High School ELA Video Resources
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In this video, Penny Kittle, author of Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing , has writing conferences with three students with different needs.
Length: 10 minutes Teacher: Penny Kittle Grade level: High School Location: North Conway, New Hampshire |
In this video, Ms. Wessling demonstrates a scaffold – comic strip templates – to assist students’ comprehension of and engagement with a complex non-fiction text. Students are in non-fiction book groups, beginning to read full-length non-fiction texts, such as Chew on This and Blood Diamonds.
Length: 8 minutes Teacher: Sarah Brown Wessling Grade level: 10th grade Location: Johnston, Iowa |
In this video, Ms. Wessling reviews the model of the gradual release of responsibility and demonstrates a lesson using the model in a lesson focused on analyzing figurative language in Metamorphosis.
Length: 5 minutes Teacher: Sarah Brown Wessling Grade level: 10th grade Location: Johnston, Iowa |
In this video, Professor Carol Dweck shares some of the research she has conducted on how to teach students to have a growth mindset as opposed to a fixed mindset in order to make way for learning.
Length: 23 minutes Teacher: Carol Dweck Grade level: ALL Location: Young Minds 2013 Conference |
This is an abbreviated version of Professor Carol Dweck sharing some of the research she has conducted on how to teach students to have a growth mindset as opposed to a fixed mindset in order to make way for learning.
Length: 10 minutes Teacher: Carol Dweck Grade level: ALL Location: New York, New York |
Check out these videos highlighting the use of digital technology in the classroom!
In this video, high school students write collaboratively using Google Docs.
Length: 2 minutes Grade Level: 9-12 Speaker: Sarah Brown Wessling School: Johnston Senior High School Location: Johnston, Iowa In this video, students use technology to build communication skills.
Length: 2 minutes Grade Level: ALL Teacher: Jo Paraiso Organization: Oakland Unified School District |