Do Students Talk Enough in Class? Most teachers don’t realize how much time they spend talking during a lesson. While some teachers rightly elevate and emphasize student voices and limit their own …
Research Shows Swivl Improves Teacher Education Programs
Wendy McCracken, PhD, and Helen Chilton are lecturers and researchers at the University of Manchester in the Deaf Education Programme, and their study using Swivl within their teacher education …
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Five Steps to Expediting Teacher Experience
“Teaching experience is positively associated with student achievement gains throughout a teacher’s career.” These findings from a recent Learning Policy Institute study make it apparent just how …
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Maximize your CPD Programmes with Video Observations
Teaching is both a science and an art, and an ever-changing one at that. With each influx of pupils a whole generation of new minds are being cultivated. People, and the culture that shapes them, are …
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How to Cultivate Best Teaching Practices Using Video Observation
Teaching is both a science and an art, and an ever changing one at that. With each influx of students a whole generation of new minds are being fostered. But as every instructor knows, teaching is …
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Using Multi-Camera to Investigate How Infants Learn to Talk by Rachel Albert
As a developmental scientist, my challenge is filming parent-infant interaction in naturalistic settings to understand how infants learn language. Capturing high quality speech recordings from infants …
Teacher Tip: Start recording with Swivl at the start of the school year to accurately measure your student’s growth
Progress becomes a prominent term in our lexicon each year as the school year springs into action. Administrators, teachers and parents all become focused on just how well each student is doing. While …
How to Create a Culture of Support in Education
Close to fifty percent of new teachers will quit within their first five years on the job. Let that sink in for a moment. It’s a catastrophe that needs to be addressed on multiple levels: in teacher …
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Through the Looking Glass
Self Reflection as Best Practice It’s 3:30pm on a Tuesday. I’m sitting in gridlock traffic in Southwest Miami. It’s scorchingly hot outside and the sky has that hue of “impending doom gray” that …
Multi-Camera in the Classroom
Ann Marie Carrier is an Instructional Technology Specialist helping teachers to implement and integrate technology tools and applications to transform learning in the classroom to meet the needs of …