
Are you new to teaching? Do you want to refine your teaching strategies after reflecting on your practice? One of the best ways to improve is to watch veteran teachers guide their students in the learning process. We encourage you to observe teachers in your school and to look to Learner.org for great classroom moments you can watch on your own time. Take ideas from our workshops that show real teachers effectively engaging with their own students. Here are a few highlights with additional resources listed below by subject:
Making Meaning in Literature shows teachers facilitating discussions to create a literary community in their classrooms. For example, in program 4, teacher Tanya Schnabl’s students develop discussion questions and connect their experiences with the dilemmas in the assigned texts as they explore “government limits and personal freedoms.”
See examples of every step of an inquiry-based lesson, from fostering a learning community, to designing how students will explore the materials, to collecting and assessing data, in Learning Science Through Inquiry. In workshop 6, “Bring It All Together: Processing for Meaning During Inquiry,” watch the teacher draw out meaning from students’ observations of their soil decomposition experiment. Shuffle to 8:42 in the video.
Find ideas for teaching about civic engagement in Making Civics Real. Teacher Matt Johnson leads his Constitutional Law 12th graders in applying what they’ve learned to new hypothetical cases that mirror actual students’ rights cases presented to the Supreme Court in workshop 8, “Rights and Responsibilities of Students.”
Other examples of effective teaching:
Language Arts and Literature Classrooms-
Reading & Writing in the Disciplines
Teaching Multicultural Literature: A Workshop for the Middle Grades
Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers
The Expanding Canon: Teaching Multicultural Literature in High School
Mathematics Classrooms-
Reading & Writing in the Disciplines
Teaching Math: A Video Library, K-4, 5-8, 9-12
Insights Into Algebra 1: Teaching for Learning (high school)
Science Classrooms-
Reading & Writing in the Disciplines
Science in Focus: Force and Motion (K-8 teachers)
Reactions in Chemistry (high school)
Foreign Language Classrooms-
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices
Social Studies/History Classrooms-
Reading & Writing in the Disciplines
The Economics Classroom: A Workshop for Grade 9-12 Teachers
Social Studies in Action: A Teaching Practices Library K-12
Arts Classrooms-
Connecting With the Arts: A Teaching Practices Library, 6-8
The Art of Teaching the Arts: A Workshop for High School Teachers