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United States history resource.Resources, lessons help teach a more inclusive version of U.S. history. Multiple pathways to a range of resource types. Links to other history resources are included.

We must teach students how to navigate in an unjust world, but also teach them how to change it. Educators talk about teaching the basics-reading, writing, and math-but shouldn't teaching students how to stand up, fight back, and work for justice be mandatory curriculum for a democratic society? This website was created by Linda Christenson (2004), who developed the PTAB (Target, Perpetrator, Ally, Bystander) strategy. It explains the strategy in depth, and provides additional information, lesson examples and resources which may be used.

The Australian School Library Association Inc. (ASLA) is a national authority, a peak forum in the field of teacher librarianship and school library resource services. Its aim is to maximise opportunities for students to obtain independent lifelong learning and decision making skills through ASLA's commitment to : high professional standards; awareness of advances and changes in technology and the competence and ability to teach and use it; effective, cooperative use of school resource services by the whole school community; qualified teacher librarians with an image of excellence and optimum use of the dual skills of teaching and librarianship.

The art of teaching is based on a careful match between best practices and individual learner needs. The Literacy Specialists consultants bring you the following tips and tools to support your best practice instruction and to give you a window into their unique talents as educators. Free resources on reading - fluency, nonfiction, comprehension, vocabulary, read alouds,

The art of teaching is based on a careful match between best practices and individual learner needs. The Literacy Specialists consultants bring you the following tips and tools to support your best practice instruction and to give you a window into their unique talents as educators.Free resources on reading - fluency, nonfiction, comprehension, vocabulary, read alouds,

DPLA Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture through primary sources. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. Although content is American, the sets cover topics of relevance to global issues on immigration, slavery, prejudice, exploration and so forth. They can also be used to support the teaching of the use of primary sources.

A teaching strategy to help students make connections between the ideas in readings, their own experiences and beliefs, and events in history and the world. Facing History offers teaching strategies that nurture students growth; literacy and critical thinking skills within a respectful classroom climate. By giving a purpose to students' reading (i.e. focusing students on paying close attention to text to find connections), this strategy helps students comprehend and make meaning of the ideas in the text. This strategy can be used when reading any text - historical or literary - and it can also be used with other media as well, including films. It can be used at the beginning, middle or end of the reading process - to get students engaged with a text, to help students understand the text more deeply or to evaluate students' understanding of the text.

This free database is available to everyone anywhere in the world. It is especially useful for those working with children. Besides annotations for each of the 300+ books and hyperlinks to free teaching resources, we have included many different ways to find just the 'right' books. There are Australian curriculum links, the Early Years Learning Framework links, author, title, publisher, date, subject access and free text searching. You can find books in specific languages, books written and illustrated by children, or books by your favourite authors and illustrators, for example. You can share what you find with colleagues using social media links.

What do you look for when selecting print texts for your high school students to teach them about visual literacy? Appropriate themes, complexity of ideas, rich and beautiful illustrations, evidence of depth and layers of meaning, a variety of text type. This post present 6 titles that meet each of those requirements with the added bonus of all being by Australian authors and illustrators. Teachers notes and essays are provided for each title

Scan reviews eresources, websites and other learning and teaching resources in the context of the curriculum. Reviews indicate user level, curriculum connections, resource type by icon and SCIS numbers. Includes a link to downloadable pdf: Aboriginal Education K-12 Resource Guide

Galileo Educational Network from Calgary, Alberta. In addition to providing research, resources and professional development on teaching and learning from an inquiry stance, the Galileo Network has also created the Galileo Inquiry Rubric. Designed with purpose of making inquiry more concrete and accessible, the Galileo rubric is intended to be used by teachers in the design and evaluation of inquiry-based teaching.

A great resource for teaching literature in the classroom. Includes a literature circle resource centre, middle grade teachers blog and themed literature units

The 2013 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

This site provides content - theory, resources, strategies around the teaching of literacy. Pages are devoted to fiction, non-fiction, genres, age groups and numerous other organisers.

This site provides content - theory, resources, strategies around the teaching of literacy. Pages are devoted to fiction, non-fiction, genres, age groups and numerous other organisers.

FlipSnack Edu takes classes to a whole new level and makes learning fun, being an ideal tool for teachers and students to collaborate and share their work with parents and colleagues. Create a private network for your class, where you can safely share assignments, curriculums, reading materials and various projects as flipping books. Great resource for flip teaching and e-learning.

FlipSnack Edu takes classes to a whole new level and makes learning fun, being an ideal tool for teachers and students to collaborate and share their work with parents and colleagues. Create a private network for your class, where you can safely share assignments, curriculums, reading materials and various projects as flipping books. Great resource for flip teaching and e-learning.

How To Determine A Student's Prior Knowledge is one of many articles and resource for teacher to help connect education and technology.

"Medium (blogging platform) enabled me to feature online resources I have been creating for years in our LibGuides. This is exciting because it solves the issue of how to make archived online resources relevant to students and teachers. "

A blog site with comprehensive coverage and teaching ideas for the use of picture book titles, mainly US in content.

This resource presents units of work on 12 popular authors whose works cover early childhood through to secondary interests. Each unit includes an author interview, supporting resources and a lesson outline with curriculum links. Authors include: J C Burke, Larissa Behrandt, Peter Fitzsimons, Jacqueline Wilson, Meg Rosoff, William Dalrymple, Andy Griffiths, Alison Lester, Anita Heiss, John Boyne, Tara June and Winch Ros Gittens

A website for teachers filled with ideas for literacy teaching using visual resources such as film, animation, photographs and picture books.

" the "Reading Room" a huge list of articles and activities designed to help you teach reading. We start with research-based concepts, ready-to-use tools, and extensions for learning provided by our own "Reading Coach." After that, we have all sorts of useful tools including scripts for reading aloud in the classroom along with other resources. "