Video Analysis as a Reflective Tool: Providing Pre-Service Teachers a Gradual-Replay Lens on their Developing Practice

Background

Teaching is arguably the most “human” of all professions. As such, it is riddled with the inevitable complexities that underlie human interactions and human growth. Because of this, mentoring and supervision of pre-service teachers has offered an invigorating challenge to teacher educators since public schooling became a governmental requirement in America close to a century ago. Teacher educator considerations include (but are not limited to): 1) the great range of natural abilities within the pre-service teacher ranks; 2) the array of areas and topics that perspective teachers need to know about and be able to teach; 3) the theory-to-practice debate . . . how much of a theoretical base is necessary and how do we (teacher educators) balance theory and practice? 4) the wide array of student needs that pre-service teachers will be required to accommodate and address. Needless to say, these are only the first round of considerations.