Visual learning systems is an educational science publisher who's mission is to reignite a passion for teaching and learning science. Specifically designed for and customized to the curriculum of primary through to introductory college science courses, these series explore key topics on the life of vertebrates and helps instructors to teach challenging concepts. The films, and accompanying teacher materials, are a great asset for teachers and teachers...

During Collaborative conferences, teachers observe a lesson or conference and provide explicit feedback on the teaching and learning interaction. Collaborative conferences use a team approach (with two or more teachers) to support student learning. During the pre-conference, the student's teacher identifies the instructional goal and asks the observing teachers to notice specific writing behaviors. After the lesson, the teachers engage in purposeful...

Listen 2 the kids as they talk about the inclusion of their friends with special needs in the classroom, on the playground and in the lunchroom. This brief study of the inclusion process in an exemplary elementary school accents the joys and challenges of everyday life. The culture of acceptance is evident throughout. This film is a "must see" for teachers, teachers in training, counselors, psychologists, parents and advocates for the education of...

This training video introduces students to module salon organisation skills.--Kanopy.

Teachers of adolescent readers face many challenges. Some students are skilled at decoding text but have few strategies for understanding complex genres. Others have entered their teen years struggling to decode even the simplest books and articles. Through her highly successful book, I read it but i don't get it, Cris Tovani, a high school teacher in Denver, Colorado, has provided welcome advice to teachers on the reading strategies that worked...

"Wally Funk was among the Mercury 13, the first group of American pilots to complete NASA's 1961 Women in Space program... Undeterred, Funk went on to become one of America's first female aviation inspectors and civilian flight instructors, though her dream of being an astronaut never dimmed. In this offbeat odyssey, journalist and fellow space buff Sue Nelson travels with Wally Funk, approaching her 80th birthday, as she races to make her giant...

The Marine Corps continues to be the only service where men and women train separately in boot camp or basic training. This segregation negatively affects interaction with male marines later on, and, lower expectations of female recruits are actively maintained and encouraged. But Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano arrived at the Fourth Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island--which exclusively trains female recruits--convinced that if she expected...