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Teachers everywhere are under way more pressure to address required content standards, teach for student understanding, and reach
an increasingly diverse student population. Find out how you can do that by using Differentiated Instruction (DI) and Understanding
by Design®(UbD) in tandem to incorporate content standards into an understanding-based curriculum that includes instruction
that supports the success of all students. Leading experts Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe come together for an informal
and enlightening conversation that explains how to use DI and UbD approaches to meet the demands of a fast-changing educational
landscape of 21st century learning.
What's the connection between differentiated instruction and curriculum mapping? Here's your chance to hear the two leading authorities answer that question:
Carol Ann Tomlinson on differentiated instruction.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs on curriculum mapping.
Filmed live at a recent conference, these renowned experts explain the key principles and practices of effective curriculum mapping and how they can help plan for content requirements and learner needs. Discover how to enhance the power of curriculum maps by developing them with student differences in mind.
Instructional Power is a collection of simple yet effective strategies and ideas for increasing student engagement and participation. You'll see elementary, middle school, and high school teachers and students in action though filmed in co-taught classes; these techniques are easily adaptable for use by any teacher.
This DVD give teachers and administrators looking for ways to add "punch" to their instruction that can help improve student outcomes. It's a great starting point for conversations about classroom use of simple technology, the importance and feasibility of differentiation during instruction, and the impact that brisk pacing and high levels of student participation combine to boost student outcome.
The Forum's Co-Teaching Video Series presents nationally renowned co-teaching expert Dr. Marilyn Friend. More Power: Instruction in Co-Taught Classrooms, builds on the six co-teaching approaches Dr. Friend made famous in the Forum's Power of 2 DVD by presenting seven key dimensions of effective instructional practices across K-12 settings. This next generation of co-teaching empowers teachers and gives students a richer and deeper classroom experience. This DVD incorporating evidence-baced strategies, demonstrates how to get more power from your co-teaching to improve outcomes for all students.
"I am excited about this video for staff development. It will take us beyond the initial components of co-teaching and into the next level of instruction." - Alexa Tate, Educational Consultant, Edwardsville, IL
In this award-winning documentary, a 4th grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learns lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates. Capturing intimate moment of the students' laughter and tears, the film explores one teacher's approach to allowing children the opportunity to discover the value of sharing powerful emotions. Classroom discussions include difficult issues such as the death of a parent or being the victim of bullying. In this "school of life", the simple message is learning to look after on another. Following Mr. Kanamori's class for a complete school year, the cameras were kept at the children's eye level, giving their view of the world as they cope with troubled relationships and the loss of loved ones. Through their daily experiences, viewers see how they develop together in a spirit of cooperation and compassion.
DVD / 2004 / (Grades 7-12, Adult Education, Post Secondary, Teacher Resource) / 45 minutes
Emily Morrison explores four areas of Parent/Teacher Communication with elementary school teachers. Parents and teachers have a common ground in their deep care and concern for the child's success. The presentation includes suggestions for introductory, ongoing and scheduled parent communication so that it is a regular part of the school week and parent is ever surprised by a report card grade. Ms. Morrison gives you the keys to creating and maintaining a dynamic partnership.
Follow Emily Morrison through the many paths to assessing and grading students fairly and accurately. Ms. Morrison explains Informal, Interim, Formal and Special Needs Assessment and illustrates how their use results in a comprehensive view of student progress and valuable teacher feedback. Keep current with grading and assure that you can "Make the Grade" with accuracy and ease.
Join award-winning teacher, Emily Morrison, as she brings her dynamic hands-on approach to the important first few days of the school year. This video contains specific practical ideas for setting up an enriching, positive classroom environment. Empowering students through structured choices, creative jobs and job charts, and a simple plan for regular and meaningful communication with parents are a few examples of the many substantive topics that are covered.
Questioning is the foundation of teaching and learning. This program features the QUILT model: Questioning and Understanding to Improve Learning and Thinking. Through effective questioning, student learning and achievement increases if teachers will
Explore techniques for questioning to promote learning and thinking.
Help students develop skills of inquiry and the ability to ask more questions.
Consider how to write questions that are purposeful and clearly focused.
Present questions effectively and prompt responses to enhance learning.
Understand the need for 'wait times.'
Explore ways to prompt and process student responses.
Observe skilled teachers in numerous classrooms successfully involve all students in the learning.
Questioning is the foundation of teaching and learning. This program features the QUILT model: Questioning and Understanding to Improve Learning and Thinking. Through effective questioning, student learning and achievement increases if teachers will
Explore techniques for questioning to promote learning and thinking.
Help students develop skills of inquiry and the ability to ask more questions.
