Sokrates Teaching Analytics System (STAS): An Automatic Teaching Behavior Analysis System for Facilitating Teacher Professional Development

Abstract

Reflecting on one’s own teaching practice is a critical process for promoting his/her own teacher professional development. However, it is not easy for teachers to reflect on their teaching practice effectively without sufficient information. In past decades, many studies were undertaken to develop efficient methods for recording and analyzing teachers’ teaching behavior for helping teachers rethink their teaching practice. Those methods, however, were laborious or expensive. With the widespread adoption of smart classrooms, we are able to utilize their abilities of automatic data collection and thus develop an automatic teaching behavior analysis system, Sokrates Teaching Analytics System (STAS). STAS utilizes AI technology to analyze teachers’ teaching behavior which is automatically collected via HiTeach smart classroom interactive software. An integrated report of teaching analytics report is generated for teachers to reflect on their teaching practice right after the end of each class. Such a report not only helps teachers grasp their teaching practice in a class but also serves as a tool that experts can use to make concrete suggestions for teachers to promote their teacher professional development.