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Learn about the teacher and student editions of your textbook. Watch short video clips of commentaries, teaching strategies, and best teaching practices-correlated to your textbooks. See step-by-step instructions for using your McGraw-Hill technology programs. Participate with your collegues in these typical online learning events.

"Digital Learning Day: Celebrating Innovative Teaching Strategies"

Cooperative Learning strategies, games, and software

View Study Skills View Organizers Cooperative Learning Instruction Strategies For a teacher who is trying to teach through cooperative learning from the teacher's resources or lesson plans, he or she might face problems of discipline or noisy lessons as after all it's just a class full of students.

This website was great because it gave ideas for teachers to teach with using Webquests for Pearl Harbor. 

This is a teachers channel. It has vidio clips on different teachers, and what that teacher is teaching.

This website offers educational games, updated information for teachers, and ideas that educators can use in their classroom.

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 is a website that offers webinars. There is also a list of training, and Online Teaching Modules.

This website offers online workshops for teachers that include topics such as Parent/Teacher relationships, teaching tips, discipline plans and suggestions. There is a lot of information on this website that is very interesting.

Great website offering information on how to teach social studies using technology. I will be taking this information into my lesson plans!

This is an Interactive website for Reading and Language Arts. This site is more focused on the 3rd and 4th graders. It has lots of practice for students to do, but it also has lots of things for parents and teachers to get extra help on teaching their students.

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.

Use these strategies to improve your students' cooperative learning skills. Included are articles to teach you about each concept and lesson plans with which you can implement the strategies. These are great professional development resources and are an excellent resource to ensure that you are improving your professional skill set.

Several different articles about cooperative learning strategies.

This website offeres a expansive list of Cooperative Learning activities for the students to do. These can intergrated into lesson plans or used as a introduction activity.

Cooperative Learning Structures Explanation Jigsaw Groups with five students are set up. Each group member is assigned some unique material to learn and then to teach to his group members. To help in the learning students across the class working on the same sub-section get together to decide what is important and how to teach it.

This website contains many WebQuests for all subjects at the elementary level. It also includes links to websites on how to create WebQuests. This site has links to WebQuest sites suggested by Innovative Teaching Newsletter.

A website on how to adapt and enhance webquests for the individual classroom. Useful to know because teaching is not always about reinventing an idea, but rather adapting it for a specific situation.

A site describing why webquests are useful in the classroom. Along with webquests, it also includes information on cooperative learning, technology in the classroom, and authentic assessments to teach.

This article has several ideas for small group activities that build skills and promote teamwork. It focuses on building learning strategies with diverse learners. I really like this website and will be using it it the future for teaching Reading and helping those that are struggling with this subject. ABCs of Teaching Reading classroom strategies helping struggling readers, reading topics from a-z Cooperative Learning has been proven to be effective for all types of students, including academically gifted, mainstream students and English language learners (ELLs) because it promotes learning and fosters respect and friendships among diverse groups of students. In fact, the more diversity in a team, the higher the benefits for each student. Peers learn to depend on each other in a positive way for a variety of learning tasks. Students typically work in teams of four. This way, they can break into pairs for some activities, and then get back together in teams very quickly for others. It is important, however, to establish classroom norms and protocols that guide students to: Contribute Stay on task Help each other Encourage each other Share Solve problems Give and accept feedback from peers

Here you can find out the standards that need to be taught in the classroom, at specific grade level.

The Indiana standards for teaching social studies for the sixth grade level.

This site has a video on the home page about technology and education. The top of the page offers options. Choose the teacher's option. This page offers resources for teachers on ways to incorporate teaching technology in the classroom.

This site offers lesson plans, tips, themes, printables, and a lot more. A great site if you are needing to teach on a certain topic, and need an idea on what to do.