Pedagogical strategies on the use of a co-teaching audiovisual platform: pilots in initial teacher training

Abstract

The professional point of view (PPV) as future teachers should be developed during initial teacher training, and video observation and analysis of teaching events in practical experiences has proven to be an effective way of doing it. Framed in a Catalan regional project, the online platform Mestres que formen Mestres (MfM) shares video sequences of real teaching experiences in the non-university classrooms and pedagogical strategies to use them in initial teacher training. Following a phase of validation of 8 of those strategies, pilots in 9 courses of 7 different universities have been conducted in order to explore the usefulness of the platform and the strategies to develop pre-service teachers’ PPV. In this study, we focus on describing the pilots and presenting some of the survey results on pre-service teachers and educators’ perceptions on the contribution of the MfM platform to the improvement of students’ PPV concerning teaching events. The sample consisted of 332 pre-service teachers and 13 educators in the pre-test (before the pilot), and 189 pre-service teachers and 8 educators in the posttest (after the pilot). The results show that MfM was highly valued as a platform that can contribute to develop pre-service teachers’ PPV regarding teaching events. According to the students and educators’ perceptions, some of these events are less worked through the video sequences; for instance, addressing diversity, or assessment, respectively. The conclusions point towards the need of further developing the platform to include all teaching events more evenly, as well as conducting research on the impact of the platform on the pre-service teachers' performance in the school classrooms.

This publication is part of the 2023 ARMIF 00010 project, funded by the Departament de Recerca i Universitats de la Generalitat de Catalunya.