Instruction Commentary

Identify learning experiences from Planning Task 1 to be videorecorded. You should choose learning experiences that show you interacting with children to promote language and literacy development in an interdisciplinary context through active and multimodal learning.

Videorecord your teaching.

Select 2 unedited video clips (no more than 15 minutes total, but not less than 3 minutes). Clip 1 must show class/group interaction (minimum of 4 children), and Clip 2 must show small- group interaction or interaction with an individual.

Videorecord evidence of learning for each focus child (to be submitted in Assessment Task 3).

Analyze your teaching and your children’s learning in the video clips by responding to commentary prompts.

¤ Examine your plans for the learning segment and identify learning experiences to videorecord. The video clips you select for submission should demonstrate how you support children’s language and literacy development in an interdisciplinary context though active and multimodal learning. Your instruction should challenge and actively engage children to deepen their understandings in developmentally appropriate ways.

¤ Identify 2 children who will be the focus children of this learning segment. At least one child must have specific learning needs, for example, a child with an IEP (Individualized Education Program) or 504 plan, an English language learner, a struggling reader, or a child at a different point in the developmental continuum in relation to the other children in the class/group.
¤ Videorecord your instruction.
NOTE: Consider recording your entire learning segment.
clips you submit. If most of the audio in a clip cannot be understood, submit another clip.
¡ Video clips must be continuous and unedited, with no interruption in events.