However, to fully realize the advancement of professional practice, such a group should be more than just a collection of interested practitioners getting together to discuss their work as recorded on video.
This "something more" is what author François Tochon calls "video pedagogy", a mix of structured conversation with powerful reflective frames.
Tochon provides descriptions of six different types of video study groups--functional, strategic, constructivist, sociocultural, personal, and pragmatic--thereby allowing for the use of multiple reflective frames. His use of real-world examples of teacher involvement in such groups makes his approach all the more compelling.
This book is intended for teachers, as well as staff developers, teacher educators, and policymakers who are interested in a bottom-up approach to teacher improvement that fully recognizes the realities of those doing the ground-level work.