1. Jacqueline Miller
  2. http://ltd.edc.org/people/jackie-miller
  3. Senior Research Scientist
  4. Electronic Teacher Guide: Its Development and Use in Supporting Educative Curricula
  5. Education Development Center
  1. Nevin Katz
  2. http://ltd.edc.org/people/nevin-katz
  3. Technical Associate
  4. Electronic Teacher Guide: Its Development and Use in Supporting Educative Curricula
  5. Education Development Center
  1. Katherine Paget
  2. http://ltd.edc.org/people/katherine-paget
  3. Senior Research Scientist
  4. Electronic Teacher Guide: Its Development and Use in Supporting Educative Curricula
  5. Education Development Center
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    Arthur Camins

    Facilitator
    Director
    May 16, 2016 | 02:36 p.m.

    Representing the importance of coherent, well thought out curriculum, a resource-, time-, and expertise-heavy undertaking, is much needed. Each of the many elements that you highlight are important in combination. Is there a companion guide that a curriculum might use to accompany the video?

    Thanks,
    Arthur

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    Jacqueline Miller

    Lead Presenter
    Senior Research Scientist
    May 16, 2016 | 05:51 p.m.

    Thanks for your thoughts, Arthur. The video was developed as part of a set of three. We wanted to support teachers in considering effective science curriculum – its characteristics, the importance of content coherence, and how curriculum can be modified mindfully. The videos were developed using content from our biology curriculum with the idea that the underlying messages of the videos could be transferred to whatever curriculum a teacher might be using. Long response to your question – we did not develop a guide for the videos. We were hoping that they could stand alone.

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    Brian Drayton

    Co-Principal Investigator
    May 16, 2016 | 07:19 p.m.

    Hi,
    This presentation is clear and pithy. I think I want to pick up on Arthur’s question, and your answer, about purpose and context for this video and its companions. Have you tested this out with teachers at different stages of their careers (I don’t mean necessarily formal testing, but just — gotten input/reactions from novice teachers, pre-service, mid-career) – and also curriculum supervisors or other administrative types — I could see that this might be useful as a thought-piece embedded in any one of a number of decisions in a school or district.

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    Katherine Paget

    Co-Presenter
    Senior Research Scientist
    May 16, 2016 | 07:37 p.m.

    Our teacher reviewers told us that they thought pre-service and early career teachers would find this useful. And some told us that veteran teachers would find this animation (and the other 2 videos in our suite) good tools for evaluating their instructional materials). We have not disseminated any of these animations as yet.
    Kathy Paget

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    Elissa Milto

    Facilitator
    Director of Outreach
    May 16, 2016 | 08:43 p.m.

    Hi,
    I like that one of the underlying principles of the video is that teachers are able to evaluate science curricula and modify it based on their goals.
    In thinking about teachers using this as a tool, I am wondering what the target grade range is for the videos.
    Thanks,
    Elissa

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    Nevin Katz

    Co-Presenter
    Technical Associate
    May 17, 2016 | 12:21 p.m.

    I believe we had the secondary (Middle School and High School) audience in mind when we were creating this, but I imagine some of the principles could be applied to elementary grades. Jackie and Kathy may have more to say about this.

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    Sarah-Kay McDonald

    Facilitator
    Principal Research Scientist
    May 16, 2016 | 11:11 p.m.

    Hi – and thanks for sharing this animation! I agree with Brian that the presentation is clear and concise, yet can also easily imagine some viewers might find it helpful (e.g., through a companion guide) to be able to drill-down through the rich information provided here to explore some of the ideas in more depth. I’d love to learn more about the project’s plans for dissemination—and whether the animations might be available for other researchers to embed in their projects (e.g., as a means of both sharing information on the value of using a core curriculum and obtaining data on the utility of these videos from a range of users in a variety of contexts). Looking forward to learning more about your work as the Video Showcase conversation unfolds!

  • Barbara Berns

    Guest
    May 17, 2016 | 10:48 a.m.

    Each time I see one of these I feel much like Brian – its clear and “pithy.” If coordinators, staff developers or teachers wanted this video or the series, where could they find them?

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    Nevin Katz

    Co-Presenter
    Technical Associate
    May 17, 2016 | 12:14 p.m.

    You can go here for the embed code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b48COZiu2lA&amp...

    I have more detailed instructions in a post below.

  • Icon for: Arthur Camins

    Arthur Camins

    Facilitator
    Director
    May 17, 2016 | 10:58 a.m.

    Tools to assist school districts and funders to (re)think deeply about the role of instructional materials in addressing the NGSS are critical. Vetted, coherent curricula are time-consuming and expensive to develop. But they are an essential first step, especially if major changes in content and practice are envisioned at scale. Are on the cheap, locally developed and/or teacher made a zombie idea– one that should have died but keeps coming back to life?

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    Nevin Katz

    Co-Presenter
    Technical Associate
    May 17, 2016 | 12:18 p.m.

    I ultimately ended up publishing some coherent resources based on some materials I developed locally (Dr. Birdley Teaches Science), and I think other educators would be able to say the same thing – so I think in some cases, locally developed curricula can be a valuable seed of change rather than a zombie idea if they are vetted by the district and/or science department and then implemented properly. That said I would argue that this practice can turn some teachers into zombies because of all the late hours.

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    Nevin Katz

    Co-Presenter
    Technical Associate
    May 17, 2016 | 05:24 p.m.

    Hey all! Our media guru just posted this version of the video to our YouTube channel (LTDFlix) so it can be used. After clicking this link and going to the page, click “Share” under the video and then select “embed” to get the embed code. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b48COZiu2lA&amp...

  • Myriam Steinback

    Guest
    May 20, 2016 | 08:36 a.m.

    What a wonderful tool for thinking about instructional materials – and a great video, Nevin Katz! Thanks for sharing.

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