Consider how to write questions that are purposeful and clearly focused.
Present questions effectively and prompt responses to enhance learning.
Understand the need for 'wait times.'
Explore ways to prompt and process student responses.
Observe skilled teachers in numerous classrooms successfully involve all students in the learning.
Agriculture, medicine and industry all use evidence-based methods that are decided by what works best in experiments rather than custom and practice, or merely tradition. Teaching is becoming this way too, and we now know what teaching methods are consistantly reliable and effective in the classroom.
This DVD covers ten of the most effective teaching methods as identified by thousands of experiments conducted worldwide.
Using the latest research, this video explains, in a jargon-free and accessible way, how the brain learns, and why some students find learning difficult.
With diagrams and plain English, the film explores how you can further improve your teaching by understanding key brain functions.
The video looks at the learning process and includes sections on common learning myths, case studies, and why the most effective classroom methods really work.
This resource has activity sessions, making this a valuable resource for staff training and professional development.
All materials and activities have been tested in his training sessions by teachers.
Learning is a lifelong adventure. It starts in your mother's womb, accelerates to high speed in infancy and childhood, and continues through every age, whether you're actively engaged in mastering a new skill, intuitively discovering an unfamiliar place, or just sleeping, which is fundamental to helping you consolidate and hold on to what you've learned. You are truly born to learn around the clock.
But few of us know how we learn, which is the key to learning and studying more effectively. For example, you may be surprised by the following:
People tend to misjudge what they have learned well, what they don't yet know, and what they do and do not need to practice.
Moments of confusion, frustration, uncertainty, and lack of confidence are part of the process of acquiring new skills and new knowledge.
Humans and animals explore their worlds for the sake of learning, regardless of rewards and punishment connected with success.
You can teach an old dog new tricks. In fact, older learners have the benefit of prior knowledge and critical skills¡Xtwo advantages in learning.
Shedding light on what's going on when we learn and dispelling common myths about the subject, How We Learn introduces you to this practical and accessible science in 24 half-hour lectures presented by Professor Monisha Pasupathi of the University of Utah, an award-winning psychology teacher and expert on how people of all ages learn.
Everything we do should center on what we are learning about the human brain. If we know something and don't change our behavior because of that knowledge, that's malpractice. - David Sousa
This remarkable program will teach educators how to
Apply brain research to affect how students learn.
See how the rational system initiates learning and the emotional system triggers the storage of information.
Discover the value of humor in the classroom.
Understand how physiological cycles affect learning.
Explore how learning pathways are set with repetition, practice time, and "down time."
Learn the importance of guided and individual practice.
Examine the cycles within a learning session.
Look at the impact of environmental factors on the brain.
Realize how the brain takes in and stores information.
Observe classrooms effectively using brain research.
Everything we do should center on what we are learning about the human brain. If we know something and don't change our behavior because of that knowledge, that's malpractice. - David Sousa
This remarkable program will teach educators how to
Apply brain research to affect how students learn.
See how the rational system initiates learning and the emotional system triggers the storage of information.
Discover the value of humor in the classroom.
Understand how physiological cycles affect learning.
Explore how learning pathways are set with repetition, practice time, and "down time."
Learn the importance of guided and individual practice.
Examine the cycles within a learning session.
Look at the impact of environmental factors on the brain.
Realize how the brain takes in and stores information.
Observe classrooms effectively using brain research.
To address concerns about inclusive education, nurture faith in the possibility of inclusion, and impart a sense of its great rewards.
This video focuses on teachers, administrators and aides. Through interviews with those involved in providing inclusive opportunities, it discusses the realities of implementation, strategies for effective inclusion, and the necessity of support systems.
Reviews
"This affirmative and practical resource is excellent for staff training and community education on a timely issue." - Booklist
"...A wide range of encouraging and informative ideas..." - Video Librarian
"An inspiring and encouraging look at what can be done by dedicated, forward looking professionals... well done..." - School Library Journal
To provide a unique opportunity to observe the inclusion process over two school years.
This program begins when 8-year old Heather, a little girl with Downs syndrome, is in a self-contained, special education classroom. It follows her through age 10 and full inclusion into her neighborhood school.
The program documents Heather and her family, teachers, aid, principal, and classmates as they make this journey from self-contained classroom to an inclusive setting. It enables viewers to see for themselves the step-by-step nature of the inclusion process, its challenges, and its rewards.
