Video becoming a key tool in teacher training, evaluation

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Meris Stansbury, Online Editor writes, "In today’s news, 360-degree cameras are capturing student interest and teacher strengths and weaknesses. Using cameras for teacher evaluation and training comes as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET)."

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As teacher training and evaluation take a front seat in the nation’s education reform agenda, a growing number of schools are integrating video into the process.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project notes that once-a-year teacher evaluations are not enough to help teachers improve, and that multiple observations by trained professionals should be combined with other methods such as student test scores and classroom surveys.

Preliminary results from the two-year study were posted in early January.
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Source: eSchool News