Videotapes

Developing Independent Learners: A Reading/Writing Workshop Approach

Linda Dorn & Carla Soffos, copyright ©2003 by Stenhouse Publishers

The goal of teaching is to promote independent learning so reading and writing becomes a lifelong habit.  As children become better readers, they also become better writers.  A workshop format provides a literacy context for building connections between the reading and writing processes.   In this two-part video series, Donnie Skinner and Vicki Altland demonstrate how they implemented reading and writing workshops in two Arkansas schools.

Read, Write, and Talk: A Practice to Enhance Comprehension

Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis, copyright© 2005 by Stenhouse Publishers

This lively video invites you to join Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis, authors of Strategies That Work, in an intermediate-grade reading workshop where students engage in real-world literacy.  Read, Write, and Talk is an on-going practice, not a stand-alone lesson.  Once students have learned this process, they can apply it across the curriculum and throughout the year, with science and social studies reading, literature study, and even with text books.   It is an authentic process that replicates what real readers do, and supports and encourages kids to ask more questions, ponder information, and better understand what they read.

Strategy Instruction in Action

Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis, copyright© 2002by Stenhouse Publishers

In this four-tape video series, Stephanie and Anne invite you to join them in the classrooms of Leslie Blauman, Mary Buerger, and Debbie Miller, three teachers with whom they have worked for many years.  All teach reading comprehension in the context of reading workshop, modeling their thinking and giving students ample time o practice so they learn what proficient readers do to make sense of the text.

Classroom Impact:  Solving the Classroom Management Puzzle

Susan Thomas Kelly

Differentiating Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities

William N. Bender

A 40-minute VHS video that features a presentation and narration from author William N. Bender, classroom footage of teachers differentiating instruction with students in a variety of settings, graphics of brain imaging, and key points.

Instructional Strategies for the Differentiated Classroom

Learning Contracts

Intelligence Preferences - This video demonstrates how to address students’ learning preferences by offering students several avenues (analytical, creative, and practical tasks) to the same learning goals, so they can be more successful at reaching the goals.

Tiered Assignments - This video shows how to respond to students’ varied readiness levels by offering them activities at different levels of difficulty so all students are appropriately challenged and supported.

Complex Instruction - This video explains how to engage groups of students in a challenging, real-world task that demands the unique intellectual strengths and talents of each student for the group to succeed

Raft Assignments - This video shows how offering different writing assignments designed for students’ varied readiness levels and interests helps students to focus on writing and reasoning while coming to understand ideas essential to a topic

Centers - This video demonstrates how to address students’ different needs by offering multiple tasks, addressing learning standards at varied levels of difficulty, and designing learning activities around students' varied interests

Web Quests - This  video models how to guide students on an inquiry-based activity where they investigate resources on the Internet and produce a product. Through scaffolding, offering multiple resources at different levels of complexity, and other techniques, a WebQuest can be an effective strategy for helping students at different readiness levels and with varied interests and learning profiles to focus on using and making sense of information.

 

Differentiated Instruction - Understanding By Design - What Works in Schools - The experts speak about these three powerhouse educational approaches and share the underpinnings of their work and the implications for educators who use these models during a panel discussion recorded live at the 2008 ASCD Summer Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.  Carol Ann Tomlinson on Differentiated Instruction; Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe on Understanding by Design; and Robert J. Marzano on What Works in Schools.

 

Differentiated Instruction

Video 1 - Creating Multiple Paths for Learning

Video 2 - Instructional and Management Strategies

A Close-up Look at Teaching Reading Focusing on Children and Our Goals,

Sharon Taberski

Sharon Taberski’s classic video series takes you inside Sharon’s classroom and shows how to help students become fluent, independent readers by assessing their reading in authentic ways, demonstrating effective reading strategies, creating opportunities for children to practice strategies, and providing genuine responses.

Video 1 –Independent Reading and Reading Share 

Sharon begins by explaining the importance of materials and room organization. Then she starts her day sitting alongside readers, learning as much as she can about their progress. During independent reading her students get many opportunities to practice their reading strategies before reconvening to discuss what they have learned about themselves as readers.

Video 2 –Read Aloud and Shared Reading

During the meeting portion of the reading workshop, Sharon demonstrates reading strategies for the children as she reads aloud. Later, she guides them in shared reading. During both, she provides opportunities to respond to literature, demonstrates effective reading strategies, and teaches skills in a supportive, meaningful context.

Video 3 - Reading Conferences

Sharon focuses on ways to both confer with children to assess their reading needs and use that information to inform subsequent teaching. She highlights several assessment methods, including retellings, reading discussions, and running records, then demonstrates how she records her observations and plans follow-up lessons.

Video 4 –Guided Reading

Expanding guided reading to situations where small groups work on specific reading strategies, Sharon shows how to group children for varied lengths of time in response to specific reading needs. Following up on her assessments, Sharon focuses on one strategy at a time, provides opportunities for practice, and offers support as she nudges readers toward independence.

