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The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

A place for teachers to share resources. "The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century."

This article discusses desired characteristics and competencies in teachers of gifted students who are culturally, ethnically, or linguistically diverse. These include: culturally relevant pedagogy, equity pedagogy, a holistic teaching philosophy, a communal philosophy, respect for students' primary language, culturally congruent instructional practices, culturally sensitive assessment, student-family-teacher relationships, and teacher diversity. (Contains references.) (DB)

This has some good resources and FAQs on it for all areas of teaching

An interesting way to gain insight into your own teaching style.

Make a web quest in under 2 minutes with TeAch-nology.com's Web Quest Maker! A Web Quest is a method used to engage students in inquiry based learning.

An argument for teaching art.

a good presentation of teaching to different learning styles in higher education and using technology to do so

This was my website that I created for teaching biology at Frick. It's pretty basic, but it served it's purpose. Several of my students said it was helpful. Most of the links should still work, not sure if they all do though.

I used this site when I was teaching biology last year. There are some decent lesson ideas and downloads

Educational Objectives for using Blooms taxonomy.

A collection of research articles put together by the SMARTer Kids Foundation about the success of using the SMARTboard in classrooms. Contains articles from many different subject areas.

Harold Olejarz has a number of pertinent articles on integrating technology into the classroom, particularly for art education. This one teaches how to create a Web-based portfolio of student work.

The mission of Art Education 2.0 is to support a growing global community of art educators exploring uses of new and emerging technology in the classroom by promoting: * professional discourse * best art teaching practices * innovative uses of technology in the art classroom and studio * the production and study of visual culture * collaboration and joint creative work * curricular projects and student art exchanges * the sharing of information, ideas and experiences * other activities deemed important by its members.

Another good teaching resource site.