Category: Teaching Resources
Tools That Will Help You Save Time
Video production teachers juggle far more than cameras, editing, and lesson plans. From grading...
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SkillsUSA for the AV Teacher: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Started
Ask an AVTF teacher why they aren’t involved with SkillsUSA and you’re likely to hear...
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Confidence is a Skill, Not a Gift
Students build confidence through experience and are not necessarily born with it. They...
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A Gardener One Day, an Architect the Next. Planning for the New School Year
The best plan for a new school year for a broadcast – video production teacher is trusting...
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You Are Going To Have To Create More Content
My fear is coming true. Several years ago, I told someone that video teachers are soon going to be measured more by what their program produces in terms of content than by what they produce in terms of student outcomes. It’s happening… and it’s happening FAST!
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Succession: Filling Someone Else’s Shoes
Overwhelmed by the expectations from an established AVTF program you are now leading? Here are...
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Student Feedback Made Me a Better Broadcast Teacher
Discover how one broadcast teacher used simple student surveys to improve lessons, increase...
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Teaching To The Test Pattern: Jennifer Gaines from Statesboro (GA) High
Her ninth graders are coming in already comfortable on camera. They grew up on TikTok. They can...
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Teaching To The Test Pattern: Jamey Trask from Fayetteville High School (GA)
A kid turns in a project. It’s fine. It’s turned in on time, the audio is clean,...
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Teaching To The Test Pattern: Mark Hendren from Helena High School
The highlights were crap.
Mark Hendren will tell you that himself. He was a teenager at Mississippi State. The cameraman who was supposed to shoot highlights for TV stations across the Southeast didn’t show. Mark said he could do it. He had never done it. He had watched someone do it. He said yes anyway.
The footage was bad. But the guy who was supposed to be there came back the next day and taught him. Zoomed in on this. Pulled back this way. This is how I do it. Mark learned. He went on to shoot for ESPN in his teens, work all four TV stations in Birmingham, and build a career that a whole other podcast could cover.
He’s three years into the classroom now. Helena High School. Teaching broadcast.
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Teaching To The Test Pattern: Billy Dunn from the Albertville Innovation Academy
He outproduced NASA. Seven cameras to their four at the Huntsville Space and Rocket Center. And at the end of the year, he sat down and told me he didn’t think he grew.
This conversation with Billy Dunn from Albertville Innovation Academy is one of the most honest things we’ve put on this podcast. Billy came from Fox 6 in Birmingham — gold standard broadcast — walked into a classroom, and is now three years in, running five jumbotrons across five sports, building a state-level AV teacher conference from scratch, and wondering if he’s doing it right. The answer might surprise you.
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Teaching To The Test Pattern: Savannah State University Dean David Marshall
Dean David Marshall of Savannah State’s CMAC program on project-based journalism education, HBCU media excellence, and what accountability really looks like at the top.
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