Journal Article

Integrating video analysis of teacher and student behaviors to promote Preservice teachers’ teaching meta-strategic knowledge

Michalsky Tova

2021

Overview

Teachers need to notice and interpret student behavior as part of their everyday classroom work. Current teacher education programs often do not explicitly focus on helping pre-service teachers learn to analyze and interpret student behavior and understand how it may influence teachers’ teaching behaviors, which in turn may affect students’ thinking and achievements. Using a quasi-experimental design, the current study examined a systematic reflective approach promoting dual learning from both teacher and student perspectives in authentic videotaped classrooms. More specifically, the study examined how this dual reflective “professional vision” framework influenced pre-service teachers’ actual ability to explicitly teach meta-strategic knowledge (MSK) to students. Results indicated that pre-service teachers whose video-analysis reflected on both teachers’ and students’ behaviors demonstrated greater improvement in their MSK-teaching, and their students showed better MSK achievements, compared to pre-service teachers whose video-analysis reflected only on teachers’ behaviors. The current study suggests the need to integrate systematic dual reflective professional vision approaches – that analyze not only teachers’ but also students’ behaviors – into teacher preparation programs as a means for developing pre-service teachers’ capacity to promote students’ MSK.

• Publisher: Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Preservice Teacher Education / Preservice Teachers / Quasiexperimental Design / Research Design / Student Attitudes / Student behavior / Teacher Education Programs / Teacher Improvement / Teachers / Teaching / Teaching Methods / Video Technology