Instructional VideoWhat makes a teaching video work, and where attention reliably drops.EducationA video is an explanation with the teacher's checks removed. Add them back.DesignSix minutes or less per segmentShow the working, not just the resultSpeak conversationally, in first personDraw on screen as you talkCut the introduction and the musicUseSet a question to answer while watchingPause and check, do not play it throughFollow with retrieval, not with discussion aloneExpect passive watching without a taskProvide captions and a transcriptGuo and colleagues found engagement drops sharply past six minutes.Watching feels like understanding, which is why the check matters.Instructional Videolearnposters.com
Instructional Video — printable humanities wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Instructional Video poster

10 entries in 2 groups.

A video is an explanation with the teacher's checks removed. Add them back.

Guo and colleagues found engagement drops sharply past six minutes. Watching feels like understanding, which is why the check matters.

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What’s on the Instructional Video poster?
10 entries in 2 groups. A video is an explanation with the teacher's checks removed. Add them back. Design: Six minutes or less per segment, Show the working, not just the result, Speak…; Use: Set a question to answer while watching, Pause and check, do not play it through…. Guo and colleagues found engagement drops sharply past six minutes. Watching feels like understanding, which is why the check matters.
Who is the Instructional Video poster for?
Instructional Video belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning educational technology can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Instructional Video poster?
Use it when recording explanations or selecting video for pupils to watch. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Instructional Video belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Instructional Video?
Adaptive Software, Generative AI In Teaching and Digital Natives sit alongside Instructional Video in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Adaptive SoftwareGenerative AI In TeachingDigital Natives
Is the Instructional Video poster free to download and print?
Yes. Instructional Video downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Instructional Video poster print at?
Instructional Video is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Instructional Video loses nothing.Printing guide

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