[Nesabes] FW: Media Library of Teaching Skills (MLoTS) Classroom VideoProject

[Bower, Carol]

Please, consider participating in this opportunity.

Carol
 
Carol Bower
Director, Northeast SABES
Northern Essex Community College
45 Franklin Street
Lawrence, MA 01840
978-738-7301
 
"SABES: Training Leaders in Adult Basic Education"
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>>> David Rosen <djrosen1 at gmail.com> 1/20/2008 6:24 PM >>>
Dear Adult Education Colleague,

To help provide professional development for adult education teachers 

across the country, The Media Library of Teaching Skills (MLoTs) is  
building a Web-based library of short classroom teaching videos. We  
are recording examples of teaching in ABE, ESOL, ASE, transition to  
college, and in a variety of subjects and adult education settings,  
and posting the videos on the Internet. We hope you will be  
interested in helping to build this resource for professional  
development.

We have some teaching examples on our Web site, http://mlots.org ,  
and we will be making more.

For a short time this spring we will be recording classroom videos in 

Massachusetts. We hope you will consider having us come to your  
classroom to video a short lesson based on a Massachusetts' adult  
education curriculum frameworks standard, an Equipped for the Future  
standard, or recognized best practice. If you are interested, please  
let us know. If you know teachers whom you think would be interested, 

please let them know, and encourage them to contact us.

If you are concerned about whether your video should be posted on the 

Web, you will have an opportunity to review it, make comments and  
suggestions and then decide. This free opportunity will only be  
available this spring.

Here's how it works:

You select a particular lesson, teaching technique, or other best  
practice that you feel is effective, perhaps that is aligned with a  
Massachusetts curriculum frameworks standard, and that you would like 

to share with others.  Then you develop a short lesson plan. (We are  
available to help you with that.) We will video record that lesson,  
including student interaction, in your classroom for about 15-30  
minutes. The final edited video segments will only be a total of 5  
-10 minutes long.

We will arrive 45 minutes before the class to set up the equipment,  
interview you for a few minutes as you describe the lesson, and to  
meet your students. We will then video record the lesson.  We will  
meet with you for a few minutes afterwards to discuss and record how  
you thought the lesson went.  You and your students will need to sign 

a release form agreeing that the (edited) video could be used in  
adult education professional development and training.  We will only  
use these releases if you give us permission to host the video on the 

MLoTs Web site. We will give you a CD or DVD copy of the (edited)
video.

To participate, you will need to e-mail us a simple, one-page plan,  
including:

1) Learning objective(s). What do you want the students to be able to 

describe or do at the end of the 10-15 minute lesson?

2) Relationship to the Massachusetts adult education curriculum  
frameworks; to a research-based teaching approach, strategy or  
method; or to a best practice.

3) Activities. What are the activities of the lesson? For each  
activity, is it primarily something you do as the teacher, or that  
the students do, or both?

We will also want to know:

1) Have you ever been videotaped while teaching? If so, tell us about 

that experience.

2) Are there any special considerations we should be aware of  
concerning making a video in your classroom: light, sound, room to  
operate video cameras?

3) Have the students in the class agreed to be video recorded?

4) Has your program director agreed that the class may be video  
recorded?

We will select teachers to participate based on their responses to  
these questions.


If you are interested in participating in the MLoTS Classroom Video  
project, please let us know as soon as possible, Thanks.

David J. Rosen, President
Media Library of Teaching Skills
djrosen at mlots.org