Teachers deserve all the support they can get. Hovering parents, unrealistic government interveners, ungrateful school children all gang up to maul the most-well intentioned, high-stamina educator. Along comes Teachers.TV to some semblance of a rescue.
Teachers.tv is one component of an actual teacher-specific television channel (Teacher’s TV), and a broadband website. All video production is done for that broadcast channel. A portion of those videos migrate to and are narrowcast on Teachers.tv.
Both the tv and broadband channel are designed to cater to anyone working in education, from prinicpals, to veteran teachers down to Newly Qualified Teachers; from governors to support staff. “Governors”? Not the legislative kind, but the “headmaster/headmistress” kind. You see this website is from the U.K.
Frankly, since the world is again flat, thanks in part to the Internet, any English-speaking educator could find value in at least one of the hundreds of programs available online and on Teachers.tv. There are programs for the full range of educational occupations, including support and administrative staffers.
In addition to viewing the video, support materials are immediately present on the site. These materials include labels for Length (running time); Subjects (the video addresses); and Roles (if the video is intended for an education professional or for a student). Also included are a Synopsis and links to Related Videos.
I viewed “School Year-School Production”, a five-minute video discussing the elements of putting on a school play. Did you know to plan to lose up to one-third of your potential cast once the students realize the amount of hard work necessary to stage a play? I didn’t. This video makes one think about and plan for things like that.
The programs rely on interviews and instruction from actual instructors in actual U.K. schools. The overall site presentation is crisp and user-friendly. Specifically speaking, not every concept is transferable as different countries employ different curriculums within any subject. However, generally, what’s presented here may surely re-kindle a veteran teacher’s harried spark, and could certainly assist an overwhelmed NQT into gaining some perspective. Bravo.
Teachers.tv streams in Windows Media Player and is also available in Podcast format too.
