Bell Hooks makes a compelling argument for the transformative powers of cultural criticism. She demonstrates how learning to think critically was central to her own self-transformation and how it can play a role in the students' quest for a sense of agency and identity. Includes footage from many films and music videos, and news coverage.
Drawing on 22 instructional (and inspirational) video clips, this comprehensive, easy-to-navigate DVD vividly conveys the inner workings of writing workshops in a variety of elementary classrooms. The two hours of live-from-the-classroom video clips are supported and enhanced by an optional voice-over coaching commentary from Lucy that explains the teaching moves and strategies.
'Burds-n-da-beez dispels myths By MARCI BECKING : MATTAWA' -- Filming for the Union of Ontario Indians HIVAIDS produced film Burds-n-dabeez, a film about the challenges youth face in today's world, wrapped up in October. The film will help raise awareness about sexual health and choosing a healthy lifestyle by using the Seven Grandfather Teachings. Burds-n-da-beez addresses social issues such as suicide, bullying, peer pressure and the importance of healthy relationships. It also had focus on the spiritual aspects of traditions that help keep youth strong like the women's Berry Fast and the excitement of Vision Quests ... Burds-n-da-beez is an educational film aimed at dispelling the myth that sexual knowledge encourages sexual action. It is my belief that when armed with the correct knowledge, courage and truth about their sexuality, youth will realize the importance of remaining healthy and respectful with their sexual relations," says Cotter.
Other important topics were also covered in the film including anatomy explanation, sexual diversity, and sexual rights. During the interview portion of the video, youths were asked to speak on the seven Grandfather teachings, and what they meant to each of them. One thing that stood out was the Courage" teaching, as it was this teaching that most youth mentioned. The cast identified they needed courage the most in their developing years while tackling pressures to be alcohol and drug free, abstain from having sexual relations until more mature in life, and also to have the courage to be proud of who they are and the fact that they are Anishinabe. The cast and crew included Sarah Louis, Brad Trudeau, Jason Harrison, Edmond Collins, Candace Dokis, Courtney Robinson, Sage and Jiig Petahtegoose, Nimkii Couchie, Joseph Owl, host Sid Bobb, Set assistant Patricia Campeau, Suzanne Campeau, Nicole Neiva, Maddison Cotter, Elder Mary Elliot, sound technician BJ Szabicot and Ed Regan of Ed Regan Productions.
This television series tells the history and prehistory of Canada, with dramatic recreations of historical events and including many hours of archival footage, documentary evidence from the native Canadians through British and French settlers to modern times.
... comprehending is an active process that occurs before, during, and after reading. Participants will see that proficient readers use a range of strategies when combining important information from text with their own ideas and background knowledge to arrive at new and different thinking. Participants will also consider the role of drama and talk play in the teaching of the reading comprehension strategy of synthesizing.
Today's classrooms are filled with learners whose strengths are as diverse as their needs. In order to teach all students effectively to build on strengths while zeroing in on areas that need more attention teachers must have an extensive repertoire of strategies. Based on assessment data, research, experience and professional observations, The Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat has selected a sampling of high-yield strategies to illustrate effective classroom practices.
The future of the world is perhaps being played out in an elementary school in Quebec, where a teacher is implementing a new teaching method aimed at preparing children to take up environmental challenges.
An exploration of what happens when experienced teachers talk to their students about lesbians and gay men. Students are asked to consider issues related to homosexuality at six elementary and middle schools. Footage of classroom activities and discussions are presented with students exploring questions and issues presented to them by teachers and guest lecturers who come into their classes. School-wide presentations, activity-days, and how these events affect faculty, parents and teachers are also discussed.
All three DVDS in the series show a collection of individual assessments with students ages 7 through 12. All of the assessments address students' ability to estimate, reason numerically, and compute in problem-solving situations. The one-on-one interviews on the tapes model for teachers the kinds of questions that are useful for gaining insights into how students are thinking and what they understand.
Opportunity use it. You've got to hustle or lose it. The remorseless credo of gangster life echoes through the neighbourhood. What drives a 10-year-old boy into a street gang? Mouse is a short film that realistically tells the compelling story of a child's descent into a world of crime and violence. An underworld governed by its own twisted rules and codes of honour. It also examines a mother's journey from denial to awful realization that her child has been claimed by the street. Mouse reveals the deadly reality facing many young people that is spreading through every corner of our society. Created by educators and law enforcement experts, the film is essential viewing for children, parents, and communities in the prevention of gang recruitment. The DVD is accompanied by a comprehensive guide that includes curriculum activities for building inclusive communities as well as specific information to combat gang recruitment.
Networks provide educators with opportunities to interact and learn from and on behalf of each other, both within the boundaries of their own schools and boards or far beyond those traditional boundaries. These networks take many forms and can include members who represent one role or a variety of roles. Networks operate on the belief that when professionals come together and share their expertise, they build new knowledge, and that new understanding leads to a change in practice that will result in improved practice and student achievement. This webcast will feature researcher Stephen Katz, who shares insights based on his experience and his research into what makes networks effective. It will also introduce various networks, each unique in their composition and operation. Webcast participants will share their goals, challenges, successes, and lessons learned from their network experiences.
