LibGuides: DVD Collections: Education & Teaching

Education

7 secrets of savvy students: study smarter Teaches college success tactics.
Call Number: DVD 852.00
Publication Date: 2006, 36 min.
Academic success for Dartmouth College students Shows college students various ways to effectively study and learn.
Call Number: DVD 1646.01 - DVD 1646.05
Publication Date: 2003, 56 min.
American driver improvement Interactive traffic safety course that can be taken at home for traffic ticket dismissal and insurance reduction. Testing may be done by phone or on the Internet. The 6 hour course is broken into six segments, each followed by an interactive segment and a 10 minute break.
Call Number: DVD 487.00
Publication Date: 2004, 6 hrs.
Are you teaching with style? Learn how to design courses for diverse learning styles, assess your teaching in terms of learning styles, use multiple intelligence and personality-type tools to facilitate student success.
Call Number: DVD 999.02
Publication Date: 2007, 62 min.
Autism, a world apart Examines the lives of three children with autism, focusing on the strain on their families and how special education can help. Presents a brief history of the diagnosis and treatment of autism.
Call Number: DVD 652.00
Publication Date: 2003, 53 min.
Award-winning tools, tips and techniques for online instruction This seminar is for the experienced online teacher. It features successful teaching strategies and demos that award-winning instructors have found to be their best practices. Examples of strategies presented include: ideas for going outside the restrictions of CMS; tools for student-centered instruction; ideas for linking classes worldwide; creating content that is not just content driven; social networking/community building mechanisms; and rubrics for good student assignments.
Call Number: DVD 999.11
Publication Date: 2009, 44 min.
Beyond F.A.T. city: a look back, a look ahead Offers practical strategies and inspirational advice for teachers and parents of children with learning disabilities who constantly struggle with Frustration, Anxiety, and Tension (F.A.T.).
Call Number: DVD 457.00
ISBN: 0793690102
Publication Date: 2005, 90 min.
Break throughs: how to reach students with autism Karen Sewell, a special education teacher, displays her experience in dealing with autistic children by working successfully with a 3-year-old girl.
Call Number: DVD 739.00
Publication Date: 2002, 25 min.
Course redesign This seminar will not only take a look at the broad picture of course redesign, but will look at a state project, several specific course redesigns, and a single class redesign. Featured are: an interview with Dr. Carol Twigg, Executive Director of the National Center for Academic Transformation; the Texas Course Redesign Project (history course at the University of North Texas); English course collaboration between the Dallas County Community District and Texas Tech University; and a nursing class module.
Call Number: DVD 999.06
Publication Date: 2008, 59 min.
Curriculum redesign This seminar introduces the redesign process and features several ongoing successful redesigned curriculums. Provides departments and faculty with ideas and suggestions on how to implement or expand their own redesign projects.
Call Number: DVD 999.04
Publication Date: 2008, 63 min.
Developing the gifts & talents of ALL students Shows how schools have modified curricula, using gifted education teaching practices to accommodate all students' varying interests, learning styles, and academic strengths. Advocates the "school enrichment model, " an approach that focuses on applying, rather than assimilating, knowledge.
Call Number: DVD 789.00
Publication Date: 2007, 35 min.
DUI Dead in 5 seconds A realistic portrayal of drinking and its effects through a montage of images, some graphic, and interviews with people whose lives were affected by drunk driving accidents.
Call Number: DVD 1476.00
ISBN: 9781594437281
Publication Date: 2007, 18 min.
Dyslexia : a different kind of mind Explains how dyslexia has come to be understood to be a biologically-based brain disorder which may be diagnosed and effectively treated. Visits the Washington Lab School where teaching strategies and techniques are demonstrated.
Call Number: DVD 1655.00
Publication Date: 2004, 29 min.
Dyslexia : an unwrapped gift This program approaches dyslexia from a new angle, exploring how the so-called disability might prove an advantage in an increasingly image-based world.
Call Number: DVD 1656.00
Publication Date: 2002, 22 min.
Educating Peter Follows Peter Gwazdauskas, a Down's Syndrome child who has always attended special schools, through his first year in a regular classroom.
Call Number: DVD 653.00
Publication Date: 2003, 30 min.
The effective teacher The Effective Teacher, an eight-part program, shows what effective teachers do to promote student achievement.
Call Number: DVD 326.01 - DVD 326.08
Publication Date: 2005, 300 min.
The Family factor This program focuses on an instructional approach to student retention, success and persistence, particularly Latino students. The video explores the impact of engaging students' families in college coursework with the students, family, faculty and administrators whose experiences provide a unique insight into instruction that works.
Call Number: DVD 999.10
Publication Date: 2009, 39 min.
