Introduction to Teachers' Domain Workshop

This workshop introduces the Teachers' Domain Web site, including how to register and how to find, select, and use the online resources.

Using Teachers' Domain in the Classroom Workshop

This workshop introduces teachers to strategies for using Teachers' Domain resources in the classroom.

Creating User-Generated Media Workshop

This workshop introduces ways to use Teachers' Domain media to produce videos.

Discussion of Electric Circuits

In this video from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, a teacher and her fourth-grade class discuss observations of their experiment with electric circuits.

Group Discussion about Soil and Earthworms

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Life Science, a teacher leads her second-grade students in a group discussion about earthworms and the importance of soil.

Making Observations of Leaves

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Life Science, a teacher asks her first-grade students to record their observations of leaves they’ve collected on a leaf safari.

Making Predictions about Magnets

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, fourth graders predict the effect a nearby electric current will have on a magnetic compass needle.

Making Predictions about Moving Plates

In this video segment from Teaching Earth and Space Science, middle school students work with map data to make predictions about the movement of tectonic plates.

About Inspiring Middle School Literacy

This professional development video from WGBH shows how teachers work with their students, using the self-paced lessons from the Inspiring Middle School Literacy collection, to improve content knowledge and literacy skills.

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Active Teaching and Learning

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results, to see how strategies such as hands-on activities or participation in group work increase student understanding and confidence.

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Adapting Environments for Individuals with Vision Loss – Darick Wright

In these videos produced by Perkins School for the Blind, Darick Wright, Coordinator of the New England Eye Clinic at Perkins, explains the importance of adapting environmental factors like lighting and contrast to people with vision loss.

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Addressing Issues of Sexuality with Students who are Visually Impaired – Jeff Migliozzi

These videos produced by Perkins School for the Blind provide information for teachers and parents about the importance of using clear and accurate language when talking about sexual development with children who are blind or visually impaired.

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Assessing Prior Knowledge of Pond Life

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, a science education specialist works with a small group of middle school students to determine what they know about pond life.

Assessing Student Learning about Light

In this video from Physics by Inquiry, learn about assessing the transfer of knowledge to new situations.

Assessing Student Understanding of Crayfish

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, a fifth-grade teacher discusses how she assesses student understanding in a classroom activity.

Assessing Teaching and Learning

Watch how one teacher conducts formative assessment as part of her statistics class, in this professional development video from Getting Results.

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Becoming Green Energy Experts

See how Lansing, Michigan inner-city youth become community science experts in energy sustainability and environmental health topics in this student-centric after-school program.

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Benefits of Using a Human Model

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, seventh-grade students use beads and scissors of various colors to represent specific food components and enzymes as they model digestion.

Bridging Culture, Community and Science

See how a place-based high school curriculum project promotes STEM learning through local ethnography and conservation projects. This video segment showcases one of 11 CREST projects taking place in rural, coastal Maine communities.

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Checking Circuit Models for Consistency

This video from Physics by Inquiry shows instructors discussing their goals for formative assessments and strategies for how to conduct them.

Classifying Leaves

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Life Science, a teacher talks about the skills and attitudes her first-grade students are developing through classroom activities, such as classifying leaves into groups.

Comparing Results to Predictions with Balls and Ramps

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, a first-grade teacher leads her students in a discussion about the results of their experiment with marbles rolling down ramps.

Completing the Circuit

In this video from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, a teacher and her fourth-grade class discuss observations of their experiment with electric circuits.

Connecting the Lithosphere and the Biosphere

In this video segment from Teaching Earth and Space Science, a middle school teacher explains why she enjoys teaching with a systems-based approach.

Cortical Visual Impairment – Ellen Mazel

In these videos produced by Perkins School for the Blind, Ellen Mazel, of the Educational Partnerships Program at Perkins School for the Blind, describes the characteristics of cortical visual Impairment, a neurological condition that impairs visual processing.

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Crayfish in the Classroom

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, a fifth-grade teacher helps her students experiment with crayfish in the classroom.

Creating a Community of Learners

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results to see how getting to know your students and establishing a positive classroom environment can greatly increase student success.

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Dealing with Controversy

In this video segment from Teaching Evolution Case Studies, science teachers explore how controversy may arise in teaching evolution in the public school classroom.

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Demonstrating Conceptual Understanding of Electrical Circuits

This video from Physics by Inquiry shows teachers in a professional development workshop challenging their own understanding of electric circuits by considering sample responses from students.

Designing a Human Model

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, a seventh-grade teacher describes the digestion model she uses with her students.

Developing a Scientific Model for Electrical Circuits

This video from Physics by Inquiry shows teachers working through a professional development activity that emphasizes learning about electric circuits through inquiry.

