“Eighty five percent teacher talk for me—even for an interview that makes me think: yikes!”
Jamie Poskin was referring to the TeachFX analysis of the interview he’d just completed with Forbes. According to the app, he spent 85% of the call talking—which seems appropriate when answering a reporter’s questions. But had he been teaching English to a class of ninth graders, that figure would be higher than it should be, according to decades of research on student learning.
Poskin is the founder and CEO of TeachFX, an artificial intelligence-powered app that records teachers’ lessons and gives them personalized feedback about what they do well and where they could improve. How much time did they spend talking compared with their students? Did they ask too few open-ended questions? Did they use too many academic or technical words? Did they pause for an adequate amount of time after posing a question? TeachFX will tell them.
A former high school English and math teacher, Poskin, 38, started the company in 2016 and signed on his first customers during the 2018-19 school year. Like many fledgling businesses, TeachFX was nearly snuffed out by the Covid-19 pandemic, but today the company is partnered with about 70 school districts and is on track to book about $2.5 million in revenue this year. Last week, TeachFX announced it raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Reach Capital.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawhitford/2022/09/27/this-artificial-intelligence-app-wants-to-make-you-a-better-teacher/?sh=35184fa71873#open-web-0
Jamie Poskin was referring to the TeachFX analysis of the interview he’d just completed with Forbes. According to the app, he spent 85% of the call talking—which seems appropriate when answering a reporter’s questions. But had he been teaching English to a class of ninth graders, that figure would be higher than it should be, according to decades of research on student learning.
Poskin is the founder and CEO of TeachFX, an artificial intelligence-powered app that records teachers’ lessons and gives them personalized feedback about what they do well and where they could improve. How much time did they spend talking compared with their students? Did they ask too few open-ended questions? Did they use too many academic or technical words? Did they pause for an adequate amount of time after posing a question? TeachFX will tell them.
A former high school English and math teacher, Poskin, 38, started the company in 2016 and signed on his first customers during the 2018-19 school year. Like many fledgling businesses, TeachFX was nearly snuffed out by the Covid-19 pandemic, but today the company is partnered with about 70 school districts and is on track to book about $2.5 million in revenue this year. Last week, TeachFX announced it raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Reach Capital.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawhitford/2022/09/27/this-artificial-intelligence-app-wants-to-make-you-a-better-teacher/?sh=35184fa71873#open-web-0
