Why should your ECTs and mentors use it?
Because it makes reflection and feedback more effective and flexible.
Recording lessons can help ECTs:
- notice things they miss while teaching
- reflect on specific moments
- get more concrete feedback from their mentor
- and get feedback based on a wider variety of lessons than in‑person drop-ins alone
Mentors can also record their own lessons to model effective practice which they can watch and discuss with their ECT in their weekly mentor meetings.
This short video explains in more detail how the tool can benefit ECT teaching practice:
Contributing lesson transcripts to research can also help improve the support available to teachers. It helps NIoT understand which teaching practices are linked to positive pupil outcomes and supports the development of an automated feedback tool to help mentors support ECT development. The larger and more diverse the dataset, the more we can learn about what matters most for learning in the classroom, including what works best in different contexts such as different school types. This also makes the automated tool more useful across a wider range of classrooms.