Teacher-Development Overview: A Survey of Top ProgramsWhat happens in schools of education does make a difference in the classroom. Read a short introductory article or watch a brief introductory video.
What happens in schools of education does make a difference in the classroom. Read a short introductory article or watch a brief introductory video.
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Release Date: 9/1/2001
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Produced and Directed by
- Ken Ellis
- Jon Shenk, Actual Films
Content Staff:
- Sara Armstrong
- Diane Curtis
- Roberta Furger
- Paula Monsef
- Mark Sargent
Associate Producer:
- Leigh Iacobucci
- Megan Mylan
Editor:
- Karen Sutherland
Post Production:
- Nathaniel Higgs
- Morgan Ho
- Deirdre May
Camera Crew:
- Sam Allen
- Jon Shenk
- Robert O.Weller
- Michael Curtiss
- Kathryn Peterson
- Paul Rusnak
- Eric Williams
- Wes Sullivan
- Nathan Clap
Narrator:
- Kris Welch
Original Music:
- Ed Bogas
- © 2001
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- All rights reserved.
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What about teaching skills assessment?
As an educational/training consultant for both education and the private sector, I have found that doing a training needs assessment is vital to good professional development. What do teachers, schools or districts use to determine what teaching skill are in need of development?
Good stuff for my master's
Good stuff for my master's research paper on innovative teacher-preparation programs. But this video is already 10 years old...?
This one is an important one.
This one is an important one. Many teachers with the wrong attitude have ruined beautiful students. It really helps when the teacher shows he is willing to be a student too.
Also, that´s how things naturally are. You never stop learning.
Thanks.
Pedro from magos para fiestas
Teacher Inservice Needed
As I watched this video, I was excited to see that teachers are excited about being trained in their profession. It doesnt stop when we graduate from college. Our students change, core changes, and also technology changes over the years. We as educators need to continue to develop our skills of teaching by attending inservices monthly and yearly. We need to stay a head of our game so we can be better teachers and teach what is best for kids.
Teacher Inservice Needed
As I watched this video, I was excited to see that teachers are excited about being trained in their profession. It doesnt stop when we graduate from college. Our students change, core changes, and also technology changes over the years. We as educators need to continue to develop our skills of teaching by attending inservices monthly and yearly. We need to stay a head of our game so we can be better teachers and teach what is best for kids.
Teacher/Student collaboration
I really enjoyed the video, especially the part where the students are teaching the teacher and that is where I see myself. I don't see myself as tech-savvy yet, but I am always willing to keep learning!
Teacher preparation/ students teaching teachers
I think this video sheds light on how it is important for there to be a support system in place not only for the student, but for the teacher as well. To have a mentor teacher and a peer evaluator is very helpful to becoming effective in the classroom. I hear it all the time that the real test comes when you step into that classroom, it's like what you learned about the theories associated with education goes out the window.
Students teaching teachers, I think is a humbling experirnce for the teacher because the role has switched and the attention that is wanted from the student they have to give to the student who is teaching them.
teachers can't teach teaching--teaching teaches teaching
Wow--that makes so much sense. Just about all of my peers admit that their own teacher preparation programs didn't prepare them for actual classroom teaching.
Actual classroom teaching, it seems, is really the only way to prepare perspective teachers for actual classroom teaching.
I really enjoyed this video.
I really enjoyed this video. Not only did it show the importance of supportive mentors, it addresses the issue of students knowing more than teachers in the area of technology. What a simple idea - have the kids be the teachers! This not only helps the teacher but reinforces the subject for the student.
Teacher preparation programmes
There is an important point brought home that the teacher educators themselves should be actively involved in teaching children and sufficiently experienced in actually handling classes besides,of course, being well versed in the theory of pedagogy and the content of the curriculum,