Teaching Channel Presents is a groundbreaking series that highlights inspiring teaching going on right now in America’s K-12 classrooms.
Produced by Teaching Channel, a multiplatform showcase for teacher development, the series will appeal to teachers looking for models of great teaching and to parents and others who care about America’s future.
Each week’s episode is a one-hour magazine-style program that:
Showcases effective and replicable teaching in action.
Uses real teachers and students at work in real classrooms.
Engages viewers with interesting characters and authentic situations.
Week 1: October 8, 2011 Visit a multi-lingual classroom in Los Angeles where students learn to find their voice. See sixth graders on a microscopic safari. Watch graphing come alive for active third graders. See a new teacher improve his practice with help from instructional coach Jim Knight and check out how a middle school math teacher boosts retention for his students.
Week 2: October 15, 2011 Watch high-achievers excel in a mixed-grade classroom. See how a teacher uses food coloring to mix up her math class. Visit a seventh-grade science class as they dig into history with fossils. Learn some classroom management strategies as Jim Knight advises a language arts class and experience a creative way to teach the history of the Earth.
Week 3: October 22, 2011 Students get hands-on experience at a local hospital. An egg represents your brain in an eighth-grade science lesson. Educational guru Jim Knight works with a seventh-grade teacher on the pace of her classes and watch an emotional lesson about the Holocaust.
Week 4: October 29, 2011 Visit a school where Spanish immersion takes learning to a deeper level. Watch a second-grade teacher demonstrate how to make a classroom a safe learning space. See a seventh-grade class explore the difficult topic of slavery in America.
Week 5: November 5, 2011 Listen as a teacher uses rhythm to assist students with their reading skills. Watch students analyze greenhouse gases in plastic soda bottles and learn an entertaining way to teach fractions.
Week 6: November 12, 2011 Join the “Mouse Squad” as they fix technical problems around the school. Watch a teacher with a passion for reading as he motivates his students and learn more about adjusting to the changes in the new Common Core State Standards.
Week 7: November 19, 2011 Snap your fingers to the rhythms of Duke Ellington as students learn about similes. Watch an incredible teaching team tackle algebra with their middle school students, and discover more about the new Common Core State Standards being put in place.
Week 8: November 26, 2011 Learn how parents can get involved in their children’s education. Discover a third-grade math class full of music and hard workers. Watch classrooms that have successfully adapted to the new Common Core State Standards.
Week 9: December 3, 2011 You can’t help but admire deaf and blind children who work to their fullest potential every day. Watch as difficult vocabulary is woven into every part of a fifth-grade classroom. Spend some time examining the new Common Core State Standards in middle school math and English.
Week 10: December 10, 2011 Check out these high school students as they produce a live radio program. Discover exactly what a great guided-reading lesson looks like and observe the Common Core State Standards in action at the high school level.
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Teaching Channel Presents
Teaching Channel Presents is a groundbreaking series that highlights inspiring teaching going on right now in America’s K-12 classrooms.
Produced by Teaching Channel, a multiplatform showcase for teacher development, the series will appeal to teachers looking for models of great teaching and to parents and others who care about America’s future.
Each week’s episode is a one-hour magazine-style program that:
Teaching Channel Presents proves that great teaching can also make for great entertainment.
The series airs Saturdays at 6 p.m. on THIRTEEN.
Episode Descriptions:
Week 1: October 8, 2011
Visit a multi-lingual classroom in Los Angeles where students learn to find their voice. See sixth graders on a microscopic safari. Watch graphing come alive for active third graders. See a new teacher improve his practice with help from instructional coach Jim Knight and check out how a middle school math teacher boosts retention for his students.
Week 2: October 15, 2011
Watch high-achievers excel in a mixed-grade classroom. See how a teacher uses food coloring to mix up her math class. Visit a seventh-grade science class as they dig into history with fossils. Learn some classroom management strategies as Jim Knight advises a language arts class and experience a creative way to teach the history of the Earth.
Week 3: October 22, 2011
Students get hands-on experience at a local hospital. An egg represents your brain in an eighth-grade science lesson. Educational guru Jim Knight works with a seventh-grade teacher on the pace of her classes and watch an emotional lesson about the Holocaust.
Week 4: October 29, 2011
Visit a school where Spanish immersion takes learning to a deeper level. Watch a second-grade teacher demonstrate how to make a classroom a safe learning space. See a seventh-grade class explore the difficult topic of slavery in America.
Week 5: November 5, 2011
Listen as a teacher uses rhythm to assist students with their reading skills. Watch students analyze greenhouse gases in plastic soda bottles and learn an entertaining way to teach fractions.
Week 6: November 12, 2011
Join the “Mouse Squad” as they fix technical problems around the school. Watch a teacher with a passion for reading as he motivates his students and learn more about adjusting to the changes in the new Common Core State Standards.
Week 7: November 19, 2011
Snap your fingers to the rhythms of Duke Ellington as students learn about similes. Watch an incredible teaching team tackle algebra with their middle school students, and discover more about the new Common Core State Standards being put in place.
Week 8: November 26, 2011
Learn how parents can get involved in their children’s education. Discover a third-grade math class full of music and hard workers. Watch classrooms that have successfully adapted to the new Common Core State Standards.
Week 9: December 3, 2011
You can’t help but admire deaf and blind children who work to their fullest potential every day. Watch as difficult vocabulary is woven into every part of a fifth-grade classroom. Spend some time examining the new Common Core State Standards in middle school math and English.
Week 10: December 10, 2011
Check out these high school students as they produce a live radio program. Discover exactly what a great guided-reading lesson looks like and observe the Common Core State Standards in action at the high school level.