Think Nonfiction!: Modeling Reading and Research

Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis, copyright © 2003 by Stenhouse Publishers 

In Think Nonfiction! The focus is on comprehension strategies for gaining information—specifically noticing new learning, asking questions, and determining importance.  We watch Steph and Anne teach alongside Barb as she launches a nonfiction study and helps kids learn how to read for information, choose a topic, and do research.

Meeting the Challenge:  Teaching Reading 3-5

Professional Development Resources For the Improvement of Reading, Statewide Reading Initiative        Staff Development Resources, Illinois State Department of Education, Springfield, Illinois, copyright © 2001, by Center for the Application of Information Technologies, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois 

Volume 1 - Creating Independent, Motivated Readers- Reading as a Meaning-Getting Process.  In this video, procedures for teaching comprehension strategies within the framework of guided reading will be explored.

Volume 2 - Supporting Vocabulary, Word Analysis and Word Study.  In this video, numerous strategies will be demonstrated for both word analysis and word strategy.  

Volume 3 - Supporting Readers in the Content Areas.   In this video, teachers capitalize on opportunities across the subject areas to increase student interaction with the text and foster the transfer of strategies as tools for learning in a variety of disciplines.

Volume 4 - Helping Children Make the Reading-Writing Connection.  This video will enable viewers to develop an understanding of the connections between reading and writing processes and to use that knowledge to further develop students reading and writing abilities.     

DVDs

A day of words: Integrating Word Work in the Intermediate Grades

Max Brand, copyright ©2005 by Stenhouse Publishers

In the two-part DVD series, A Day of Words, fifth-grade teacher Max Brand demonstrates how he helps students search for, study, and celebrate words.  Through Max’s emphasis on noting words systematically in every curricular area, his students learn that word work is about more than just gaining spelling skills or vocabulary knowledge, and become more naturally accomplished in their understanding and use of words in all contexts. 

At Work in the Differentiated Classroom

Carol Ann Tomlinson, and Leslie J. Kiernan program developers. Copyright © 2001 by the Association for   Supervision and Curriculum Development

Tape 1: Planning Curriculum and Instruction;

Tape 2: Managing the Classroom;

Tape 3: Teaching for Learner Success.

This video-based professional development series consists of three videotapes and a facilitator’s guide.  Tape 1 examines planning curriculum and instruction in a differentiated classroom.  Tape 2 provides information on managing a differentiated classroom.  Tape 3 focuses on the teacher in a differentiated classroom. 

Seeing Possibilities: An Inside View of Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grades  3-5

Lucy Calkins & Colleagues, copyright © 2007 by firsthand/Heinemann

Two (2) hours of mini lessons, conferences, whole class shares, and voice-over coaching commentary from Lucy Calkins.   This DVD vividly conveys the inner workings of writing workshops in a variety of elementary classrooms.

Big Lessons from Small Writers

Lucy Calkins and The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Community, copyright © 2005 by firsthand/Heinemann

This DVD is two (2) hours of video clips.  It is a comprehensive, easy-to-navigate instructional resource that presents 22 video clips of Lucy and others teaching mini lessons, conferences, and whole class shares—with optional voice-over coaching commentary from Lucy.

Teaching Reading: Strategies from Successful Classrooms

A six-part national Teacher training video series.  Produced by: Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign. http://csr.ed.uiuc.edu

       Video 1 - Emergent Literacy                                

       Video 2 - The Reading/Writing Connection          

       Video 3 - Teaching Word Identification                

       Video 4 – Literacy in Content Area Instruction

      Video 5 – Fostering a Literate Culture

       Video 6 – Teaching Reading Comprehension:  Experience and     Text                                                              

Building Adolescent Readers

Kelly Gallagher, copyright © 2005 by Stenhouse Publishers

Presenting examples of both small- and whole-group discussions, Building Adolescent Readers demonstrates how to engage students with a variety of texts, teaching them what it means to be a good reader.

What Every Teacher Should Know About Reading Comprehension Instruction

P. David Pearson, Stephanie Harvey, and Anne Goudvis, copyright © 2005 by Heinemann

Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis give teachers, administrators, and literacy specialists the chance to listen in as they interview renowned reading researcher and comprehension theorist P. David Pearson to get the inside scoop on the research behind high-quality comprehension instruction.

Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right-Using It Well

Educational Testing Service (ETS), copyright © 2006 by ETS

Listening.  Learning.  Leading.  Video Segments: Demonstrations and Presentations.

