Video Pedagogy in Action: Critical Reflective Inquiry Using the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model

Combining video analysis with the well-known Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR) model, this book offers teacher educators a fresh perspective and a new tool for supporting teachers’ learning and reflection. The clearly articulated and useful framework shifts the focus away from children and toward teachers’ thinking about their own teaching practice. Interwoven with practical examples of the framework in use, this book identifies ways that teachers and teacher educators can foster more productive kinds of reflection about video-recorded classroom interactions and support preservice and inservice teachers. Offering key tools such as templates for reflection, video viewing guides, self-analysis checklists, and activities, this book moves the field forward and establishes video reflection and the GRR process as critical tools for teacher reflection, professional development, and effective teaching and learning.

Mary B. McVee is Professor of Literacy Education and Director of the Center for Literacy & Reading Instruction (CLaRI) at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA.

Lynn E. Shanahan is Associate Professor of Literacy Education at University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA.

H. Emily Hayden is Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at Iowa State University, Ames, USA.

Fenice B. Boyd is Professor and Chair of the Instruction and Teacher Education Department at University of South Carolina, USA.

P. David Pearson is former Dean and Professor in Language and Literacy and Human Development at the University of California Berkeley, USA.