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21st-Century Skills: Promoting Creativity and Innovation in the Classroom

(Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2009), 15 page(s)

This program visits dynamic classrooms to show how to promote student creativity and innovation through curriculum and instruction. It teaches how to foster student expression through multiple forms of media and engage students in tasks that require open problem solving and creative thinking. The DVD also explains...

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The Act of Teaching

(John Wiley & Sons, 2007), 1 hour 2 mins, 62 page(s)

Featuring Nancy Houfek, the Head of Voice and Speech for the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University, this DVD teaches university instructors how to improve their presentation skills. It emphasizes the importance of communication with the whole self.

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Advanced Style, Structure, and Tone

(Discovery Channel School, 2006), 52 mins, 52 page(s)

This DVD presents strategies for incorporating a variety of sentence and paragraph structures into written works. It explains that a writer’s voice and tone are revealed through stylistic devices. Discovery Enterprises.

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Advanced Writing

(Discovery Channel School, 2006), 1 hour 35 mins, 95 page(s)

Examining the elements of advanced writing, this DVD discusses prewriting skills, drafting and revising, and persuasive, reflective, descriptive, and biographical writing. It also looks at strategies for writing effective business letters. Discovery Enterprises.

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The Age of Reason: Cognitive Development During the School Years

(Coastline Community College, 2003), 30 mins, 30 page(s)

This DVD shows how children’s thought processes become more sophisticated and logical during the school years. It discusses Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and introduces Kohlberg’s stages of moral reasoning.

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Aggression in Young Children: The Interactive Guide to Observing, Understanding, and Intervening

(National Film Board of Canada, 2010), 4 hours, 240 page(s)

This program explores normal and abnormal aggression in children. It teaches how to observe a child’s behavior and explains how to intervene in problem situations.

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The Art and Science of Teaching

(Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2008), 64 page(s)

This set provides a framework for implementing the comprehensive teaching approach described in The Art and Science of Teaching by Robert J. Marzano. It explains the scientific basis for effective teaching and introduces teacher-level factors that influence student achievement. ASCD.

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The Art of Questioning

(Training Point), 29 page(s)

This DVD teaches how to be interesting, engaging, and effective when asking questions. It differentiates between open and closed questions, covers questioning in a group situation, explains how to use questions to motivate others, and considers the use of silence.

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Assessment for 21st-Century Learning

(Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2010), 106 page(s)

This set shows how to prepare students for success in a globalized, interconnected, and digital world. Featuring Jay McTighe, the set explains how to discover the skills and competencies that students need to succeed, explores effective assessments, and shows how schools and districts can assess what is valuable,...

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Barriers to Employment Success

(JIST Career Solutions, 2009), 51 page(s)

Considering such challenges to finding employment as unreliable transportation, a lack of education or experience, and feelings of anger or stress, this DVD teaches how to overcome barriers to career success. It outlines the five categories of employment obstacles that most often inhibit job seekers.

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