Research Guides: Early Childhood Education: Videos & Movies

Video & Movie Databases

Films on Demand Academic Collection
A web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group both on and off-campus. This collection includes more than 30,000 educational titles in the humanities & social sciences; science; business and economics; and health.
Alexander Street Press Academic Video Online
Academic Video Online: Premium includes over 65,000 videos every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
Kanopy
Kanopy is a film streaming service, offering over 12,000 streaming films from over 30 suppliers, with new films added daily. This database includes films from the Criterion Collection, PBS, Psychotherapy.net, New Day Films, and many others.

Videos - Early Childhood

The Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited
The videos, which were shot in 2004, are of Komatsudani Hoikuen (Daycare Center) in Kyoto, Japan; Daguan Youeryuan (Kindergarten) in Kunming, China; St. Timothy's Child Center, in Honolulu, Hawaii; Madoka Yochien (Kindergarten) in Tokyo, Japan; Sinanlu Youeryuan (Kindergarten) in Shanghai, China; and Alhambra Preschool in Phoenix, Arizona. Running Time: 112 mins; 2013
Revolve Learning: YouTube
Useful YouTube channel of teaching best practices. Throughout her professional career spanning nearly 15 years, Joscelyn N. Reed served as an award-winning master teacher and Instructional Coach in charter and public school districts in SE Washington D.C and Prince George's County, Maryland.
Measures of Effective Teaching Extension Collection - University of Michigan
"The METX collection features authentic classroom videos. Not only are the videos and audios minimally edited, capturing and portraying education practice as it played out in real time."
Classroom Instruction Videos - Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
These videos depict a range of practice to support within-district calibration activities that promote a shared understanding of instructional quality. Select the video(s) that best meet your needs by grade, content area, or length.
Teaching Video Resources- Lehman College Education Technology
List of freely available teaching videos, with resources to support their use in teacher training.
Best Foot Forward: Video Observation Toolkit - Center for Education Policy Research, Harvard University
This toolkit provides practical guidance for education practitioners on using video observations to help teachers accelerate their development.
Colorado Department of Education: Improving Academic Achievement, Results Matter Video Library
This set of videos were produced to help providers better understand ways to use observation, documentation, and assessment to inform practice
Video Library - Connect: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge
Browsable video library focused on early childhood development and learning
Discovery Education: Free Teacher Resources
Free classroom resources, including lesson plans and learning activities
Harvard University, Center on the Developing Child: In Brief Series Videos
This series of short videos is complemented by companion one-sheet briefs, designed to be printed on one page, front and back
PBS Teacher Source
Content available by grade level, subjects, standards, and more
TeacherTube
An online community for sharing instructional videos
The Desired Results Access Project Video Library
Napa County Office of Education, Research and Professional Development Center
Funded by California Department of Education, Special Education Division

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Videos - Early Childhood