Video Analysis of Teaching (VAT) Final Project
EDUC 7702/7703
Your final project will be in lieu of a final exam for the course. It should be the
culmination of all the work you have done throughout the semester on the VATs.
Each VAT focused on a different component of teaching and learning that you
were to have looked for in the video of your instruction: dispositions of teaching,
behaviorist/social cognitive learning, and cognitive/cognitive
constructivism/memory/metacognition theories of learning.
The final project has two parts:
1. A PowerPoint presentation of no more than 8 slides in which you identify specific
areas of your teaching practice that the video made you want to improve or develop
further.
a. Overview of your observations and the overall experience
b. VAT Plan 1: Based on your observations, choose an area of instruction
that might be improved or changed and suggest your plan for
improvement. In other words, identify an end goal and tell what you
want to see in your practice as evidence of development: What is the
area? Why does it need improvement? What will be your plan? The
second and third questions should be based on material from Ormrod or
other Ed Psych text. Please cite sources.
c. VAT Plan 2: Same as above.
d. VAT Plan 3: Same as above. Note: For the VAT Plans, you may choose an
area addressed in the different VATs throughout the semester, but I do
not require that each Plan be from a different VAT. You may have three
that deal with social cognitive learning, for example.
e. A concluding slide. Note: Speakers, please remember to use good
PowerPoint etiquette—not too many words per slide; do not read the
slides to your audience; do not read from notes; in short, please make it a
priority to be engaging rather than (dare I say it?) boring. Audience,
please be good, active listeners. Remember, you learn from each other.
Presentations should be 20-25 minutes long.
2. A narrative that accompanies the presentation. You may use the same format as
outlined above for the PowerPoint. Your concluding section of the narrative
should explain the importance of the Video Analysis of Teaching as a whole (i.e.
all of the VATs). What did you learn from the experience? How will it affect your
teaching? Your students’ learning? Etc. The narrative should be 4 ½ to 5 pages in
length, double spaced, times/ariel/palatino linotype font, size 12, APA format.