5 ways using videos can enhance your teaching

By Kristy Turner2023-06-07T08:30:00

$Girl sat cross-legged on an undulating wave of film tape with images of a tree, vanilla ice cream, fractional distillation, electromagnetic waves and a beaker containing purple liquid with a syringe standing in it popping up in front of her.$

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Discover teacher-tested ways that videos can support both learners and educators

The use of video has exploded in recent years, from topic screencasts to career clips to popular science. Many of you may have engaged more with recorded content due to remote teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the midst of this explosion, and with students back in classrooms, it’s a good time to consider, what are the best uses of videos in regular classes? Chemistry teacher fellow Kristy Turner has revisited her use of videos in her teaching to give you five tried-and-tested ways videos can support learning.

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