Ideas Roadshow’s School Portal offers an extensive database which is relevant for ALL secondary school curricula. If you are interested in specific resources for the IB Diploma Programme, please click HERE for details about Ideas Roadshow’s IBDP Portal.
What Makes This Award-Winning Database Unique?
We’ve filmed in-depth conversations with more than 100 top researchers across the arts and sciences, including three Nobel Laureates. From those conversations we’ve created fully-accessible video resources that go beyond the standard curriculum to enrich classes, bring teaching to life and provide effective tools for professional development and learning.
Both teachers and students strongly engage with captivating insights into the world of frontline research across a wide range of disciplines while at the same time learning about the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research.
More than 750 interdisciplinary videos and accompanying materials can be accessed through a user-friendly interface which is easy to navigate. It offers a detailed search function, a user’s guide video and other supporting materials.
Inspiration To Succeed
It is well known that when students engage with educational videos, their motivation to succeed increases. However, students may not always be able to decide who is an actual expert and which videos are reliable when they search platforms, like YouTube, that they are already familiar with.
Student engagement can be fostered by providing them with Ideas Roadshow’s carefully-curated, authoritative videos featuring world-leading experts. The resources have a strong potential to ignite their curiosity, foster critical thinking and encourage academic excellence. They can be used to successfully initiate and complete research projects and for independent learning. In addition, students can discover their passion in a wide range of academic subjects to make them better informed to choose the right field of study.
Experts In The Classroom
Teachers are able to bring experts talking about what they know best directly into the classroom to explore real-world applications of academic concepts. The different video formats resonate strongly with students and capture their attention to increase the transfer of knowledge.
The database provides captivating, research-based content across multiple disciplines, fostering critical thinking, inquiry-based learning, and interdisciplinary connections. By having access to a comprehensive database of videos in different formats, teachers are able to enrich their lessons and make it easier to engage students with the materials presented.
Professional Development (PD)
Ideas Roadshow’s School Portal also offers a large spectrum of PD materials, including a wide range of explanatory videos featuring world-leading researchers specialized in autism, Asperger syndrome, ADHD, schizophrenia, suicide, bilingualism, bullying, grieving, positive/negative emotions, competition, peer pressure, the science of learning, sleep science, memory improvement, social psychology, growth/fixed mindset and more.
In addition, the database offers videos on how to improve teaching history, psychology, physics and other subjects plus a range of videos highlighting how top researchers were inspired by their teachers to follow their passions which led them to become the top experts in their chosen fields that they are today.
Resources For 15 Subjects
- Asian Studies
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Education
- Environment
- History
- Law
- Mathematics
- Neuroscience
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Politics
- Psychology
- Religious Studies
- Social Studies
Key-Concept Clips: short videos with an intro – helpful to explain and understand new concepts
Compilations/modules: different perspectives on a single topic and questions for discussion
One-hour conversations with a short intro and set-up in short chapters for easy use
Host and creator is Howard Burton. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy. Howard has extensive experience in research, teaching and creating pedagogical, multimedia resources for different audiences. He is also the author of 6 books and a documentary filmmaker creating films based on meticulous research. He was the Founding Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
LBF International Excellence Award & Library Journal Review
“Ideas Roadshow’s resources make cutting-edge research concepts accessible to learners and educators with different needs through a careful, high-quality editing process and the production of a spectrum of innovative, engaging formats.”
“The different formats available make this an accessible product, as does the handling of the material. This remarkable product is enthusiastically recommended for school libraries.”
For a tree trial of all resources, please contact our partner, InTa – Innovative Teachers Academy.
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