Teachers’ Collaborative Professional Development Model through Video Analysis Methods-Design Based Research in 2011~2012

This article describes a teacher’s professional development model based on collaborative learning theory and video reflective club experiences. 408 teachers of all subjects joined our program and 113 of them upload their videos for discussion and reflections. We are doing this research in a real-life environment with multiple variables, and have to adopt design based research as methodology. At the very beginning we put up a VOD platform and quantitative analysis results for teachers to make their discussion; then we keep collecting filed notes, patch flaws and add elements that might work. After 3 iterations, the author summarized all the positive effect and simplified the whole process into a cycling model. Which uses teachers’ real-life classroom video as media, video analysis as scaffold, online discussion as main activity, reflection as guarantee, and trying to make them redesign their instructional design as a continuous process.