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Analyzing A Classroom Instruction Video

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The purpose of analyzing a classroom instruction video is to be able to reflect upon your instruction to see if you need to adjust strategies or keep things the way they are, in other words, what is working and what is not working. In addition, to get to know your students better and how they interact with each other, you can consider other strategies, to analyze your wording, your flow. Is it clear? Could it be said more concisely? Do I have any speech patterns/habits that might make my meaning less comprehensible, Helps students self-monitor their understanding? It is a good idea to have children analyze classroom videos because they get the opportunity to understand their thinking well at the same time seeing what great progress they …show more content…

I did this so I could get a better handle on how the conversation flowed, if there were long pauses, and if the students seemed confused during the conversations. From here I began to mark the paper with a T or an S so that I could easily point out how many times the teacher and student took turns speaking. This gave me a baseline to begin analyzing the flow of the conversation. I referred back to my lesson 11 power point notes to connect the information I found in the video to what I have learned. While browsing through the power point slides I came across a term that correctly fit the pattern that I found in the transcript. The word was talk management, preferably IRF that stands for initiation-response feedback. This is when the teacher talks, then the student, and then the teacher responds to the answer and gives feedback. This is used in most classrooms and usually leaves no room for student to express views (Lightbown & Spada (2006). Once I figured out one form of communication I dug deeper and analyzed how the teacher was posing her questions during these discussions. I soon realized that the pattern of questions were developed in a display and opened manner. A display question is when “teachers ask questions that they know the answers to so that learners can display their knowledge of the language (or lack of it)” (Kumaravadivelu, B. (2003) Beyond Methods) an open question cannot be answered with a simple yes or no question. It is a type of

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