The Academically Productive Talk Project's
Video Libary
These videos are windows into authentic classrooms in which teachers are at various stages of learning to use APT as a pedagogical tool. While several of these videos feature teachers who have received training in APT, the video archive is not intended exclusively as a showcase for high quality practice. Rather than serving as models, the videos are intended to provide common referents for discussion about APT.
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Language Arts
Building a Venn Diagram to Compare Characters
Language Arts, Grade 1
Understanding Sleep
Language Arts, Grade 1
Categorizing Words that end with -ING
Language Arts, Grade 2
What is a Galimoto?
Language Arts, Grade 2
Grounded, A Poem by Nikki Grimes
Language Arts, Grade 4
School Dress Codes: Should Uniforms be Required?
Language Arts, Grade 4
When is it Acceptable to Break the Rules? Character Perspectives
Language Arts, Grade 4
When is it Acceptable to Break the Rules? Student Debate
Language Arts, Grade 4
Black Cowboy, Wild Horses
Language Arts, Grade 4-5
Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
Language Arts, Grade 4-5
Elena: Considering a Characters' Actions
Language Arts, Grade 4-5
Pioneer Girl: Growing up on the Prairie
Language Arts, Grade 4-5
RMS Titanic: What if it Hadn't Sunk?
Language Arts, Grade 4-5
Understanding Hurricanes
Language Arts, Grade 5
My Mother Enters the Workforce, a poem by Rita Dove
Language Arts, Grade 6
Emmett Till: His Life as a Black Teenager in 1955 Chicago
Language Arts, Grade 7
Game: A Fictional Story about a NYC Basketball Team
Language Arts, Grade 7
Physician Assisted Suicide
Language Arts, Grade 8
Which Character has More Power?
Language Arts, Grade 8
Contextualization: Thomas Hobbes Author of the Leviathan, 1651
Language Arts, Grade 10
Song of Myself, A Poem by Walt Whitman
Language Arts, High School
