Teaching Channel

Today is my SEDU 183 class we explored a website called Learning Channel, these are a few of the videos that I liked on the website.

Exploring Emigration: Cultural Identity

This first video explains how a 7th grade teacher tries to relate culture through media. The students watch a video of a couple of boy from Sudan come to America and try to live, still keeping their cultural beliefs and values. The kids then have a worksheet to do and have to try and discuss their relations to how the Sudan boys felt when they came to American and the students own life. One of the girls relates and says that in India she knew everybody in their little city or village, and when she came to America her mother began to feel lonely because, here, you don't know everyone in your city or "village".

Reading Like a Historian: Philosophical Chairs

In this next video, they are using a method called Philosophical Chairs. This is when the child answers a question by actually moving around the room. In this video they are talking about whether the decision of not liking the Vietnam War was social, political or economic. The students physically have to move the the side of the room where the teacher states if social, political, or economic, and then they begin to discuss and argue why it is or isn't one of those choices. 

Antiques Roadshow: Show and Tell

This video explains a little more about show and tell. The teacher explains that opening show and tell to anything can get boring and confusing for some students. Children can bring in expensive things that maybe other children cannot afford and things like that. So in this video they decided to have and "Antique Show and Tell". This was a good idea because children had to bring in items that were older than them. They had a paper on which they had to go off of to share their show and tell item stating things like how old the item was and what it was, where there got it and things like that.

Two Others:
I Wish I Had Known
Attention Getting Signals: Respect


Overall, this website is really helpful for people my age that want to become teachers and need learn about different learning strategies and things of that nature. It has many videos on many different categories. These videos range on times, but no matter how short or long the video is, it is very helpful. You are able to realize the different things you can do inside a classroom, maybe some things that you never heard of before, such as in my second video when they use Philosophical Chairs.