Format and Schedule
Every Monday, starting in September, I will post a video featuring a teacher in the classroom. I’ve chosen the footage to create a “you are here” feel, so that you can fully witness good educators interacting with their students. The videos cover the following areas:
- Literacy skills
- Mathematics skills
- Project-based learning
- Assessments
- Technology in the classroom
One week will feature an elementary teacher, and the next week a secondary teacher; however, I believe that videos of good practice provide useful content no matter what grade you teach. In other words, if you are a second-grade teacher, please check out the secondary videos from time to time. Similarly, if you teach English, you may get some good ideas from the mathematics skills videos.
A note on these videos: while they feature good teaching practices, they are not meant to be the final authority on their topic. My aim is to show several great ways to approach project-based learning during the course of the school year, for example, but never to claim that they are the ONLY ways. Instead, I hope that the videos I post will foster useful discussion and reflection.
As another way to add value to this blog, I will invite each week’s featured educator to join us for discussion around the lesson plan. The educator will provide the context for the video you saw, such as: what was the goal of the lesson? What do you think went well? If you were to teach it again, what would you do differently? I will also invite each teacher to post related rubrics, lesson plans, and other materials.