We live in the information age. Over 80% of the texts we encounter or create daily are non-fiction. It is essential that students develop the skills with which to make and convey meaning using non-fiction texts of all types. Learning how to write non-fiction allows students to explore the depth and breadth of the world as it relates to their interests, lives, and the world beyond the classroom. They develop their own voice and learn how to form an opinion based on evidence. Students learn to assume a critical stance when responding to or creating media. Looking closely at media techniques, language structures, patterns, and word choice helps students develop into competent communicators. This webcast will look at the teaching of non-fiction writing in four junior classrooms. You will see how teachers create environments that value talk and interaction, flexible groupings, active engagement, and collaborative learning.
The film, by Emmy and Writers Guild award winning film and television writer/director Carol Black ("The Wonder Years") poses an almost heretical challenge to the long-unquestioned assumption that the western model of education and schooling improves lives wherever it goes.
When we think about schools, it usually evokes images of places separated from the larger community, place where students go to learn. Occasionally during the school day students venture outside classroom walls to take field trips meant to enhance the academic rigor of their classroom experience, but the classroom as the primary vehicle for educational success remains largely unchallenged despite often questionable levels of achievement. Yet, a few public schools across the country are trying a different approach to engaging students in the learning process, using the community and neighborhoods where students live as classrooms - creating not only a different type of learning environment, but a different kind of student. Schools That Change Communities focuses on a diverse range of K-12 public schools in five states - Massachusetts, Maryland, South Dakota, Oregon, and California - that have the potential to refocus the national debate around the direction educational reform should take.
In this wonderful new program hosted by Curve Lake First Nations entertainer Missy Knott, students learn of the history of The Seven Sacred Teachings and meet Coast Tsminshian First Nations Elder and Educator, Shannon Thunderbird who delightfully shares and explains each teaching. With her flair for storytelling, Shannon describes the virtues of being a good person, taking care of one another and taking care of the Earth. An invaluable lesson for all.
This video workshop provides a methodology framework for teaching social studies, with a focus on creating effective citizens. The eight video programs feature K-5 teachers exploring social studies themes, theories of learning, teaching strategies, and ways to connect social studies to the world beyond the classroom. With the companion Web site and guide, this video workshop provides a stimulating learning experience for individual teachers or professional development groups.
Assessment has an impact on student learning. It influences the teacher's instructional decisions and informs the student as to his or her strengths, needs, and next steps. Assessment is a complex process and it is challenging to ensure that assessment is fair, valid and consistent for all students. One way to work toward consistently effective assessment practices is through a process called teacher moderation. During this webcast, you will explore the teacher moderation process through the experiences of three Junior-division teachers as they come together to compare, confirm, and adjust judgments about their students' work. You will see how they collaborate to establish a shared understanding of the levels of achievement and of what learning or gaps in learning are revealed in each student's work. After analyzing the students' work samples, conferring with each other, and referring to anchors, rubrics, curriculum documents, and support materials, the teachers collaboratively determine where students should be and then "design down" to plan the next steps required to move the students forward in their learning.
There is a growing body of research and evidence-based findings that identify summarization as one of the essential skills that improves reading comprehension, writing proficiency and student achievement in general. The skill of summarization needs to be explicitly taught, in all subject areas in order for students to effectively create and interpret increasingly complex texts. The teacher, after considering assessment data, curriculum expectations, relevant research, and what she knows about how her students learn best, decides to focus on teaching summarization. She differentiates instruction, engages in on-going assessment, integrates talk, and checks for understanding. This teacher is fully present and active in the teaching learning cycle. As you watch this webcast, think about the teacher's intentional decisions that set her students up for success.
Shows the many different shapes that families take today. Children describe their own families and explain concepts like "birth mom," "mixed race," "gay and lesbian," and "stepdad."
For centuries the human brain has been thought of as incapable of fundamental change. People suffering from neurological defects, brain damage or strokes were usually written off as hopeless cases. But recent and continuing research into the human brain is radically changing how we look at the potential for neurological recovery. The human brain, as we are now quickly learning, has a remarkable ability to change itself - to rewire itself. Based upon the best-selling book by Toronto psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Norman Doidge, this documentary presents a strong case for reconsidering how we view the human brain. Dr. Doidge travels throughout North America to meet some of the pioneering researchers who made revolutionary discoveries about the plasticity of the brain. He also visits with the people who have been most affected by this research - the patients whose lives have forever been changed - people once thought of as incurable who are now living normal lives.
Known in scientific circles as "neuroplasticity", this radical new approach to the brain yields spectacular results in bringing the human brain back to life
The teaching-learning critical pathway (TLCP) is one model for learning and inquiry that holds a great deal of promise for improving student learning. In Ontario, it has been adapted and piloted with a number of Ontario Focused Intervention Partnership (OFIP) schools where many superintendents, principals and teachers credit improvements in student achievement to its use.
This remarkable box set tribute for the 400th anniversary of Québec City gives Canadians, especially teachers and elementary, intermediate and secondary students, the opportunity to experience a fascinating journey to the heart of our history. It contains nine NFB films, encouraging viewers to take a fresh look at the past. User guides expand on the major themes raised by the fascinating history of Québec City.
The documentary, through statistical evidence and human stories, makes the point that indeed there is an issue, and many will argue a crisis, to be faced in our Canadian schools. Violence against teachers is growing and must be confronted if we are to restore our classrooms to the learning environments must have.
This DVD explores the literacy crisis unfolding in Canada's public school libraries focussing on two schools, King's Masting in Mississauga and Ogden Community School in Thunder Bay, who are applying for Indigo's Love of Reading program.