This Week

So, it looks like I missed my post last week. I didn't even realize until I sat down to do this one. Sorry to all those looking forward to it. I know it must have left a gaping hole in your week.

So, when it comes to the video from last week and all the different methods of classroom observation, I keep coming back to the same thought. Selective Verbatum is by far the most comprehensive method to ge tthe full picture for what is going on in a classroom. You can take that full transcript and when you examine it later you can come up with all the information you can get from all of the other methods combined, at least in large part. The only problem with it is getting everything. The video tape isn't, at least to my mind a viable choice, as it is pretty obvious and it can change behaviors, at least a little bit, but mostly it just can't visually catch everything, and it isn't designed to catch the audio as well as an audio recorder. If you can put tape recorder or an ipod on your desk you can get full audio quality and you can then focus, whilie you are in the room on visually observing what is going on and take notes on that. When you put those two things together afterward you cna create a complete picture and draw from that any information you, or the teacher, are looking for.