A complete solution for
Teacher Preparation Institutions
Training, video observations and feedback in one platform
With IRIS Connect, you can:
- Flexibly respond to student teachers’ needs with video observations.
- Provide contextualized feedback online, or in person. Deconstruct practice and model teaching strategies at the click of a button.
- Deliver effective mentor training online, quality assure Lead Mentors and track mentor engagement with training materials, any time, anywhere.
- Reduce your carbon footprint and make considerable savings on your travel time and budget
Partnered with:
Video Observations
Student teaching placements in can be intense and sometimes, it seems there is less flexibility to respond to student teachers’ needs.
With IRIS Connect, your student teacher can record their practice and share it with their mentor at the click of a button, enabling lesson observations, independent of time and location. On teaching placements, multiple people need to observe lessons and mentor meetings. With IRIS Connect, this is as simple as a students teacher pressing a button to share their classroom video
Contextualized
Feedback
Watch recorded lessons together with your student teacher and provide contextualized feedback in person. Alternatively, you can easily overcome the challenges of time and distance using time-stamped comments to annotate the video.
Having granular feedback, which is rooted in concrete classroom actions, really helps bridge the gap between research and practice and creates true purposeful integration between teacher preparation providers and their partner schools.
Online Mentor
Training & QA
Create and deliver a teacher preparation program online. Build training groups on IRIS Connect filled with evidence and research, practical teaching strategies and videos of model practice or mentoring strategies. Effectively quality assure Lead Mentors and formatively assess mentors, any time, anywhere.
You can build your own mentoring approach using our Pathways, or use one of our pre-defined Pathways, which help to create a consistent mentoring approach across your partnership. The ability to track completion and engagement on a dashboard is also useful for Lead Mentors to quality assure their allocated mentors.
– Teacher Educator, School of Professional Teacher Education at JAMK University of Applied Sciences
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IRIS Connect has paid for itself
AND reduced your carbon footprint by up to 526.7kg of CO2 emissions**
*Free mentor licenses included
**Exemplary calculation for 100 students and cars being the chosen mode of transport for school visits. Results may vary on a case by case basis on a variety of factors.
Interested to find out more?
Book a meeting to get a free demonstration of our platform and discuss how we can best support your needs.