How to Create a Teaching Video for AFMTE Educator Certification with Deanna Sylvester

Are you gathering content for your application to become a Certified Educator of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork?

00:00 Hey educators! Deanna Sylvester here. Have you been assembling your portfolio to apply for certification? If so you probably find that you have most of the materials you need except for video of you actually teaching something

00:15 So here’s a question have you thought about involving your students? You’ve probably got more than one tech-savvy student in your classroom and I was thinking during a particularly interesting or fun lecture or demonstration or discussion, you’d hand your smartphone to one of those tech-savvy students and have them record you!

00:38 Here’s a secret. All these videos I do are on my smartphone! It doesn’t have to be anything better than that!

00:45 So then once you have several segments, ten or so minutes long, you can go through and pick the ones you like the best and edit them down, too, so that you have two segment between five and ten minutes long!

01:00 Here are three we really important things to think about when you’re recording your videos. Number one: Don’t record in the highest definition. I strongly recommend you record at 720 HD and not 1080 HD, which is the high definition that most smartphones would have defaulted at. So change it to the lower 720 HD because in the application submission portal there’s a file size limit.

01:30 Each file can’t be larger than 4000 megabytes, so if you’re recording at 720, it’s still going to be less than 4000 megabytes even if your video goes the full 10 minutes long, and of course it can’t be longer than 10 minutes so you’ll be safe within that and number.

01:47 Two: Make sure you’re the one in the video frame, not your students! So make sure if your student or whoever’s recording you is recording you and if any of your students do appear in the video during a discussion or something like that, get their permission because even though these videos are not going to be made public, they’re just going to be submitted to the application review portal. There are several people who have access, several people in the AFMTE have access to those videos, myself, the reviewers, administrative staff, so make sure you have someone’s permission to submit this video for your application if they appear in it besides you.

02:25 And number three, and most importantly, make sure you include as many of the core competencies evidence as possible in your videos. So take the self-assessment worksheet and go through and write down how you actually demonstrate of each of the core competencies, what’s the evidence that you know you can be confident about and can demonstrate these competencies and then look through and see how many of those can be put in a video form and can be demonstrated through a video.

02:59 So for example let’s say you wanted to demonstrate standard number three. Can you show that you know about learning environments that support individual and collaborative learning? How would you do that in your video? Can you encourage positive social interaction, active engagement, self motivation, those things? What of you in your video if you demonstrate those that would show that you meet standard three. If you wanted to demonstrate standard five, you’d want to use different perspectives to engage earners in critical thinking and creativity,so how would you do that? If you wanted to demonstrate standard number seven, how would you use a variety of instructional strategies to motivate learners to build skills and apply knowledge in meaningful and effective ways? What would that look like in your subject matter? So those are the things that our reviewers, the portfolio reviewers, are going to be looking for in your videos and your other materials.

03:58 So let us know if you have any questions as you go through this process! We’re super excited for you and for your students to have a certified educator in their classroom!