Featured Teaching Channel Videos
Featured Teaching Channel Videos
Part of a new editorial partnership, this page features a weekly selection from the Teaching Channel, a nonprofit organization that provides high-quality videos on inspiring and effective teaching practices. Watch and share with colleagues.
Keep it or Junk it: A Student-Run Lesson
See how four 5th grade students run a class lesson on the Jamestown settlement while their teacher helps to facilitate.
Grading with the Common Core
An 11th grade teacher in Mountain View, Calif., demonstrates how she has changed her grading practices in response to the Common Core State Standards.
Improving Participation With Talk Moves
See how a 4th grade teacher in Renton, Wash., improves participation in her classroom using Talk Moves, a method designed to encourage collaboration among students.
Reasoning About Division
Check out how this math teacher builds her students' reasoning skills to help them gain a better understanding of division.
Socratic Seminars: Patience & Practice
Watch how a teacher utilizes the Socratic seminar method in a classroom discussion on poetic language versus prose.
Assess and Plan With Exit Tickets
In this video, a 3rd grade teacher in Renton, Wash., demonstrates the use of exit tickets to assess student learning and to help plan future lessons.
Sharing Common Core Language With Students
Build an open and engaging classroom environment by talking about the Common Core State Standards with your students. Here are a few ways to let your students know the goals of the common-standards initiative, and how you will be teaching to it.
Using Video to Improve Practice: Do It Yourself!
See how one teacher uses a Flipcam to record herself teaching and reflect on her personal growth.
Arguing the Pros and Cons of Teen Driving
Collaborative discussions are a big part of the Common Core. In this video, a teacher leads small- and large-group collaborative discussions in the classroom on the topic of teen driving.
Reading Like a Historian
By turning students into history investigators, teachers help them develop critical thinking skills and increase student engagement.
Learning From Mistakes
Discover a new classroom routine to help clarify concepts. This 8th grade math class uses a quick warm-up to clarify certain math concepts and get students in the right framework for the lesson to come.
A Real-World Geometry Project
Take the biggest (and the smallest) table challenge: This whole-class geometry lesson gives students a new perspective on area and perimeter. Covers the practice and content standards under the Common Core.
Vocabulary Paint Chips
Add a little color to vocabulary lessons: This video shows how teachers can use paint chips as visual aides to help students better understand difficult words. Applies to Common Core standards on determining the meanings of unknown and multiple-meaning words.
When a Lesson Goes Wrong
Lesson plans sometimes fail. It happens to all teachers. But how can teachers quickly modify lesson plans for the next class? This video offers some tips, using a high school English class as an example.
Access selected articles, e-newsletters and more!
Viewed
Emailed
Recommended
Commented
Sponsored Whitepapers
• Best Practices in Information Management, Reporting and Analytics for Education
• Smart infrastructure report to get your district ready for future IT needs.
• Integrating Social and Emotional RTI to Improve Student Performance
• Taming the wild west: How America’s third largest school district manages PCs, Macs, and iPads
• Overcoming the Odds: Getting Every Student to College YES Prep Shares Its Success Story
- Principal
- Roaring Fork School District, Carbondale, CO
- Charter School Director (Head of School)
- International Preparatory Academy, Detroit, MI
- Principal
- Chattahoochee Hills Charter School, Multiple Locations
- Tutors
- Hartford Public Schools, Hartford, CT
- Part-Time Teachers - Special Education Department
- Hartford Public Schools, Hartford, CT