Date: 11th January 2018
Place: NHA room 300
Seminar teacher: Lisbeth M Brevik

The Linking Instruction and Student Experiences (LISE) project analyses 60 video-recorded lessons in English as a second language, in seven classrooms at seven lower secondary schools in Norway, over two school years (9th and 10th grade). We will introduce you to the LISE project, and teach you how to use some elements of the observation protocol that we use when we analyse these data: The Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observation (PLATO). The aim is to learn how to identify quality English teaching in lower secondary classrooms in Norway.

Photo: Colourbox

In this first seminar, we will first of all get to know each other and your main interests for your MA study. Then we will introduce the topic of classroom observation and video analysis and talk about why such analysis is both interesting and important for you as future teachers. We will also have a workshop with our principal engineer, Bjørn Sverre Gulheim, who will show us the video lab and how to access the video recordings from the LISE classrooms, and also how to use the transcription software Inqscribe. He is the data manager for the LISE project and will help with training that you need to transcribe and analyse these videos.

Preparation
To prepare for this seminar, please read read all the texts about Classroom observation (93 pages).

Workshops
Please sign up for one of the transcription workshops (18th January or 1st February 2018).

Video lab
To gain access to the video lab, please send an email with student information.