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| Episode | Chapter | Title | Description | Approximate Length(minutes) |
| 1 DVD 1 |
1 | Demonstrating knowledge in classrooms | This episode illustrates a kindergarten teacher, middle school teacher, and two high school teachers demonstrating different forms of teacher knowledge. | 14 |
| 2 DVD 1 |
2 | Examining learner thinking: Piaget's conservation tasks | In this episode, students of different ages respond to Piaget's famous conservation tasks. | 5 |
| 3 DVD 1 |
2 | Developmental differences: Studying properties of air in first grade | This episode illustrates the thinking of first graders as they try to explain why water doesn't enter a glass inverted in a bowl of water, and why a card doesn't fall off an inverted cup full of water. | 4 |
| 4 DVD 1 |
3 | Moral reasoning: Examining a moral dilemma | This episode illustrates the moral reasoning of students at different ages when they are presented with a moral dilemmas. | 4 |
| 5 DVD 1 |
4 | Culturally responsive teaching | In this episode a teacher discusses with an interviewer the accommodations she has made in her classroom for a student of Islamic faith, and the support her other students provide. | 5 |
| 6 DVD 1 |
5 | Reviewing an IEP | In this episode a teacher team discusses an IEP with a concerned parent. | 5 |
| 7 DVD 1 |
5 | Using peer tutoring with students having exceptionalities | This episode illustrates children conducting a flashcard drill as a form of peer tutoring. | 5 |
| 8 DVD 1 |
6 | Using reinforcement in classrooms | In this episode a second grade teacher uses a considerable amount of positive reinforcement combined with some presentation punishment as a part of her classroom-management system. | 7 |
| 9 DVD 1 |
6 | Demonstrating problem solving in high school chemistry | This episode illustrates a high school teacher using direct modeling to demonstrate the steps involved in solving chemistry problems. | 8 |
| 10 DVD 1 |
7 | Applying information processing: Attracting students' attention | This episode illustrates two teachers attempting to begin their lesson with a demonstration that will attract students' attention. | 8 |
| 11 DVD 1 |
7 | Applying information processing: Organizing information | This episode includes four teachers using different ways of organizing information for students. | 6 |
| 12 DVD 1 |
7 | Applying information processing: The Scarlet Letter in high school English class | This episode illustrates a teacher's attempts to help her students understand the characters in the novel The Scarlet Letter. (It is also the chapter's closing case study.) | 9 |
| 13 DVD 1 |
8 | Constructing knowledge of beam balances | This episode illustrates the thinking of fourth graders as they attempt to construct understanding of the principle that makes beams balance. (It is also the chapter's opening case study, and it is integrated throughout the chapter.) | 9 |
| 14 DVD 1 |
8 | Constructing concepts: Using concrete examples | In this episode one middle school teacher uses a concrete example to illustrate the concept bilateral symmetry, and a second middle school teacher uses the same strategy to teach the concept concrete poem. | 10 |
| 15 DVD 1 |
9 | Using a problem-solving model: Finding area in elementary math | This episode involves fifth graders' attempts to find the area of the carpeted portion of their classroom, which is an irregular shape. (It is also the chapter's opening case study.) | 11 |
| 16 DVD 2 |
9 | Guiding students' problem solving: Graphing in second grade | In this episode a second grade teacher uses a problem-solving approach to help her students understand bar graphs. (It is also the chapter's closing case study.) | 14 |
| 17 DVD 2 |
10 | Applying cognitive motivation theory: Writing paragraphs in 5th grade | In this episode a fifth grade teacher has her students involved in writing, displaying, and evaluating each others' paragraphs. | 13 |
| 18 DVD 2 |
11 | Applying the motivation model: Studying arthropods in 5th grade | The same teacher as in Episode 17 is attempting to use an intrinsically interesting activity to help her students understand the concept arthropod. (It is also the chapter's opening case study.) | 13 |
| 19 DVD 2 |
12 | Establishing and practicing classroom rules | In this episode a second grade teacher is attempting to help her students understand a set of classroom rules, and later in the episode she conducts a review of the rules. | 6 |
| 20 DVD 2 |
13 | Analyzing instructional alignment | In this episode a fifth grade teacher covers a variety of topics related to the Civil War. | 10 |
| 21 DVD 2 |
13 | Essential teaching skills in an urban classroom | The teacher in this episode is attempting to demonstrate the Essential Teaching Skills with his middle school students. | 13 |
| 22 DVD 2 |
13 | Guided discovery in an elementary classroom | In this episode a fifth grade teacher uses Guided Discovery to help her students understand Haiku poetry. | 10 |
| 23 DVD 2 |
14 | Laptops for data in 5th grade | Students in this episode gather and enter information on laptop computers in their classroom. | 5 |
| 24 DVD 2 |
14 | Using PowerPoint in the classroom | In this episode a world history teacher uses a PowerPoint presentation to provide her students with information on ancient Greece. | 5 |
| 25 DVD 2 |
15 | Using assessment in decision making | The teacher in this episode uses a variety of assessment data to make instructional decisions about teaching her students to add fractions. | 15 |
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