What Should You Expect? Advice for New Teachers
Contributor: Erikson Lehman | Length : 5 | File type : Video
What will teaching be like? What will it require of you? Doug and Erikson describe the surprises new teachers sometimes encounter, and their suggestions for navigating the first years successfully.
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To Keep Their Attention, Keep Moving: Ways to Call on Students
Contributor: Denise Martin | Length : 5 | File type : Video
Do your instructional methods keep all of your students engaged? Denise Martin believes that, even during a lecture, each student should be paying attention. She demonstrates and explains several me... Read More
Technology and Our Children: Addressing a Crisis
Contributor: Gerald Miller | Length : 6 | File type : Video
Are you in control of the technology in your home? Does it control your children—and you? In this excerpt from his longer talk on the home's influence, Gerald challenges us to reckon with the cris... Read More
What Summer Can Do
Contributor: Leon Troyer | Length : 4 | File type : Video
Summer: Time to be outside, focusing on something other than the next day's classes. But fall, and the first days of school, will be here soon. Leon shares how he made lesson planning less overwhe... Read More
A Better Grasp of Grammar Use (Curriculum Review)
Contributor: Travis Zook | Length : 5 | File type : Video
Are your students growing in their grasp of English grammar? Do you, and they, enjoy the subject?Travis shares the benefits he and his students realized in using Grammar and Writing from Curtis ... Read More
The Teacher Is the School
Contributor: Jonas Sauder | Length : 4 | File type : Video
Are you aware of your influence?Methods, materials, and facilities: while these are important, Jonas underlines the influence of the teacher. In a talk to school leaders, he urges us to remember... Read More
More Than a Grade: Assessment as a Teaching Tool
Contributor: Brian J Martin | Length : 5 | File type : Video
Tests, quizzes, and gradebooks: these tools demonstrate to you what your students know. But how can they help your students? Brian encourages teachers to view assessments as more than a chance to ca... Read More
Guiding iGen through Commitment and Communication
Contributor: Norwood Shank | Length : 5 | File type : Video
Each generation faces the same battle: to serve God without distraction. For today's young people, Norwood observes, this battle is acute in two ways. We are tempted to substitute electronic communi... Read More
Building Fluency: How We Use the Barton System
Contributor: Yvonne King | Length : 7 | File type : Video
How does the Barton System enable small schools and tutors to improve students' fluency in reading and writing? Katie Groff and Yvonne King discuss the strengths of Barton and how their schools impl... Read More
Building Momentum with a Curriculum Review Committee
Contributor: Arlyn Nisly | Length : 7 | File type : Video
Does your school have a method for choosing curriculum? Does your method allow for thoughtful buy-in from the board, teachers, and patrons? In this video, Arlyn describes the process of evaluating... Read More
