Focus on Teaching: Using Video for High-Impact Instruction
Jim Knight
“Video will completely change the way we do professional learning.”
—Jim Knight
Video recordings of teachers in action offer a uniquely powerful basis for improvement. Best-selling professional development expert Jim Knight delivers a surefire method for harnessing the potential of video to reach new levels of excellence in schools.
Purchase the Book:
“This book summarizes the findings of a number of projects that directly or indirectly studied video and coaching. Used effectively, in a way that honors teachers’ professionalism and learning, video can be the most powerful improvement we have experienced in our schools in a long time. My sincere hope is that this book will enable us to use video effectively in a way that will help us provide the best possible learning opportunities for all of our students.”
– Jim Knight
Discover Video-Enhanced Professional Learning
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The Power of Video
Micro cameras are an example of “disruptive technology”
Why are micro cameras a “disruptive” innovation?
Why video is important
Accountability and autonomy
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Getting Started with Video-Enhanced Professional Development
Getting started
Guidelines for success
Setting up video-enhanced professional development: practical concerns
03
Instructional Coaches
Video-enhanced instructional coaching
Video increases trust
Video facilitates partnership coaching
Video and the components of instructional coaching
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Teachers Using Cameras to Coach Themselves
Decide where to point the camera
Film a class
First watch
Second watch
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Video Learning Teams (VLTs)
Setting up video learning teams: creating psychologically safe environments
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Principals
Video-enhanced teacher evaluation
Why video-enhanced teacher evaluation works
Fostering implementation
Make an Impact By Unlocking the Power of Video
Expand Your Learning
Explore our other resources to learn more about Instructional Coaching. We offer a variety of workshops, PDFs, informational videos and more.
Based on Jim Knight’s book Focus on Teaching, this workshop describes how video can be used to help teachers learn from video recordings of their lessons on their own, with an instructional coach, with teams, and as a part of teacher evaluation.
Insights regarding the productive use of video introduced in Jim Knight’s Focus on Teaching, combined with GCI’s expertise in how teachers can coach each other, provide an affordable way for teachers to see the benefits of coaching even if they do not have access to an instructional coach.
In this asynchronous course, Jim Knight explains different ways video can be used as rocket fuel for learning by coaches, by teachers to improve their own practice, by teams, or by principals as part of the teacher evaluation process.
These appendices contain standards, rubrics, feedback forms, self-evaluation forms, administrator forms, Impact Cycle checklist, and a candidate evaluation form intended to support the learning in the book and workshop.
Making Powerful Changes Through Video
For decades, ICG’s research has seen the proven results of using video to gain a clear picture of current reality. Like how any great sports team reviews their plays, we believe that using video is the best way to improve professional learning. We have tons of videos, webinars, podcast episodes, and more resources on our website that can help educators embrace the use of video in schools.
Read More About Instructional Coaching
How does video tie into the Seven Success Factors? View Jim Knight’s collection of books to learn about his research and how you can implement each of the seven factors for any successful coaching program.
