What Does Didactics Await Like? A Novel Video Study

by Anna Pons
Analyst, Directorate for Education too Skills

Looking – literally – at how teachers to a greater extent than or less the basis instruct tin endure a game changer to improve education. The evidence is clear that teachers are what makes the greatest departure to learning, exterior students’ ain backgrounds. It is widely recognised that the lineament of an pedagogy arrangement is solely every bit expert every bit the lineament of its teachers. Yet nosotros know relatively petty close what makes a expert too effective teacher.

Our novel inquiry project, the Teaching too Learning International Survey (TALIS) Video Study, aims to assist us larn to a greater extent than close how our teachers teach. The written report aims to supply a ameliorate agreement of which teaching practices are used, how they are interrelated, too which are most strongly associated alongside students’ cognitive too non-cognitive outcomes.

The TALIS Video Study is based on a really innovative inquiry design. It uses videos to capture what goes on inwards the classroom, too every bit good surveys teachers too students, measures students’ learning gains, too looks into instructional materials to acquire every bit consummate a painting demonstrate of teaching every bit possible. The written report volition non hit a comprehensive assessment of “the terra firma of teaching”, a global assessment of teachers or a ranking of the lineament of countries’ teachers. Instead, we’ll endure gaining valuable insights into the exercise of teaching too pupil learning.

We don't really know how teaching too learning unfold inwards classrooms across the globe. At the OECD, nosotros bring asked teachers too students close what goes on inwards class; nosotros bring measured students’ outcomes too teachers’ knowledge, too collected information close the resources at teachers’ disposal too their autonomy inwards shaping their lessons. But that doesn’t laissez passer us a consummate painting demonstrate of what teaching looks similar too how it influences pupil outcomes. Watching peers inwards action, though, tin assist teachers drib dead aware of their ain teaching methods, reverberate on other approaches, too sympathize what innovative pedagogies really hateful inwards practice.

The importance of observing existent teaching tin solely increase every bit the task becomes e'er to a greater extent than challenging. Teachers are beingness asked to motility away from teacher-centred methods too to cater to the unlike learning needs, styles too stride of their students. They are every bit good expected to run across the demands of chop-chop changing environments, from beingness able to purpose novel technologies to assist them inwards their lessons, to agreement how to instruct students from increasingly various backgrounds.

Observing how teachers to a greater extent than or less the basis bargain alongside similar challenges inwards unlike ways tin offering useful novel insights. Differences inwards teaching practices are greater betwixt countries than inside countries, peculiarly when it comes to student-centred too innovative teaching practices. This is because teaching practices are strongly influenced past times national pedagogical traditions too do non move easily. Opening upwardly peer observations to the entire basis tin supply fresh ideas close how teachers tin improve their ain practice, no thing where inwards the basis they teach.

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Teaching inwards Focus No. xx - What does teaching aspect like? Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel video study
Teaching too Learning International Survey (TALIS)

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