Reviews
"This affirmative and practical resource is excellent for staff training and community education on a timely issue." - Booklist
"...A wide range of encouraging and informative ideas..." - Video Librarian
"An inspiring and encouraging look at what can be done by dedicated, forward looking professionals... well done..." - School Library Journal
To highlight portions of A week-long Inclusion Workshop conducted in the Chicago area by noted inclusion specialists Dr. Marsha Forest, Dr. Jack Pearpoint, and Ms. Judith Snow.
This series provides an Inclusion Workshop overview. It introduces inclusion to parents, educators, and communities. The presentation creates a basis for understanding individual and group dynamics. It demonstrates ways of analyzing a problem, mapping out the desired result, and finding ways to achieve that goal.
Together We're Better is highly motivating and offers a set of effective tools and strategies for fostering an inclusive environment.
Part I Introduction to Inclusion (59 Minutes)
The Four H's - Dr. Marsha Forest (11 minutes)
The Philosophy of Inclusion: ABC's and Two Roads: The Road to Exclusion and
the Road to Inclusion - Dr. Jack Pearpoint (23 minutes)
Thoughts on Disabilities, Differences and Giftedness - Ms. Judith Snow (25
minutes)
Part II Strategies (37 Minutes)
Curriculum of Caring (2 minutes)
Quaker Meeting Circle (12 minutes)
Qualitative Evaluation Procedure (3 minutes)
The Six Hats (5 minutes)
Circle of Friends (15 minutes)
Part III MAPS & PATHS (51 Minutes)
MAPS - Making Action Plans: A Long-Term Visionary Process and a Plan to Achieve the Dream and Avoid the Nightmare (24 minutes)
PATH - Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope: A Problem Solving Strategy, a Visionary Process, and a Plan to Get Where You Want to Be in One Year (27 minutes)
Reviews
"This affirmative and practical resource is excellent for staff training and community education on a timely issue." - Booklist
"...A wide range of encouraging and informative ideas..." - Video Librarian
"An inspiring and encouraging look at what can be done by dedicated, forward looking professionals... well done..." - School Library Journal
Featuring Suzanne Robinson, Beverly Colombo, and Toby Karten
Increasing Achievement for All Students Including Students with Special Needs addresses one of today's most pressing issues and gives teachers research-based tools and strategies to succeed with special needs students.
Build teachers' instructional repertories with strategies that benefit every learner.
Observe real classrooms where students feel safe and make exceptional progress.
Discover how to help students become successful independent learners.
Examine the Content Literacy Continuum, a research-based model that helps students develop content literacy skills.
See how the Content Literacy Continuum supports the Response to Intervention framework.
Featuring Suzanne Robinson, Beverly Colombo, and Toby Karten
Increasing Achievement for All Students Including Students with Special Needs addresses one of today's most pressing issues and gives teachers research-based tools and strategies to succeed with special needs students.
Build teachers' instructional repertories with strategies that benefit every learner.
Observe real classrooms where students feel safe and make exceptional progress.
Discover how to help students become successful independent learners.
Examine the Content Literacy Continuum, a research-based model that helps students develop content literacy skills.
See how the Content Literacy Continuum supports the Response to Intervention framework.
How are the brains of people with learning difficulties different and how can we help them?
This film covers four main areas:
Dyslexia
Attention Deficit
Dyscalculia
Autistic Spectrum
Using models and diagrams, Mike Bell explains how the latest research can help teachers both understand their pupils and improve their learning. Weaknesses in one area can sometimes be strengths in another. Since all the skills of the brain can be improved with practice, we include proven methods to help students in each of the four areas.
In this DVD presentation, Beth Elkins talks about how to support students with special educational needs and disabilities, as she does regularly in her job as personal support manager at one of the UK's largest colleges.
Dr. Birsh, series editor, presents an overview of the TLD VIDEO PROGRAM with a brief look at all the educators in action. This video will help teachers recognize learning disabilities. It explains learning problems and demonstrates practical teaching strategies. Ideal for the general classroom teacher with mainstreamed LD students and as a concise preview for the entire series.
Dr. Shepherd explains techniques teachers can use to instill motivation in learning disabled children so that these students can move from a feeling of learned helplessness to one of confidence, raising their self-esteem. She illustrates why children who struggle to learn have such a fragile sense of themselves. Her goal is to encourage teachers and parents to inspire students to work for the satisfaction learning rather than from a desire for approval.
Dr. Healy covers a wide variety of topics about the brain's development and how it relates to the difficulties encountered by the LD student. Practical guidelines for teachers who want to understand how study skills develop and help students acquire them. She offers insight and hope in talking about why some students' brains seem naturally "disorganized", what skills should we expect at different ages and how to deal with "memory problems". Maladaptive learning skills can be eliminated if the brain is exposed to new dimensions and ways of learning. She explains how.