Teaching Channel is a multi-platform service founded in 2010 delivering

professional development Professional development, also known as professional education, is learning that leads to or emphasizes education in a specific professional career field or builds practical job applicable skills emphasizing Praxis (process), praxis in addition t ...

videos for teachers over the Internet. In addition to showcasing inspiring teachers in videos, Teaching Channel also hosts a community for educators to share ideas, best practices and enhance their knowledge. Started as a

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, the company was converted to a for-profit in 2017.

Goals

The stated mission of Teaching Channel is to revolutionize how teachers learn, connect, and inspire each other to improve the outcomes for all students in America. To accomplish this, Teaching Channel has established three goals: * Build teacher-driven professional learning * Deepen and improve opportunities for teacher learning * Elevate and celebrate teachers in our society Prior to its conversion to a for-profit business, the

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provided a $3.5 million grant to help fund the educational service.

Topics and subjects

The videos on the Teaching Channel website cover a variety of subjects and classroom topics for teachers at all grade levels: from

kindergarten Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th cen ...

through

high school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., ...

. Videos on the site are categorized in several ways: by grade level, by subject area, including

Math Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

, English Language Arts (ELA),

Science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

and

History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

, and by topic. The topic list includes: planning, class culture, class management, engagement, differentiation, assessment, collaboration, common core, new teachers, English Language Learners, growth mindset, and social and emotional learning. Teaching Channel also partners with other innovative companies to deliver videos on new topics. They teamed up with the Boeing Company to develop a curriculum series on engineering and with Common Sense Media to develop a series of 9 videos covering digital literacy and the ELA Common Core Standards. Teaching Channel's videos are used by many teachers, schools and school districts around the country to enhance professional development.

Online community size

The online community for Teaching Channel is a forum for teachers where they can reach out to other educators to get guidance on teaching methods, strategies, lesson plans and curriculum. Currently there are nearly 1 million members of the community, made up of teachers, administrators, coaches, and educational support personnel. In early 2013, Teaching Channel launched a new Q&A section that allows teachers to ask questions and get advice from other educators. In late 2016, Teaching Channel launched a new Deep Dives section that curates video and blog content, as well as external partner content, on a range of topics from growth mindset to new teachers. Mike Smith is the President of Teaching Channel. Sarah Brown Wessling, 2010 National Teacher of the Year, is one of 10 Teaching Channel Laureates. Sarah and the other laureates write regularly for the Tcher's Voice blog.

Teaching Channel Presents

Teaching Channel Presents was the title of the weekly broadcast show that aired on public television stations across the country. Each hour-long episode featured some of the videos from Teaching Channel's website.

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External links

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