The first year Every year the United States hires 250,000 new teachers. On September 7, five teachers will begin their new journey. These five young teachers fight the real fight: educating our children, one child at a time. Shows the human side of the story, revealing all the determination and commitment it takes to survive in America's toughest school systems.
Call Number: DVD 858.00
ISBN: 9780767060394
Publication Date: 2004, 78 min.
How difficult can this be? Understanding learning disabilities A group experiences life the way a learning disabled student does and learns methods of teaching and helping such students.
Call Number: DVD 2685.00
ISBN: 9780793642625
Publication Date: 2004, 65 min.
Information literacy: the perils of online research Explains how to conduct solid online research by collecting information in an organized, efficient, and ethical way. Provides guidance on a range of research activities, including evaluating the credibility of Web content, documenting online sources, and paraphrasing. Emphasizes the consequences of plagiarism and shaky facts.
Call Number: DVD 563.00
Publication Date: 2006, 21 min.
Introduction to critical thinking Explores critical thinking. Covers the differences between critical and creative thinking; the characteristics of critical thinkers; the ways in which beliefs affect critical thinking; the use of language to clarify thinking; differences between fact and opinion; cause and effect; perceptions; and the uses of reports, inferences, and judgments in critical thinking.
Call Number: DVD 1278.00
Publication Date: 2008, 25 min.
Making lectures more meaningful: integrating active learning techniques The lecture can be an efficient way to present information, but a large amount of research shows that adding active elements to teaching will improve student motivation and learning. Leading educators from across the country present easily implemented active learning strategies.
Call Number: DVD 999.01
Publication Date: 2007, 53 min.
Measuring student outcomes Course-level approaches will be considered as this program examines a performance-based general education assessment model as well as techniques instructors can implement within their current models. Faculty-developed holistic scoring rubrics will be included.
Call Number: DVD 999.03
Publication Date: 2007, 47 min.
A New I.D.E.A for special education: understanding the system and the new law: a guide for parents, a tool for educators Helps parents and educators better understand the recent changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (I.D.E.A.), the law governing special education. Covers the referral process in special education, the evaluation process, creating an individualized education program, placement and related services, and preparing for transitions. Also discusses discipline, mediation, and standardized testing for students with special needs.
Call Number: DVD 740.00
Publication Date: 2005, 40 min.
Oral interpretation made easy Types of oral interpretation as well as the stages of oral interpretation are discussed.
Call Number: DVD 527.00
Publication Date: 2000, 14 min.
Safe & secure in the academic environment. Pt 1 This program is designed to provide security-strategies for classrooms and campuses, as members of the Virginia Tech Review Panel and national safety experts share "lessons learned" and advice on : properly identifying red flags and warning signs in individuals ; FERPA provisions allowing personal information sharing ; how to respond to troubled students in the classroom ; violence and suicide prevention ; successful threat-assessment and Emergency Response Plans ; choosing campus alert-systems.
Call Number: DVD 999.07
Publication Date: 2008, 55 min.
Safe & secure in the academic environment Pt 2 In this second program in a series, proven safety practices are shared by nationally known experts in law enforcement, higher education, psychiatry, and law. Learn specific techniques for classroom security, how to identify red flags and warning signs of potential threats, and simple drills that enhance classroom and campus safety.
Call Number: DVD 999.09
Publication Date: 2008, 51 min.
Secondary classroom management techniques Illustrates teaching principles and activities that establish an effective and positive learning environment in the classroom.
Call Number: DVD 737.00
Publication Date: 2000, 25 min.
Strategies from the front-line: best practices from hybrid instructors Presents practical and successful strategies for faculty on how to blend face-to-face with online instruction. Topics include : blended learning problems and solutions ; best practices for chemistry courses in a hybrid format ; course design strategies ; building virtual teamwork skills ; addressing highly visual content or difficult discussion topics ; and fostering student ownership over their own learning in a blended format.
Call Number: DVD 999.08
Publication Date: 2008, 60 min.
Student motivation: techniques for the college instructor Research has shown that teachers can influence student motivation; that certain practices do work to increase time spent on task; and that there are ways to make assigned work more engaging and effective for students at all levels. This program looks at some practical strategies for promoting student engagement in learning.
Call Number: DVD 999.05
Publication Date: 2008, 57 min.
Teach me different: successful strategies for teaching children who learn differently Professor Smith demonstrates simple techniques used to guide learning disabled children to academic success.
Call Number: DVD 833.00
Publication Date: 2001, 222 min.
Virtual job interview Interview preparation with simulated interview and interactive questions, also includes tips on interviewing attire and handling illegal questions, plus a review.
Call Number: DVD 980.00
Publication Date: 2005, 30 min.
Waiting for Superman Provides an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. [This documentary] has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college, and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to give him a shot at a better life.
Call Number: DVD 1499.00
Publication Date: 2011, 111 min.