This website has a variety of information, resources, and a professional development site for teaching older students (grades 3 and up) from resources from the Library of Congress.
Find teaching resources and program information such as episode descriptions and educational learning goals for PBS KIDS shows. A national PBS survey of pre-K-12 teachers sheds light on the rising role of technology in America's classrooms, as well as barriers teachers face to accessing the "right" digital resources.
There are a lot of links in this website about continuing education for teachers along with Lesson Plans, TV program and web content and Digital Service. I like PBS because it always has a lot of fun ideas to make teaching fun for the student.
This site is very cool. You can pick an age group and then pick one of the many different topics they have and find a web quest that goes along with the topic!
This site offers WebQuests for teachers and students. It starts with "A presentation for teachers on why to use WebQuests." Nellie, the site creator, has categories of different age groups, ESL students, and adults. She offers webquests for: Classroom Management for Technology WebQuest for Preservice Teachers, Put your school on the web, Electronic Portfolios, Building a Website, and much more.
This page provides a variety of links to organizations, teacher-to-teacher initiatives, professional development toolkits, regional education labs, and more.
Conner Prairie provides a historical look of professional development for teachers in Indiana dating back to the 1860's. Links to teacher resources and materials, field trip activities, and lesson plans.
Site that offers articles written by teachers for teachers. Includes latest information about technology in the classroom. This website is in a news/blog form that I browsed around and found some great information!
Educational Technology Guy is a great blog written by a physics teacher. His blog relies on the fact that teachers want new ideas about technology and how to use it. Davids blog has great resources that connect teacher to websites that will help them grow in their technology skills.
Dunes Educator Institutes
This institute provides professional trainings for teachers all year and can provide college credits for those seeking to continue their education. Activities take place within the lakeshore environment. Both Indiana and Illinois teachers can receive college credits through these classes.
Dunes Educator Institutes
This institute provides professional trainings for teachers all year and can provide college credits for those seeking to continue their education. Activities take place within the lakeshore environment. Both Indiana and Illinois teachers can receive college credits through these classes.
This web-site is dedicated to helping students, teachers, parent-teacher, and shool systems with teaching spelling and vocabulary. This is a great site for students to learn their spelling and vocabualry words in a fun way.
Lakeshore learning is a popular resource that teachers use to supply their classrooms with different items such as literacy center and math ideas. This popular company now has teacher workshops that are available in a number of different states.
The National Science Foundation website detailing different sources of information for future STEM teachers. The site includes awards, scholarships, and information for teachers who want to use technology and science in their classroom.
This website is great! It has everything you might need from lesson plans to teacher resources. If you give them your email, you can join the teacher newsletter.
Teachers are lifelong learners. In fact, ongoing education is a requirement for teachers of every public school level, from kindergarten through 12th grade. Known as professional development, this education -- usually in the form of workshops, seminars and training courses -- helps teachers stay up to date with new trends and learn fresh strategies, techniques and methods for classroom challenges.
This is the Library of Congress's site. I find this to appropriate because it is from the government and it gives your mulitple choices on how to grow. You just decide on what exactly you want to do and search for it on the page.
The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program provides primary source-based staff development to teachers across the country.
I included the site because it is both a government ran website and allows teachers the opportunity to expand what they know with their own decisions.
I thought this website went into a good amount of detail about cooperative learning techniques for teachers. I found that it was very helpful for a teacher trying to stay on task and organized.
I felt this was a good website to share.
This site offers times and locations for different conferences to help educators better themselves. Also has direct link to some journals associated with technology, and books for the kids as well. Also include a Teacher Resources tab with PDF files of problems with teaching strategies as well as group managment tips.