You haven’t had fun until you’ve had someone videotape you doing your job for an hour and 15 minutes and then had to comb through the video for the 20 minutes that highlights you at your best.
This would be the video I’m submitting for the California Teacher’s Performance Assessment Task 4: The Culminating Teaching Experience.
When they ask me to evaluate the video they probably are not looking to hear the following:
Pear is a body type. Apple is a body type. How in hell did I get to be both a pear and an apple?!
Cute haircut!
Even though my frames are over a year old I still love them.
I have a facial tic! WTF?!*
* The tic is a quick half-smile with the left side of my face. I do it a lot in the video—and yes, I was on the nervous side. I showed the footage to my family and they were all, “Unh-huh. You do that all the time.” According to my husband, I’ve been doing it as long as he has known me, which is since I was 16. I cannot believe I did not know this. My bff maintained she had no idea what I was talking about until I showed her the video—then she said, “Oh! That’s just you.”
I might prefer death to having to watch myself teach on video.
Posted by: Kalynne Pudner | November 10, 2009 at 12:50 AM
What? You're not going to post any of it for us? I want to see the tic!
Posted by: Susan | November 10, 2009 at 02:15 AM
The good news is that you like your hair & your frames, and your facial tic has never bothered anyone. (It's probably cute!)
I had a picture taken of me with my dh and oldest son on Friday night. I knew I was large, but it was a shock. So yep, I understand.
Posted by: kcinnova | November 10, 2009 at 06:12 AM
this is so funny. I hate to see myself in a video..but even worse? HEARING myself. This made me laugh this morning!
Posted by: busy bee suz | November 10, 2009 at 07:54 AM
better a TIC than a TICK :)
Posted by: gary | November 10, 2009 at 08:22 AM
How about the mug shots they post on the home page for schools? Mine is horrid!
Posted by: allmycke | November 10, 2009 at 08:24 AM
Oh, you deserve lots of chocolate.
Posted by: phd in yogurtry | November 10, 2009 at 09:16 AM
Wait. Everyone in the teaching program has to submit a 20 minute video of themselves in order to get their teaching certificate!? Is the person who came up with this idea one of the people who has to watch said videos? This just screams WASTE OF TIME to me. How many of those videos do you think actually get watched? Or is it even worse where you show the video to a class and they get to critique your teaching? Ugh.
Posted by: kellyg | November 10, 2009 at 09:39 AM
Not only the video, but a written assessment of it. They get watched. Grading the TPAs is on of the things teachers and professors do for extra money. If you dont pass a second person reviews everything to make sure they agree.
Posted by: Jenn O | November 10, 2009 at 10:07 AM
That sounds like a harrowing experience!
I'm an apple and a pear, too. And sometimes a bit of a pumpkin.
Posted by: Alesia | November 10, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Crazy lol. Too funny about the tick.
Posted by: Mom Taxi Julie | November 10, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Lorrrrrrrrrrrrd, when Bossy has to watch Bossy on video it's like someone opened the gates of hell.
Posted by: BOSSY | November 10, 2009 at 11:47 AM
I could not watch a video of myself, no way, no how!
Posted by: imom | November 10, 2009 at 01:39 PM
I'm with imom! Pictures are bad enough, but a video would...okay, I can't even think about it!
Posted by: Kelly | November 10, 2009 at 02:24 PM
Ever since my son was diagnosed with TS, I have noticed tics in everyone. So I would definitely have seen you do it. After my initial thought, "Oh, she has a tic" I would then embrace you with all 6 foot 1 of my power and hug you because you are beautiful, smart, a role model, and hey, you have a small tic! Big deal! Hooray!
And then, after my ginormous body had crushed you with gratitude, you would go home and put my email and blog into your "Very very bad scary person file keep her the fxxx away from me" list and you'd never hear from me again.
Yeah for tics!
Posted by: andrea frazer | November 10, 2009 at 02:54 PM
When I first started standup, I took a class and the teacher taped us all. She kept calling me The Little Teapot. When I saw the tape, and heard everyone roaring w laughter I realized I used to switch off arms, first the right one on my hip, then the left one on my hip. HORRIFYING. I never did it again.
Posted by: Suzy | November 10, 2009 at 03:36 PM
I musch prefer my idea of me to the actual me.
Posted by: Brightside-Susan | November 10, 2009 at 05:14 PM
Even though I have been teaching for almost 30 years, I have never had myself recorded. But I think it is an interesting way to get to know what others see when you stand in front of them and check whether you would like to be a student in your class. I guess you did a great job!!!
Posted by: sinkuenta | November 10, 2009 at 05:59 PM
I cannot imagine the hell of doing that kind of culling of video minutes. I would only want ones where the camera showed my eyes and nothing else.
Perhaps this will help you feel better: I had to be videotaped last year, as a candidate for a teaching award, and THEN THE VIDEO WAS PUT ON THE WEB FOR MY FELLOW FACULTY TO VOTE ON.
See, there are greater hells.
Posted by: Jocelyn | November 10, 2009 at 07:40 PM
Hahahahaha! This took me back! I remember my video, and I too commented on my hair, my body, how strange my voice sounds, etc. I also couldn't believe that two boys were hitting each other with rulers the entire time, which I failed to notice while teaching!
Posted by: jenrantsraves | November 10, 2009 at 08:35 PM
No one should be made to watch themself on video!!
The books came today, they are FABULOUS!! I'm afraid economic times lend to giving them as Christmas presents to my two oldest, but until then I may try a thing or two out on them. Spilled coffee on a laptop... my 13 yo brings his school laptop home almost every night, I would have to adapt it since I don't drink coffee...
Posted by: MJ | November 11, 2009 at 07:45 AM
is is so funny. I hate to see myself in a video..but even worse? HEARING myself. This made me laugh this morning!
Work from home India
Posted by: prashant | November 11, 2009 at 12:54 PM
"Oh, thats's just you"...perfect.
Posted by: mrs. g. | November 11, 2009 at 07:09 PM
I can only imagine that you are amazing.
Posted by: JCK | November 12, 2009 at 11:58 PM