Monday, June 24, 2013

Videotaping teachers in the classroom

As we think about Bill Gates recent commentary on video taping teachers in the classroom it's entertaining to think about the teachers that are up in arms over that process when we compare that to coaching at high school, middle school, professional or college ...whatever level, nobody would argue that using video tape helps us identify weaknesses, whether it's an overall game management strategy or actually breaking down running styles or breaking down hitting a baseball or throwing a football, shooting a basketball to how a team is moving to how a defense is set up.  All of those things we could use it for in football and look at so players understand the game better.  As we think about the time it takes and that coaches are willing to spend hours and hours breaking down film to make their teams better.  The ironic part about this is  if we look at the classrooms and think as teachers we all spend a lot of time, administrators spend a lot of time but we don't want to spend the time to break down video on our classroom when getting our kids to succeed and achieve should be more important than a football team winning or the basketball team winning games.  This becomes a very interesting argument when you step back and say if video has helped all these things  why aren't we using it in classrooms?
This is an important discussion, and as a coach, I often feel embarrassed for amount of time spent preparing for practice and games as compared to lessons.  So is video evaluations the only answer...maybe not but should it be used more in classroom than it is, I think so.
My goal is two video breakdowns a week next year and see if I can challenge my colleagues to join me.  Let's lead this instead of being told. 

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