Interaction between Teaching and Learning

Traditional teaching and learning take place in isolation inside the four walls of the classroom. Naturally, the teacher can focus only on some of what happens during the lesson, and reconstruct from memory only certain events. The pace of the lesson, the number and diversity of students and the professional need to make many instantaneous decisions, create a situation in which it is very difficult to focus on multiple learning processes simultaneously.

Therefore, teachers need methods for zooming in, capturing, and examining the nuts and bolts of their practice. For example, videotaping of classroom teaching and learning enables teachers to observe their own practice from a perspective of analysis and study. In this way, teachers can cultivate their professional development by themselves, while focusing their attention on the interaction between their teaching and student learning.