Recent performance-based teacher assessments have challenged teacher educators to rethink the ways that candidates are prepared in education programs. edTPA (formerly the Teacher Performance Assessment) requires teacher candidates to demonstrate knowledge and skills through authentic teaching artifacts, written commentary, and video clips recorded in real classroom settings. As part of the edTPA requirements, teacher candidates submit video clips of their own teaching to be viewed and assessed by evaluators. This implies that teacher candidates should know how to utilize their own videos for the purpose of improving their instructional skills as well as the learning of their students. These initiatives have urged teacher educators to prepare their candidates for the active use of video-recorded instruction either in university classrooms or in field-based practices. This book provides research-based strategies to support video analysis of authentic teaching in initial teacher education programs. It also presents a review of video recording tools in reference to their features and practicality for different educational settings.
Carrie Eunyoung Hong, Ph.D. is associate professor in the department of Educational Leadership and Professional Studies at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Her research interests include balanced literacy, literacy teacher education, and teacher preparation to work with culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
Irene Van Riper, Ed. D. is a teacher educator, consultant, researcher and author in all levels of education from early childhood and middle school, to higher education as a professor of special education and literacy. She was instrumental in developing a graduate program in Autism education and has earned Associate level certification from the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators. Her research interests include dyslexia, executive functioning, and teacher preparation.