Identifying Digital Video Clips of Good Pedagogic Practice

Contents

1. Why use digital video footage?
   1 It provides a window on other classrooms
   2 It enables us to review what happens in the classroom
   3 It brings a multimodal lens to the analysis of teaching and learning
   4 It encourages discussion about the criteria used to interpret and to judge
   5 It can focus attention on the importance of other forms of evidence, other kinds of knowledge
2. How to use digital video footage
   1 A little goes a long way
   2 A clear focus for the observation
   3 What don’t we know? What can’t we see?
   4 What issues does this raise for your practice?
3. Teachers TV
   1 Messy Art at KS2 provides opportunities to explore
   2 Gifted and Talented – History – Causal Reasoning: WW1
   3 Changing Teachers - Finland Comes to England – Secondary
   4 KS3/4 Drama – Engaging with a Difficult Text – Dr Faustus
4. Literacy in the primary classroom
   1 Reading for understanding and enjoyment
   2 A shared text as the stimulus for varied activities over time
   3 The power of retelling
   4 Shared close reading of text and images
   5 Reading as performance
   6 A little at a time – and time to talk
   7 Inhabiting a role, inhabiting the text
   8 Shared writing
5. The pedagogy of an experienced secondary English teacher
   1 Quick run through to get the story
   2 Quotes – speaking, knowing and owning the lines
   3 Quotes: attribution to characters
   4 Acting out the play
   5 Pairs of opposites: scanning with a purpose: revisiting the same scene with specific focus
   6 Class: speaking and reading text
   7 Viewing the RSC Macbeth
6. The pedagogy of newly-qualified English teachers
7. Do It Yourself
8. Students are doing it for themselves
9. Reference and further reading