- Inside Our Schools Award

Purpose

The Inside Our Schools category is designed to enable teachers and students to document learning activities in the classroom. This teacher-student collaboration will give viewers an opportunity to observe authentic learning activities taking place in the classroom. The project will demonstrate how teacher planning and student engagement are involved in effective learning.

Project Guidelines

This teacher-planned and student-produced project should include the following elements:

The introduction should clearly articulate the purpose of the unit or learning activity, which may include specific state standards and learning objectives for students. This section also should inform the viewer about the activities to follow.
The body of the project should show examples of actual activities in which students are engaged.
The final segment should include an evaluation and reflection on the unit or learning activity by the teacher(s) and the students.

The project may include various types of media production within this framework.

Award

Projects submitted in this category that follow the guidelines above will be considered for an Inside Our Schools award. A cash prize of $300 will be awarded to the project selected as a first-place winner, along with the gratitude of AECT, your school, and your community. If the judges select a second-place winning project, $200 will be awarded.

2011 Recipient

No eligible projects were submitted in 2011.

2010 First Place Recipients

Joan Harris’ Third Grade Class

University Elementary School

Bloomington, Indiana

Mrs. Harris’ 3rd-grade students wrote, filmed, edited, and starred in Our Prairie Garden (watch it here). This video shares an innovative, hands-on lesson that included preparing planting beds for an experiment with prairie plants and a year-long study of growth and propagation. This is an excellent example of an Inside Our Schools project. Congratulations to all who made this student production possible!

2010 Second Place Recipients

Cody Crljen, Trevor Hutchens, and Madison Shepard

Lakewood Christian Schools

Long Beach, California

Three seventh-grade students worked together to produce a lively Inside Our Schools video. Their production provides an overview of the engaging Physical Education program at Lakewood Christian Schools in Long Beach, CA.

Watch Feel the Burn…Just a Little and see if you too will start jumping around.

2009 Recipient

No eligible projects were entered in 2009.

2008 Recipient

Brendan Michaelson

Lora Batchelor Middle School

Bloomington, Indiana

Brendan Michaelson was an 8^th grader at Lora Batchelor Middle School in 2008. He produced a live action video entitled Educational Best Practices: Mock Trial (watch it here). This project showcases an outstanding learning opportunity for 8th-grade students in the form of a mock trial. Brendan’s sponsor was Jeff Rudkin, our 2007 Connelly Award winner.