VIDEO ANALYSIS
San Jose State University
Multiple Subject Credential Program
Guidelines for Assessing Your Videotaped Lesson
Plan and implement a reading/language arts lesson that focuses on English learners. Attach lesson plan to this assessment.
- Identify three students in regard to English language development: one student for whom English is a first language and two students who are at differing levels of English learning. Collect their work samples from this lesson.
Name: ______________________________ ____ Date/Time of Lesson: ____________
School: ____________________________________________ Grade: ____________
Lesson Title: _____________________________________________________________
View your videotape at least two times, by yourself or with a teacher, peer or colleague, and respond to as many of the following as possible:
- What are your overall impressions of yourself as you watch the videotape?
- The first time you watch the tape, focus on your behaviors as a teacher:
- What do you note about your movements, voice, wait time, clarity of directions, questioning strategies, or other behaviors?
- How did you interact with your students?
- How did you handle surprises or unexpected events?
- What management strategies could be different?
- What was done well?
- How did you support English learners?
- Watch the tape a second time and focus on your students and classroom organization:
- What does their body language indicate?
- How did their activity level change during the lesson?
- Which students responded to questions or directions? How did English learners respond?
- What responses indicated critical or higher order thinking?
- What non-verbal behaviors or activities provide evidence of learning or skill level?
- How do students interact with each other when in groups? When functioning as a whole class?
- How did they react to surprises or unexpected events?
- What specific insights did you gain about English learners?
- How do you organize the classroom to support English learners?
- Focus on work samples from the three students:
- What did they already know?
- What are their skills/understandings gained in this lesson?
- What are the next steps?
Submit this assessment with lesson plan, work samples and videotape.
