Videotaping yourself teaching
For one of our assignments
in the Benedum Collaborative Program we are asked to film ourselves teaching.
This can be really informational because when reviewing the video you can see
things about your lesson that you didn’t notice while teaching. Such as maybe
student in the corner are acting up and you didn’t notice it because they were
silently playing video games or texting on their phones. Maybe whenever you
turn around to write on the board a student picks/ bullies on another student.
You can also see things
that you need to do more. I noticed that I do a lot of PowerPoint presentations
and I don’t necessarily move around the classroom a lot. This allows the
students in the back of the room to get off task while the ones in the front of
the room are the only ones paying attention. Sometimes I also tend to get
annoyed when my students are taking a while to write things down. I noticed
this and now I will try to be more patient with my students because not everyone
can write that fast and if there are people with visual problems they have a
hard time seeing the slides as it is, so it is harder to copy stuff down. (I do
read the slides out loud for the visually impaired but I also add in my own
information so it isn’t boring to the students.
Videotaping can cause some
problems as well. Sometimes students are on their best (or worst) behavior in
front of the camera and it causes the classroom to be uneasy because they are
nervous. When the classroom isn’t acting normal the way I have learned to
instruct them isn’t’ the best way to teach them. Also I become really nervous
and self-conscious while videotaping, so I am not teaching to the best of my
abilities. I guess this will improve the more I video tape myself in the
future.
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