Suzanne Arnold of University of Colorado Denver shares best practices for making video a meaningful part of a coaching and development cycle for teachers. She utilizes video coaching increase the amount of support and supervision to beginning teachers who are placed across the state of Colorado. Edthena helps power her video coaching process.

1. Five Best Practices for
Leveraging Video

2. Suzanne Arnold
Assistant Clinical Professor

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Use video as a diagnostic
● Set a baseline for each of your
teachers’ skill level at the
beginning of the school year
● Analyze classroom video to
identify a personalized set of
target skills for the year
● Define a growth plan that is
developmentally appropriate for
each teacher

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Share support among coaches
● Enable multiple coaches to offer
feedback on the same video to
increase value to teacher
● Increase effectiveness of coaching
skills through “second opinion”
viewing and commenting on
videos by additional coaches
● Calibrate expectations through
shared viewing of teacher video
and collegial discussion

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Seek evidence of transferring
curriculum to practice
● Use video as a lens to see your
students put the program’s
curriculum into practice
● Build a library of videos
highlighting students from the
program who exhibit a wide range
of skill level
● Incorporate video models into
curriculum to serve as examples
and nonexamples of pedagogical
expectations

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Give timely feedback
● Increase the relevance of self-reflection
and coaching through
time condensed cycles which
encourage dialogue
● Expect for teachers to upload
classroom video within 24 hours of
capture (better if same-day)
● Require instructors to provide
feedback within 48 hours of a
video being uploaded

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Let video drive the cycle
● Make video a key source of
evidence within a support cycle
rather than an add-on to an
existing process
● Engage the teachers, coaches, and
peers in conversation that
examines both teacher and
student actions
● Define next steps and strategies in
a way that can be documented via
video for the next reflection and
support cycle

8. Record
classroom
teaching
Planning and
implementation
of feedback
Coach
provides
comments
Teacher digests
and responds to
comments
Share video
and complete
pre-cycle form
Complete
post-cycle
reflection
Reflection and
Support Cycle

9. http://www.edthena.com
info@edthena.com
855-EDTHENA
Suzanne Arnold
suzanne.arnold@ucdenver.edu
303-315-492
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