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ABC News Video to accompany
Foundations of American Education, 5^th Edition

by Webb et al.

 Engage your students through ABC News Video segments, available on DVD in the back of Foundations of American Education, 5^th Edition, by Webb et al. 

Click here to view a short segment of "Action, Reaction, and Zero Tolerance: How Far Is Too Far?" which focuses on the effect of zero-tolerance policies being adopted in school districts across the United States. This video segment is integrated into Ch. 10 through the Video Insights feature that provides questions to encourage your students to critically think and reflect on its' connection to chapter content and encourage group discussion.   

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Multicultural Education in a
Pluralistic Society, 7^th Edition

Critical Issues in Multicultural Education DVD

The ABC News/Prentice Hall Video Library titled Critical Issues in Multicultural Education is packaged on DVD in the back of this text, Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society, Seventh Edition. This video library is also available on VHS for professors.

This video library challenges students to explore chapter topics through ABC News segments focusing on multicultural issues. Video Insights features within each chapter offer a short summary of each episode and ask students to think about and respond to questions relating to the video and chapter content.

Click here to view a video clip on Exceptionality, Chapter 5, Jessica Parks Surmounts Her Obstacles.

In this video, the accomplishments of a truly remarkable young woman, Jessica Parks, are highlighted. Born without arms, she has accomplished more than many individuals without disabilities, and far more than her parents, physicians and educators could have imagined. Educators (including special educators) often predetermine in the minds what children with disabilities will or will not be able to accomplish, and limit their access to educational programs. This is often a mistake, which can even lead to lawsuits. In this video, we can see why the courts will almost always side with the student and their parents if the schools refuse to allow the student the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to perform in a general education class.

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Literacy for the 21^st Century:
A Balanced Approach

Instructional Procedures:
Scenes from the Compendium DVD

This new DVD, free with each text, shares video footage of talented teachers and their compelling classroom scenes. These clips take you right into their classrooms to watch them use grand conversations, guided reading, interactive writing, and other procedures discussed in the text.

• Classroom footage showcases masterful teachers using instructional procedures from the compendium.
• Notes throughout chapters connect DVD clips with chapter content and Compendium procedures.
• Activities on the Companion Website help new teachers deepen and apply their understanding of the DVD's instructional procedures.

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Observing Children and Adolescents

Guided Interactive Practice in Understanding Development

Jayne A. Downey, Stuart E. Garry, Teresa M. McDevitt

with contributions by Jeanne Ellis Ormrod 

and Jason R. Cole

This 3 volume CD set was developed to help students accurately "see" the children with whom they work while guiding them through activities that help them develop a discerning "eye" for the developmental nuances of children's behavior. Topically organized, these CDs can be used to supplement any development text or course.

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Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching, 4^th edition

Clips from the Classroom:
Learning with Technology on DVD
M.D. Roblyer
M.D. Roblyer

Located in the back of Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching, 4th Edition, the Technology Integration Workshop DVD includes video clips that provide students with immediate access to real classrooms where effective technology integration is happening. Students can watch teachers as they use technology in their classrooms to shape and support learning. Questions located on this text's Companion Website (http://www.prenhall.com/roblyer) allow students to analyze these clips based on chapter content.

Click here to see the CD demo of Geometer's Sketchpad for Inductive Reasoning.

At the Advanced Technology Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada, high school geometry teacher Mike Patterson uses geometric construction and modeling software to present concepts and problems to students and to develop students' conceptual understanding.

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Real Lives, Real Exceptionalities

Special Education in Today's Schools

R. Carl Harris, Rud Turnbull,
Ann Turnbull, Sean J. Smith

This CD-ROM offers inspirational, motivating testimonies that capture the essence of working with students with special needs. Featuring five students with special needs and their support teams, each video segment concentrates on the student's home life, the student's school, and the student's involvement in and contribution to the community. The CD also offers pre-service and in-service teachers and professionals the opportunity to immediately engage with these students, their families, and their support teams. In addition, the CD programming allows users to isolate video segments and use them to build their own customized Special Education teaching portfolio. By having this real experience, special education as well as general education teachers and professionals can determine how they might improve their own practices and classroom experiences. 

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Inclusive Classrooms

Serving Special Education Students in 

General Education Classrooms

R. Carl Harris, Anne Bauer, Steve Kroeger, and David S. Baker

Designed to give education majors an experience of actual inclusive classrooms, this CD-ROM contains 36 video clips demonstrating inclusion strategies for four different grade levels. The various clips show children with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and mild/moderate disabilities being successfully engaged in the classroom community and in learning by expert teachers.  In addition, the CD programming allows users to isolate video segments and use them to build their own customized teaching portfolio.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching/Leading

Studies to Improve Awareness and Practice

R. Carl Harris, Steve Kroeger, Annie Bauer, Janice Glaspie, Darwin Henderson, Cathy Burton, Joy Lohrer, 

Guy W. Jones, and Sally Moomaw

This interactive CD-ROM and accompanying activity guide provide immediate access to powerful, living, classroom examples of culturally responsive teaching.  The CD contains four videos broken into clips and grouped by topic and classroom.  The activity guide offers activities and questions that guide students toward understanding, analyzing, and synthesizing the video cases. In addition, the CD programming allows users to isolate video segments and use them to build their own customized teaching portfolio.

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Model Lessons for Literacy Instruction

Virtual Classroom Experiences

R. Carl Harris, D. Ray Reutzel, Robert B. Cooter

This CD-ROM contains video clips of four different classrooms, each following a master teacher working through the stages of a reading lesson.  There are lessons on phonemic awareness, guided reading, comprehension strategies, and writing workshop.  As you carefully observe each lesson you will view many literacy processes put into practice and, unlike any field experience, you can watch them as many times as youíd like, reflecting on the decisions made and the strengths and weaknesses in each procedure.  The Study Builder and Custom Studies feature allowing you to think through your observations, assess and deepen your understandings, and share your conclusions by creating your own studies.

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The Literature Circles Case

Responding to Literature in an 8th Grade Classroom

R. Carl Harris, Gail Tompkins, and Laurie Goodman

This interactive CD allows users to observe a classroom teacher engaging students in a popular instructional approach.  Over thirty video segments illustrate how to set up literature circles, the roles students play in literature circles and literature discussions that demonstrate students responding to the books they have read.  Each video segment is supported by comments from professional literature, a literacy expert, the classroom teacher, a teaching peer and the seventh grade students.  In addition, the CD programming allows users to isolate video segments and use them to build their own customized teaching portfolio, demonstrating their understanding of the use of literature circles.

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Writing Workshop

Four Classroom Applications

Gail Tompkins and R. Carl Harris

This CD-ROM will help you deepen your understanding of writing workshop, an important part of language arts teaching, so that you can use it confidently in your own classroom.  By highlighting four diverse classrooms, five masterful teachers, insights from the teachers as well as Gail Tompkins, and opportunities for you to consider real classroom artifacts, reflect on the content, keep notes and an online journal, even create your own case study, this CD will help you develop a firmer grasp on the teaching strategies being covered as it helps you envision yourself in the classroom.  You will be able to watch, again and again, masterful teachers in diverse classrooms, and reflect on their teaching to help you uncover and revisit the many layers of decision making involved in masterful teaching.  You can stop the action, reflect on the teaching moment, consider the decisions being made and their outcomes, and grow in your own mastery of teaching.

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