-all professional development (PD) initiatives have limited potential to foster teacher learning, much existing PD is still designed without attention to teachers’ motivations and needs. This paper shows that the strengths and weaknesses of middle school mathematics teachers that engage in PD may significantly vary. We present three representative cases that illustrate this diversity. The cases were selected from a cohort of 54 grades 5-9 mathematics teachers in the northeastern United States. The results show that: 1) these three teachers dramatically differed in their motivations and self-perceived needs regarding mathematical content, classroom instruction, and student thinking; 2) their perceptions were closely aligned with the results of our own assessments; and 3) the motivations and needs of these three teachers reflected the general trends identified in the cohort of 54 teachers. We conclude that “giving teachers voice” is essential when designing and implementing PD.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-81
Author(s):  
Lenandlar Singh

AbstractThe paper presents a systematic literature review of empirical studies on the use of Twitter by higher education academics for professional development. Using content and thematic analyses, this review addressed four research questions related to study characteristics, theoretical and methodological approaches, and the type of professional development activities engaged. The results show that Twitter has been studied from several perspectives using various methodological approaches. The review revealed several limitations, including the paucity of research addressing gender, cultural and geographic differences. Limited use of theory is also observed. Five themes emerged identifying the ways Twitter was used for professional development: 1) academic backchannel, 2) networking, 3) information and resource sharing, 4) keeping updated, 5) public engagement and social commentary. Overall, the literature review suggests Twitter supports some aspects of professional development. However, several issues remain outstanding and in need of further research, including ethical approaches and practices of researchers related to data collection and use.


2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria do Ceu Taveira ◽  
Íris Martins Oliveira ◽  
Alexandra Mendes Araújo

ABSTRACT Previous efforts to elaborate an organizing framework for the study of children's career development identified its main dimensions and processes. However, the existing literature on children's ecological subsystems is scarce. This article presents a literature review of the context of children's career development. Based on Bronfenbrenner's theory, 36 eligible articles covered the following subjects: the microsystems family and school; the mesosystems family-school/peer-school relations and antecedents of transitions; the exosystems parents' work situation, social class, curriculum and teachers' professional development; the macrosystems ethnicity and culture; and the chronosystems passage of time over the life-course and across generations. An ecological perspective can be included in an organizing framework of children's careers and support further research and intervention. Empirical and practical implications are discussed.


Author(s):  
Jeffrey Choppin ◽  
Julie M. Amador ◽  
Cynthia Callard ◽  
Cynthia Carson ◽  
Ryan Gillespie

In this chapter, the authors present the design rationale for and empirical results from a predominantly synchronous three-part online model for the professional development of mathematics teachers in rural contexts. They describe how the design of the components are complementary and are intended to support teachers to develop challenging instructional practices, even when the teachers are geographically remote and dispersed. The three parts include an online course, online video coaching, and online demonstration lessons. They describe how they used conjecture mapping to enhance collaboration within the project team and to inform iterations of the model. They then present empirical results related to each of the components of the model and draw conclusions based upon what they have learned.


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