| Students often anticipate that watching videos during | | | | these resources to provide experience for your |
| class time can be an opportunity to avoid standard | | | | students to go around the world, to meet new people |
| lessons and goof off instead. Teachers welcome their | | | | and to hear new ideas. Video allows your students to |
| school video use as a different approach to learning. | | | | get outside of their comfort zone and recognize that |
| The challenge for you as the teacher is to engage | | | | their world is greater than the surroundings of their |
| your students so they gain something valuable from | | | | home and school. Video, as we've learned from |
| the experience, so why not rely on some proven | | | | several generations of television and movies, can |
| techniques for incorporating school videos or | | | | introduce these students to exciting plays, literature, |
| educational media into your elementary lessons. | | | | music or important scenes from the history books and |
| The research is consistent in proving that teachers | | | | bring them right into the classroom. |
| who rely on educational videos help their students to | | | | With the incorporation of school videos into your |
| remember more of the lesson and understand | | | | curriculum, you have the ability to illustrate complex, |
| concepts more quickly because videos address more | | | | abstract concepts with the help of live action, |
| learning modalities. With audio and visual resources | | | | animation, text, music and photography. You can also |
| presented in logical order and the ever-interesting | | | | demonstrate experiments that show procedures and |
| video format delivered by current technology (TV | | | | actual classroom behavior that cannot normally be |
| & computer), students are more interested in the | | | | done efficiently in a classroom lesson. These attributes |
| lesson and can build concepts more quickly and | | | | expose your students to concepts and ideas that they |
| effectively with the sound and images video delivers. | | | | would normally have to rely on their own imagination to |
| Textbooks and guided lessons are enhanced with | | | | understand. The Power of Lasting Images |
| additional media resources. These teachers also have | | | | As a teacher, you can rely on this medium to reach |
| students who are more excited about the information | | | | your students with a wide array of styles that |
| they are receiving and the accompanying activities. | | | | accommodate different types of learning. Your visual |
| What teacher doesn't wish to have a classroom full of | | | | learners and other students who absorb information in |
| students who are excited to learn? As an educator | | | | their own unique style will be able to learn in a whole |
| who seeks to create such an environment, you can | | | | new and more productive way. You can also enjoy |
| implement school videos into your curriculum | | | | the power of engaging students in activities that solve |
| effectively by following some simple techniques. When | | | | problems and require investigation to get them more |
| video resources are part of a thoughtful lesson plan, | | | | excited about the lessons they are doing. School |
| video can help your students to make new | | | | videos also help your students to be able to achieve |
| connections between the topics of the curriculum and | | | | literacy in different types of media and develop skills in |
| identify similarities between these ideas and realities | | | | critical viewing. Through this common experience, |
| outside of the classroom as they grow and learn. | | | | students can learn to discuss what they viewed and |
| Video's Unique Attributes | | | | how it applies to the lesson and to life. |
| School videos offer significant benefits that are | | | | Teaching techniques for using school videos in VHS or |
| specifically suited for the elementary classroom. | | | | DVD format have changed over the years as |
| Perhaps the most exciting of these attributes is video's | | | | research has shown how simple presentation methods |
| ability to take field trips-sound and imagery field | | | | can enhance lessons. Improve your lessons right now |
| trips-that would normally be impossible. Students can | | | | by watching this video "The 7 Mistakes Teachers |
| go inside the human body, to the bottom of the ocean | | | | Make Using Video in the Classroom" and by |
| or even off to places as vast as Saturn. Video | | | | downloading and following the tips in the Free Expert |
| resources are abundant in every subject area. Use | | | | Guide. |