Thoughtful Reading: Teaching Comprehension to Adolescents

Chris Tovani, copyright(c)2006 by Stenhouse Publishers

This four-part series shows Chris working with a wide range of students, from college-bound  seniors to students who have been referred to her classroom because of their struggles with  reading. You'll see Chris leading the whole class, launching small-group activities, thinking through instructional design, teaching individual students, and assessing learner needs and strengths. The series includes examples of how to:

• design small-group instruction;
• teach students to work together in groups;
• initiate one-on-one conferences with students;
• teach comprehension strategies to the whole class;
• help students learn to monitor their reading through notes, logs, and discussions;
• create "comprehension constructors" and other instruction tools that link reading, writing, and thinking;
• promote student independence through whole-class discussions and student presentations;
• provide a range of genres to meet the needs of diverse students.

Comprehending Content: Reading Across the Curriculum, Grades 6-12

Chris Tovani, copyright (c)2006 by Stenhouse Publishers

In this video program, high school teacher Chris Tovani brings viewers into her school and classroom and shows how she and her colleagues are meeting the challenge of improving students' reading skills across the curriculum. The programs include examples of Chris working with students using texts from multiple disciplines in her classroom, as well as collaborating with colleagues throughout the school. Accompanying the Comprehending Content video is a detailed viewing guide with sample workshop activities, reading materials used by students on the program, focus questions for viewing, and tips for using the related book, Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?, with the video in a study group setting.

The Common Sense of Differentiation – Meeting Specific Learner Needs in the Regular Classroom

Program 1, Discovering Learner Needs, examines how teachers identify and understand learner needs that can affect students' performance. Classroom scenes show how teachers can determine their students' learning needs by:

• Assessing students' status related to the prerequisites for a particular unit
• Pre-assessing students' knowledge, understanding, and skills that are the focus of an upcoming unit
• Using ongoing assessment to understand each student's progress toward essential goals
• Assessing for insights about students' interests and learning preferences

Program 2, Techniques for Adjusting Instruction, to help teachers explore techniques for addressing students' diverse learning needs. Teachers in the video explain and demonstrate how they determine "clusters" of learning needs among students in their classroom and use a range of techniques to help students draw on their strengths and overcome learning problems.

Program 3, Classroom Routines, explores routines that help teachers address learner needs in ways that are comfortable and predictable for both teachers and students. Scenes from elementary and secondary classrooms demonstrate classroom routines that anticipate and address variance in learner needs and support differentiation. Teachers explain why they use particular routines and how they taught the routines to their students.

Moving Forward with Understanding By Design

Throughout the program, UbD experts Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe and practitioners describe the critical elements of getting started and succeeding with UbD. Interviews with educators who have implemented UbD district- and statewide illuminate keys to success, including

How to introduce UbD through professional development workshops where teachers work together on applying UbD templates and planning tools to an existing lesson

How to lead school teams in using backward design and essential questions in framing curriculum and assessment

What to expect to see in classrooms where teachers are beginning to implement UbD and in classrooms where teachers have used UbD strategies for many years

How to support teachers as they practice the seven design principles of effective learning experiences, known as W.H.E.R.E.T.O.

Differentiated Instruction in Action 

Middle School - Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and classroom teachers as they bring Differentiated Instruction to life in this practical, easily implemented Professional Development Program for the Middle School level.

Carol Ann Tomlinson guides viewers as they observe classroom examples of the non-negotiables of Differentiated Instruction. Use the integrated professional development plan, including accompanying PowerPoint presentation and handouts, to empower educators as they lead for student success.

High School - Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and classroom teachers as they bring Differentiated Instruction to life in this practical, easily implemented Professional Development Program for the High School level.

Carol Ann Tomlinson guides viewers as they observe classroom examples of the non-negotiables of Differentiated Instruction. Use the integrated professional development plan, including accompanying PowerPoint presentation and handouts, to empower educators as they lead for student success.

CD-ROMs 

Differentiating Content for Gifted Learners in Grades 6-12

Susan Winebrenner, by freespirit publishing

This stand-alone CD-ROM gives you everything you need to start differentiating content for your gifted or high-ability middle school and high school students.

A CD-ROM of Customizable Forms for Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom, revised, expanded, updated edition, Susan Winebrenner, free sprit publishing. 

An invaluable classroom tool, this CD-ROM includes all of the reproducible forms from Susan Winebrenner’s revised, expanded, and updated edition o Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom, plus a variety of additional extensions menus in several subject areas—more than 80 forms in all.

A CD-ROM of Customizable Forms for Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom, Susan Winebrenner, free spirit publishing.  Help your students with learning difficulties, and help yourself, with this valuable and timesaving CD-ROM companion to the revised and updated classic book by Susan Winebrenner, Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom.  This CD-ROM includes all of the reproducible forms from the book, plus numerous additional Content Organization Charts and Vocabulary Attributes Charts in several subject areas—over 90 forms in all.

Differentiated Grading – Why Fair Isn’t Always Equal

Rick Wormeli

Assessment Perspectives and Practicalities (with Emphasis on the Differentiated Classroom)

Rick Wormeli, Grades 6-12