Literacy Video Clips - Flash Video & Downloads
We are privileged to have the opportunity to visit Ontario classrooms as well as professional learning sessions through these video clips. They show examples of a range of implementation stages and are not necessarily meant to demonstrate exemplary practices. Rather, they provide a unique opportunity for us to analyze what we see and hear with a view to moving our own learning forward. We sincerely thank all those educators and students who have provided us with windows into their thinking and practice.
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| Boys’ Voices: Technology in the Classroom One of the strategy recommendations in Me Read? And How! is Get the Net. This video demonstrates how boys in a grade 7/8 classroom respond to the implementation of various technologies with engaging enthusiasm. The teacher uses technology to engage students in reading, writing, and oral communication in a collaborative learning environment. |
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8:20 min
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MP4 128 M
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| Exploring Metacognitive Habits of Mind This video, produced by Greater Essex County District School Board, highlights teachers of grades 7, 8, and 9 as they explore metacognitive habits of mind with their students. With commentary from Dr. Barrie Bennett teachers, administrators, and professional learning facilitators will enhance their understanding of metacognition "as a powerful approach for promoting a focus on thinking skills in literacy across all disciplines." (Thinking Metacognitively, Literacy GAINS 2011) |
FLV 35:59 min
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MP4 625 M
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| Learning-Focused Conversations and Shared Reading in Grade 12 History In this video, learning partners collaborate to improve student understanding of complex texts in a grade 12 history class. Instruction is focused on ‘talk to the text’ reading strategy which teaches students how to deconstruct a dense text and improve their understanding of history content. |
FLV 12:32 min
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MP4 229 M
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| Lesson Study: Professional Learning in a Secondary School In this video, secondary science teachers engage in Lesson Study, a professional learning model that engages teachers in systematically examining their practice with the goal of becoming more effective. |
FLV 9:04 min
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MP4 68 M
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| One Approach to Questions |
FLV 15:25 min
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MP4 102 M
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| Professional Learning Community – Focusing on Think Aloud An interdisciplinary team of teachers engage as a professional learning community with a goal to develop a deeper understanding of thinking aloud and using this instructional practice in the classroom for specific purposes. Their conversation provides an overview of the 6 different Think Aloud strategies that will be demonstrated. |
FLV 9:09 min
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MP4 117 M
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| Promoting Meaningful Student Involvement – Listening to What Students Have to Say Chris MacDonald, a student at Riverside Secondary School in Windsor, provides insights into the effectiveness of various strategies used by his teachers, including K-W-L, think aloud, and accountable talk. Chris comments on how his teachers' instructional strategies help him to engage more actively with subject content, make connections, and understand material. |
FLV 6:12 min
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MP4 64 M
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| Shifting How we Use Questions: Understanding Question Words This video, produced by Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board, highlights two teachers co-teaching a grade nine class of students with the goal for students to develop a deeper understanding of question words and how they are related to the processing involved in responding to a question. Classroom teachers and professional learning facilitators can use this video to enhance their understanding of the vocabulary used in questioning and to be able to more precisely use questions with students. |
FLV 5:17 min
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MP4 80 M
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| Summarizing and Notetaking in Secondary Science In this video, learning partners collaborate to enhance learning in a secondary science classroom by focusing on two key strategies, summarizing and notetaking. |
FLV 15:17 min
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MP4 140 M
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