Practice-focused teacher education
Being practice-focused requires examining the actual teaching
Becoming a self-reflective practitioner requires skills honed during teacher education experiences.
Your candidates will learn to examine their own teaching starting in methods courses and continuing into the practicum experience. Faculty and supervisors can collaborate and align on feedback, too.
Increase candidate access to diverse classrooms
Virtual visits via video provide teachers an opportunity to experience diverse classrooms
Teacher candidates gain access to more diverse settings during field experiences by virtually observing their peers.
Help your teacher candidates build readiness for their full-time classrooms by helping them develop a broader understanding of students and settings during their training. Video observation enables access to new types of classrooms and contexts without driving a single extra mile.
Anchor assignments to evidence of teaching
Integrate video experiences across the program experience
As the designers of teacher learning, faculty and supervisors need easy-to-use tools, too.
Edthena Explorations provide a fast and flexible way to launch learning modules that are linked to your program frameworks and standards. Explorations make it easy to capture a mix of qualitative and quantitative feedback to measure candidate growth.
Video Coaching
edTPA® Task 2 without tears
The best video analysis tools for building edTPA portfolios
Completing edTPA is a critical step for many teacher candidates on the path to becoming a fully-certified teacher.
Assembling the artifacts, commentaries, and video clips in an organized way can be made less challenging with Edthena Video Coaching. Edthena is an approved edTPA Platform Provider and supports Local Evaluation as well as transfer to the edTPA platform for official scoring by trained and calibrated scorers.
Data for program improvement and accreditation
Understand trends across your program to identify areas for growth
From key assessments to candidate portfolios to doing content analysis of comments, your program will have many ways to understand candidate growth.
Edthena Video Coaching generates robust data about your practice-focused teacher education experience. Use embedded dashboards and data exports to ensure alignment between your program's goals and program's reality as part of CAEP, AAQEP, and other accreditation processes.
The technology is accessible and easy to learn
Using video to support teacher learning requires flexible technology that puts research into practice with the right tools. Hear from our teacher education partners who are finding that implementing the Edthena platform is easy and accessible for all.
Undergraduate Program Director, City University of Seattle
Dean, Monmouth University
We literally wrote the book on video coaching
Our Insights
How to Deliver High-Quality Classroom Video Recording on a Budget
This guide shows K–12 educators how to build a complete classroom video recording kit for just $200 per teacher. Learn what equipment you need, how to set it up, and how to use it for effective teacher coaching.
How Districts Can Scale Instructional Coaching Without Increasing Budget (Florida HB 875 & National Trends)
New mandates demand more teacher support, but budgets stay flat. Learn how districts are using scalable technology to expand coaching and meet expectations without increasing staff.
How Observation Copilot is saving principals hours on observations
What if you could cut observation write-up time from 3 hours to just 30 minutes? THE Journal recently featured Edthena’s new Observation Copilot, an AI-powered tool that’s helping principals provide faster, more impactful feedback while dramatically reducing administrative burden. Best part? It’s free for all school leaders.
