What is SeeMeTeach™?
A powerful teacher observation and development tool that has both a qualitative mode for comments and feedback, and a unique quantitative mode for robust data collection linked to video, with instant analysis for feedback and coaching.
Teacher Observation - Anytime. Anymode. Anywhere!
Live Observation | Virtual Live Observation | From Video | From Audio
SMT Contains
- Qualitative comments collection, analysis, and feedback
- Quantitative data collection, instant analysis, and feedback
- Data displayed using tables, graphs, charts, heat maps
- Data linked to video segments
- Seating charts showing student engagement and misbehaviors
- Teacher-student interaction data, patterns, and specific wait-times
- Feedback forms, standard or your own
- Fosters collaboration of up to four team members for observation and feedback
- Facilitates powerful teacher observation, peer coaching and feedback
- Common customer set is educators – SMT solves the major problem of educators who lack data embedded into teacher and classroom observations, and improvement plans.
For Use By:
- Pre-service Teachers in regular or alternative programs
- Cooperating Teachers and Clinical Supervisors
- Methods of teaching instructors and teacher preparation faculty
- Candidates for EdTPA preparation/submission
- Teachers – observe, reflect and fine-tune their teaching, or those working on National Board Certification of Teachers (NBCT) submission
- Teachers and Administrators - formal observations, growth and improvement plans
- Faculty or Graduate Student Research
- Program and Grant Evaluators
- School Districts – self and external assessment
- Department of Public Instruction – evidence of performance and growth from programs
- Institutions of Higher Education - faculty development and excellence programs
Features
The Qualitative Mode - Highlights and Important Features
Lesson Plans
Before, during, or after the observation, the observer can quickly access the teacher’s Lesson Plans, either via the Dashboard, or via the Team Table
Pre-lesson Questions
To provide the observer with some context and information about the upcoming observation, the teacher can respond to the Pre-lesson Questions, which the observer can see via the dashboard, or via the observation pages
Observation – Categories and Comments
The observer, or multiple team members, provide comments, labeled by categories
Seating Chart
The teacher or observer can create a Seating Chart and refer to this when making comments - showing each student and also showing small groups
Post Lesson Questions
To stimulate reflection, this can be filled out or accessed via the settings, or via the observation/analysis page
Team Table
Using this feature a user can choose whose comments to view
Using data and evidence
The observer can use data from the quantitative analysis to bolster comments made during the qualitative comments mode
Summative Forms
When the observation is over, the observer can add Summative Comments, and/or fill in Summative Forms
The Quantitative Mode – Highlights and Important Features
Code Summary
Where all the data is summarized using graphs and tables
Student Engagement
Displays which students contributed to the class, and when, using black bars on a timeline, and also a heat map on the seating chart. The user can also isolate data for an individual student, and play the linked video. Red bars indicate when the teacher was using whole class strategies to get all students thinking and responding. The Seating Chart also displays student engagement within small groups
Management Summary
Management Summary provides a seating chart, timeline and individual student data for misbehaviors using black bars on the timeline that are also linked to the video, and the teacher’s response and intervention using red bars that are linked to video
Interaction Patterns
Interaction Patterns provides a look at the teacher’s teaching fingerprint, uncovering and showing major tendencies for how they interact with students, and how much student-student interaction was present in the lesson
Wait-time Summary
The Wait-time Summary provides a breakdown of wait-time 1 and wait-time 2 (and more) as well as wait-time averages for different question types and teacher actions
Small Group
Small Group data can be collected and tagged for each small group and then analyzed and displayed according to the specific small groups
Data Buttons
Data Buttons is a feature used to search for specific types of data, that can be located and the linked video played to see that type of teacher or student action
Pre-Lesson Questions
Pre-Lesson Questions, can be accessed from both the Settings screen and from the Analysis screen
Post-Lesson Questions
Post-Lesson Questions, can be accessed from both the Settings screen and from the Analysis screen
Summative Comments and Summative Forms
When the observation is over, the observer can add Summative Comments, and/or fill in Summative Forms
Download or Export Data Feature
SMT software is designed to allow the user to download the raw data collected during a teacher observation. Clicking the Download Data button will compile the raw data into a .csv (spreadsheet) file that resides on the user’s computer to apply a statistical package external to SMT and thereby achieve their own customized and personalized analysis.
