Since I’ve started planning online and blended courses for the University of Delaware’s Additional Certification in ESOL/Bilingual initiative, I’ve been hunting down good (and free!) videos, teaching demos, and webinars to share with teachers. In the interests of sharing the wealth (and not losing the links for myself!), here is my completely subjective list of useful teaching videos.
Teaching Ideas
- WIDA Video Competition winners & highlights
- The Teaching Channel — all ELL videos
- The Teaching Channel — teaching math to ELLs in high school
- The Teaching Channel — sentence frames for math in elementary school
- The Teaching Channel — text analysis through student talk
- Colorin Colorado YouTube channel
- PreK/K teaching examples, Center for Research of Education, Diversity, and Excellence (University of Hawai’i)
- ELLs with Learning Disabilities
Teaching/Learning Cycle
- Great example of Joint Construction – a 5th-grade class in Australia writing a summary of a video (Primary English Teaching Association, Australia)
- Demos of each stage of the reading-to-learn pedagogy (New South Wales, Board of Studies)
SFL/SFL-related videos
- Stanford Understanding Language, ELA sample unit
- Mary Schleppegrell’s lecture on SFL language pedagogy at ISFC 37
- Mary Schleppegrell’s recorded webinar at the University of Michigan on using SFL metalanguage
- Interview with Sally Humphreys and Beverly Derewianka on using SFL pedagogy in the primary classroom (Primary English Teaching Association, Australia)
- Webinar: Scaffolding oral interactions for language learning, Understanding Language, Stanford (Jeff Zwiers)
- Annabel Leukin’s introduction to SFL
Grammar Teaching
- Keith Folse and Debra Crusan on the challenge of teaching teachers to teach grammar (University of Michigan Press)
- Diane Larsen-Freeman on the audio-lingual method
Phonetics and Phonology
- Three great videos from the University of British Columbia on consonant sounds, vowel sounds, and the IPA.
- Webinar: Using the Color Vowel Chart (US State Department, American English; presented by Karen Taylor & Shirley Thompson)
Policy and Laws Regarding ELLs (U.S.)
- Kenji Hakuta (Stanford Understanding Language): From MLK to Lau to Common Core
Mix and Misc
Nigel Caplan 