Eliciting Specific Difficulties with Light and Shadow

In this video from Physics by Inquiry, teachers in a professional development workshop confront their own ideas about how light rays travel.

Energy Assessment and Roller Coasters

This video from Teaching High School Physical Science shows a teacher assessing whether his students understand the concepts of energy that they have been studying.

Engaging Students in Lecture and Lab

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results in which students move from lecture to lab teams and use algebraic functions to program robots.

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Focusing Investigations on Weights and Planes

This video from Teachers As Learners shows teachers investigating torque in an inquiry-oriented professional development session.

Gaining Catfish Aquaculture Skills

See how Mississippi high school students confront the uncertainty and untidiness of science and develop problem-solving strategies in the context of local catfish farming.

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Girls Explore IT Careers

See how BuildIT, an afterschool program in Alameda County, CA, addresses the gender gap in advanced technology careers - promoting middle school girls' fluency in information technologies (IT), interest in math, and IT career awareness.

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Goals for Designing a Lesson on Roller Coasters

In this video from Teaching High School Physical Science, a teacher comments about his goals for a lesson on the physics of amusement-park rides.

Goals for the Understanding of Balls and Ramps

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, a first-grade teacher informally assesses student learning while her students conduct an investigation.

Immersion in Biotechnology

In this video segment from Teachers as Learners, teachers participate in an inquiry-based investigation of the science and techniques of DNA fingerprinting.

Including Students with Albinism – Sue Dalton

In these videos co-produced by Perkins School for the Blind and National Organization for Albinism & Hypopigmentation (NOAH), Susan Dalton, who has served with (NOAH) for over 20 years and has raised two children with albinism, discusses accommodations for classroom environments.

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Inquiry-Based Teaching of the Solar System

In this video segment from Teaching Earth and Space Science, an eighth-grade teacher helps his students investigate the scale of the solar system.

Integrating Disciplines in Project-Based Learning

Watch instructors from different disciplines create an integrated project that links concepts from their courses, in this professional development video from Getting Results.

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Intervening to Prevent a Dropout

This video excerpt from FRONTLINE: "Middle School Moment" proposes that the make-or-break moment for high school dropouts may actually occur in middle school, and presents how one middle school intervenes to prevent dropouts.

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Issues in Social Skills and Sex Education – Tom Miller

In these videos produced by Perkins School for the Blind, Tom Miller, Educational Partnerships Supervisor, discusses the importance of social skills and sexual education for children with disabilities, with emphasis on the experience of children with vision impairments and vision loss.

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A Lab Experiment with Reflection and Absorption

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Physical Science, a sixth-grade teacher leads an experiment with her class on energy transfer and gets them to analyze the results.

Launching an Inquiry about Balance

This video from Teachers As Learners shows the exploratory phase of an inquiry-based professional development workshop for science teachers.

Launching a Unit on Electric Circuits

In this video from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, see a fourth-grade teacher describe how she begins a unit about electricity.

Learning Through Video Production

In this media-rich self-paced lesson designed for teacher professional development, experience what it's like to go through the video production process, and then develop an engaging video-production experience for your students.

Limitations of a Human Model

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, a seventh-grade teacher discusses the limitations of a model she uses to help teach about the digestive system.

Making Observations of Balls and Ramps

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, a first-grade teacher asks her students to share their observations of marbles rolling down ramps.

Making Observations of Fluids

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Physical Science, students make observations about different fluids during a classroom investigation.

Making Predictions about Crayfish

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, a fifth-grade teacher discusses asks students to predict how long it would take for a crayfish to crawl 15 inches.

Making Predictions about Ramp-Rolling

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, a first-grade teacher ask her students to predict whether the size of a marble affects how quickly it reaches the bottom of a ramp.

Making Predictions about Reflection and Absorption

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Physical Science, a sixth-grade teacher engages her students to make predictions during an investigation on light.

Making the Invisible Visible with Pond Life

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, an education specialist uses a range of tools to introduce single-celled organisms to a small group of middle school students.

MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies in Action

In this video from the MARTHA SPEAKS mini-tutorial on vocabulary, teachers Weddy Youn and Joseph Cooke describe their success in using the cross-age literacy program, MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies.

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MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies Up Close

In this video from WFSU, staff and students describe how the MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies Program works and discuss the benefits of pairing younger and older students.

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Moving Beyond the Classroom

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results, to discover how industry and community connections provide students with firsthand experience in how to apply their learning.

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PBCL in an Architecture Design Class

In this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real, see how students in an architectural design class use PBCL to refine their designs for a wellness center.

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PBCL in a Web Design Class

In this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real, see how one instructor works with the business community and then with students in his Web design class.

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PBCL in the Field: Instructor Insights

In this video from Making Learning Real, community college teachers reflect on the Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) methodology.

