My teaching residency comes with many requirements from many people. It can sometimes feel overwhelming to make sure I am fulfilling all of those requirements.
I have found www.teachingchannel.org to be a helpful tool in facilitating the communication between everyone on my team.
Through this website we were able to create a group where we can post videos of me and my mentor interacting with the students. Within this group we can discuss observations of things we see that need to be improved, things I notice was modeled nicely by my mentor, and extra details from students' reactions that we may not have noticed in real time.There is an app that supplements this website that helps uploading videos and makes attaching them to our specific group very easy.
In addition to using this website to collaborate with my residency team, it is a great tool to see what is going on in other classrooms around the AUSL network and the rest of the country. I can navigate through the website to see videos on how other teachers approach certain content challenges. There is an I can also use the videos to observe how effective different behavior or classroom management styles are in different classrooms.
There is an entire section devoted to Q&A where teachers can post a general questions and other teachers can discuss it in a forum. It is a great way to get advice from quality educators throughout the country.
https://www.teachingchannel.org/questions?default=1
There are also some nice, brief professional development videos on this site which are helpful in discovering my personal teaching style. I am confident that I will spend many hours reviewing all the resources packed into this collaborative website.
