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Title: How Difficult Can This Be?--'F.A.T. City: A Learning Disabilities Workshop
Description: This unique program lets viewers experience the frustration, anxiety, and tension faced by children with learning disabilities. Workshop facilitator...
Description: This unique program lets viewers experience the frustration, anxiety, and tension faced by children with learning disabilities. Workshop facilitator Richard Lavoie presents a series of striking simulations emulating daily experience of LD children. Teachers, social workers, and parents, workshop participants, reflect upon how the workshop changed their approach to LD children. Includes discussion of mainstreaming discipline and self-concept.
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Year: 1989
Title: Last One Picked, First One Picked On
Description: Playing with friends is a happy ritual for most children. But kids with learning disabilities are often isolated and rejected, lacking the social...
Description: Playing with friends is a happy ritual for most children. But kids with learning disabilities are often isolated and rejected, lacking the social skills to make and keep friends. Richard Lavoie shows how to help these kids succeed in every-day situations. This program gives parents and teachers greater understanding of social skill deficits and strategies for developing skills and fostering social competence.
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Year: 1994
Title: Still Killing us softly (1987)
Description: Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning films have...
Description: Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning films have influenced millions of college and high school students across two generations and on an international scale. In this important new film, Kilbourne reviews if and how the image of women in advertising has changed over the last 20 years. With wit and warmth, Kilbourne uses over 160 ads and commercials to critique advertising's image of women. By fostering creative and productive dialogue, she invites viewers to look at familiar images in a new way, that moves and empowers them to take action.
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Year: 1995
View Embed CodeTitle: Classroom Discipline
Description: A common error made by new teachers is attempting to impose authority on a classroom rather than encouraging students to manage themselves. In this...
Description: A common error made by new teachers is attempting to impose authority on a classroom rather than encouraging students to manage themselves. In this program, acclaimed presenter Dr. Richard Curwin and noted educator and school psychologist Dr. Allen Mendler argue that students can develop internal controls and self-responsibility when teachers alter their traditionally adversarial classroom role. Drs. Curwin and Mendler are also cofounders of Discipline Associates and coauthors of Discipline with Dignity, Taking Charge in the Classroom, and The Discipline Book: A Complete Guide to School and Classroom Management. (28 minutes)
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Year: 1991
Title: Performance Assessment: Moving Beyond the Standardized Test
Description: In an age of multicultural classrooms and new understandings about multiple intelligences, what role should standardized tests play? And what...
Description: In an age of multicultural classrooms and new understandings about multiple intelligences, what role should standardized tests play? And what direction should performance assessment take in tomorrow's schools? In this timeless program, Dr. Art Costa-Professor Emeritus at California State University, Former President of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and a leading proponent of the explicit teaching of thinking-addresses the urgent need to create viable alternatives to standardized tests that can measure creativity, problem-solving, and cooperation. (29 minutes)
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Year: 1993
Title: Multiple Intelligences: Other Styles of Learning
Description: Historically, student progress has been gauged by success in subjects that tap the verbal/linguistic and logical/mathematical talents of students,...
Description: Historically, student progress has been gauged by success in subjects that tap the verbal/linguistic and logical/mathematical talents of students, inevitably leading to the disenfranchisement of learners weak in these areas. In this program, David Lazear, author of Seven Ways of Knowing and Seven Ways of Teaching and founder of New Dimensions of Learning, contends that educators must ensure the success of all students by teaching for the five nontraditional intelligences as well: visual/spatial, musical/rhythmic, body/kinesthetic, intrapersonal, and interpersonal. (30 minutes, color)
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Year: 1993
Title: Understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Description: Found in both children and adults, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is looked upon by some as having a physiological cause while others see it...
Description: Found in both children and adults, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is looked upon by some as having a physiological cause while others see it as a psychological disorder. This program offers diverse and candid opinions from both sides of the debate. Is medication the best treatment, or is behavior modification combined with increased structure and discipline the preferable course? A classroom teacher, a social worker, a behavior specialist, a pediatrician, and a parent with twins who have ADHD offer their insights. A Meridian Production. (20 minutes)
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Year: 1996
Title: Understanding Learning Disabilities
Description: How could a child be a top math student yet not be able to read? Why can another child read well but not be able to write a paragraph that makes...
Description: How could a child be a top math student yet not be able to read? Why can another child read well but not be able to write a paragraph that makes sense? While watching children being taught new ways to learn, this program offers expert insight into the nature of learning disabilities, why learning disabilities may also be accompanied by ADHD or social disorders, and what can be done to help children learn to compensate and succeed. A Meridian Production. (16 minutes)
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Year: 1996
Title: Doing What Comes Naturally: Childhood Language Acquisition
Description: Born with no apparent knowledge of language, humans generally attain a basic mastery of their mother tongue in the course of only a few years. How do...
Description: Born with no apparent knowledge of language, humans generally attain a basic mastery of their mother tongue in the course of only a few years. How do they do it? In this program, Dr. Jonathan Miller builds a case for Noam Chomsky's theory of a universal grammar and deflates misconceptions about childhood language acquisition while raising some very intriguing questions of his own. Dr. Miller's systematic investigation of a child's structured capability for acquiring language and the elaborate social supports that facilitate language acquisition results in a clear and engaging exposition of a captivating topic. (47 minutes)
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Year: 1990
Title: Lending a Hand: Sign Languages and the Deaf
Description: Complex and highly sophisticated, sign languages have proved excellent tools for analyzing the foundation of human language capability. In this...
Description: Complex and highly sophisticated, sign languages have proved excellent tools for analyzing the foundation of human language capability. In this program, Dr. Jonathan Miller weaves together the history of sign languages for the Deaf with insights into the natural synergy between language, vision, and dexterity to support his conviction that there is a common mental structure underlying all languages, regardless of their outward expression. Along the way, Dr. Miller skewers a number of enduring misconceptions-for example, that sign languages are purely iconic and therefore incapable of conveying abstract ideas. (47 minutes)
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Year: 1990