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PBCL in the Field: Student Insights

In this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real, students at two community colleges reflect on the outcomes of PBCL.

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PBCL in an HTML Class

Watch students present solutions to an organization's business problem, in this video on the Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) approach from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL in an Information Technology Class

Watch an IT class develop a networking plan for a retail business, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL: Preparing Students for Today

This video excerpted from Making Learning Real introduces Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL), a methodology that puts a real-world industry problem at the center of course curriculum.

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PBCL Stage 1: Course/Business Matching

Watch how a Web design instructor identifies a local businessperson to participate in a class project, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 2: Framing a Situation for the Classroom

See how instructors and their business partners develop real-world problems for classes, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 3: The Situation

Watch students prepare networking solutions for a local business, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 4: Problem Analysis

Watch an architectural design class identify research questions and gain insights from an industry expert, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 5: Field Insights

Watch an Information Technology class gain first-hand information about real business problems through an on-site visit, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 6: Resource Development

Watch students in a Web design class work with their business partner, instructor, and classmates as they develop a Web site for their business partner, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 7: Test Points

See an architecture class revise their plans after receiving feedback from a client, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 8: Evidence of Learning

Watch student teams present Web site solutions to their client, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 9: Feedback & Evaluation

Watch an HTML instructor discuss how she evaluates students’ work, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 9: Feedback & Evaluation - Guest Expert

Watch a guest Web design instructor give feedback on student presentations to a client, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL: Teamwork

Watch IT students and their instructor discuss the value of teamwork, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL: Thinking About Evaluation

Watch instructors and a learning scientist discuss ways to evaluate student work, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL: Why It Works

In this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real, watch the developers of PBCL talk about the fundamentals behind the methodology.

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Planning for Outcomes

Watch a group of teachers plan their courses in order to reinforce program goals and prepare students for real-life job experiences, in this professional development video from Getting Results.

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Publishing Genome Research

Watch how NJ high school students apply basic principles of molecular biology to solve real research problems, and publish their own genome research at GenBank — the international genomic sequence database.

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Questioning Strategies with Reflection and Absorption

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Physical Science, a sixth-grade teacher uses guided questioning with her class during an experiment with light.

Questioning Strategies with Soil and Earthworms

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Life Science, a teacher works with several of her second-grade students as they pursue earthworm investigations.

Ramps and Ball Bearings

In this video from Teaching High School Physical Science, observe the learning environment of a class studying the physics of roller coasters.

Relating Concepts to Scientific Representations of Circuits

In this video from Physics by Inquiry, teachers in a professional development workshop use and develop inquiry skills as they investigate electric circuits.

Research Principles for Supporting Middle School Literacy

This self-paced lesson designed for teacher professional development introduces research principles for middle school literacy and shows them in action in the Inspiring Middle School Literacy collection.

Returning to Predictions about Reflection and Absorption

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Physical Science, a sixth-grade teacher reviews with her students their original predictions about an experiment with light.

Roller Coaster Ride

In this video from Teaching High School Physical Science, observe a teacher working with students on their understanding of the physics of roller coasters.

Scaling the Solar System

In this video segment from Teaching Earth and Space Science, an eighth-grade teacher uses familiar objects and spaces to model the scale of the Solar System.

Scientific Vocabulary for Fluids

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Physical Science, a teacher uses different methods to help her class acquire and use scientific vocabulary.

Setting up an Experiment with Fluids

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Physical Science, a class makes observations and inferences about viscosity of fluids.

Setting up an Experiment with Reflection and Absoprtion

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Physical Science, a teacher prepares her class for a lab examining the reflection and absorption of light.

Setting up a Fair Experiment with Balls and Ramps

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, a teacher helps her first-grade students set up and run an experiment.

Setting up an Inquiry about Soil and Earthworms

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Life Science, a teacher talks with her second-grade class about their study of earthworm behavior.

Setting up an Experiment with Crayfish

In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, a fifth-grade teacher works with students to set up an experiment to answer the question, How fast is a crayfish?

Students Study Urban Ecology

See how Boston middle and high school students shape urban planning in their own neighborhoods, through place-based Bioacoustics and Urban Trees curriculum projects.

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Teaching About Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces

This video from Teaching High School Physical Science shows how a teacher implements knowledge of content and pedagogy with his students.

Teaching Beyond the Textbook with Magnets

In this video segment from Teaching Elementary Physical Science, a fourth-grade teacher incorporates a media resource into his discussion activity.

Teaching Braille Reading and Writing – Lucia Hasty

These videos produced by Perkins School for the Blind explain ways that reading and writing in braille can be meaningful for young children who are blind or visually impaired, long before they have learned the braille code.

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Teaching Evolution with Ken Bingman

In this video segment from Teaching Evolution Case Studies, a high school teacher introduces evolution to his students and draws out their misconceptions.