Video Taping While Teaching

How could filming myself teach and reviewing the film help me become a better teacher?"

This is a very good question. I can only answer yes to this question because it seems like the very obvious answer. If you are teaching, you have an idea of how well your lesson went after you are done teaching that particular lesson. You may think that you did a few things wrong and/or right but after you watch yourself give that very same lesson; you might change your opinion about things. After you observe yourself teaching by videotaping; you then allow yourself to see yourself from the outsiders perspective. Or rather how everyone else sees you as a teacher. This can be very good because it will let you see little minute details that you might not otherwise see if you didn't videotape yourself teaching. Once you have evaluated yourself from the angle of the student then you can implement those things that you need to work on in your future lessons; therefore ultimately making you a better teacher for the long hall. Whoever thought about using videotaping as a teacher improvement resource was a very innovative person. I look forward to continuing to teach and evaluating my teaching and also continuing to get better!!

I Movie Reflection

After making this instructional video about a sport skill, I realized how important these videos can really be to me as both a teacher as well as a coach. I can film my players while they are doing certain sport skills and that way they can visually make themselves better by watching them perform. I can use these videos to help a brand new class learn a more difficult skill. The lessons that would be enhanced would be a ton, but specifically I would say things like learning to play games that might be a little foreign to the students; like water polo, cross country skiing, lacrosse, and/or mountain biking in the physical education classes. I really think that I can help my students understand and learn better because of the visual aspect of these videos. I am a visual learner and I know how much easier it is to learn a new skill once I have seen someone else performing that same skill. I am grateful that I learned how to use I movie. I am also glad that we have been video taping the lessons that we have been teaching lately. I now know how to convert them into I movie and burn them to a disc. This will only help me realize what I can really be doing to improve as a teacher in the classroom as well as a coach on the field.

"How to pitch a Softball" Video and URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfCgPWu87yY