New Teacher Survival Guide: Differentiating Instruction
This 13-minute video features a new chemistry teacher working with an expert in differentiated instruction to modify a lesson. The goal: to meet the needs of the diverse learners in her classroom. The teacher tries several strategies, including tiered word problems and group work, and discusses her successes and challenges. To facilitate sharing and self-reflection,… Read More ›
Clipboards: A Tool for Informal Assessment
In this short video, an experienced teacher and math coach shares an informal strategy for formative assessment and lesson planning: classroom clipboard. She explains the many ways she uses the informal notes she takes as she observes and interacts with student groups for formative assessment. To facilitate sharing and self reflection, The Teaching Channel provides… Read More ›
Leadership Teams Pursue Powerful Instruction
This six minute video features the story of a high-poverty school using leadership teams to transform teaching to become more focused on student-centered learning. It includes footage of teams in action, discussing topics such as methods for formative assessment. To facilitate sharing and self reflection, The Teaching Channel provides free videos highlighting real teachers implementing… Read More ›
Teaching ELA: Evidence & Arguments Series
This video series highlights a student-centered approach to teaching the ELA core standard “Evidence and Arguments.” Three videos follow the lesson planning, teaching, and post-analysis. The lesson includes many ways to experience a text through close reading, group work, group feedback, a Socratic discussion, and writing a persuasive blog post. An experienced teacher discusses the… Read More ›
STEM Connection: From Classroom to Workplace
This case study, part of the Schools that Work series on Edutopia, showcases MC2 STEM High School in Cleveland, Ohio. A short overview is accompanied by many supporting resources that describe how the school gets its results. Also of note are the articles on project-based learning and mastery-based assessment. Each article describes the process used… Read More ›
What Should School Be? A Student-centered Road Trip
This six minute video follows a group of Vermont high school students visiting a model school in Providence, Rhode Island to learn about personalized student-centered learning. The video focuses on the students’ experience organizing, attending, and debriefing from the trip. Source Organization: Partnership for Change
Proficiency Based Learning at Burlington High School
Proficiency Based Learning at BHS In this 11 minute video, a Physics teacher documents her introduction of a proficiency-based learning approach in the last unit of her course. She clearly describes the steps she took to plan, implement, and assess the impact of this new teaching and learning approach, from writing the proficiencies to pre-… Read More ›
“I Used to Think”
This video from the Sanford Public School features Sanford teachers discussing their process of continuously learning to adjust their classroom practices in order to provide student-centered, proficiency-based learning experiences for and with their students. Source Organization: Sanford School Department
“Meeting Standards in a Student-Centered, Proficiency-based Classroom”
This video from the Sanford Public Schools, “Meeting Standards in a Student-Centered, Proficiency-Based Classroom” features students speaking about their experiences in a proficiency-based classroom. Source Organization: Sanford School Department
Walk in our Shoes
The Providence Student Union invited local politicians and public leaders to make the 2.96 mile walk to school necessitated by poor bus pass legislation. Source Organization: Providence Student Union VISIT THE RESOURCE
“More than a Test Score” Campaign
The Providence Student Union challenged local community leaders to take an abbreviated version of the NECAP test (a graduation requirement). The adult test-takers’ results mirrored the results in Providence high schools; almost 60% received “substantially below proficient” and would be at risk of not receiving a diploma. Source Organization: Providence Student Union Visit the Resource
Expanded Learning Opportunities
This video was filmed, edited, and produced by high school youth employed at The Hub in Providence. It is an introduction to Providence’s Expanded Learning Opportunities. Source Organization: The Providence After School Alliance