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Cooperative learning is an instructional strategy that simultaneously addresses academic and social skill learning by students. It is a well-researched instructional strategy and has been reported to be highly successful in the classroom. For a more in depth explanation of this strategy, follow this link to the self-guided tutorial.

Great site for special education teachers.

This is a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials. This is a great site for everyone to utilize. I have used this website with all four of my boys, and they love it.

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 sites has materials for Professional Development. The free resources include VoD's to enhance the instruction in all disciplines: Arts, Foreign Language, Literature/Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science. Materials also available for purchase.

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.

Use this link to search by grade level, subject and theme for classroom activities on a variety of topics. Resource lists with many sites are listed under every topic. There is a little something for everyone here from a wide collection of instructional units.

This website is based on Ohio State Standards but offers great resources in Math, Science, English/Language Arts, and Social Studies. It gives options of instructional, content, professional and assessment resources.

In this site you can access model curriculum supporting the state standards. You can select quarterly units or individual topics. These models provide sample that offer description, time frame, sample ideas, sample questions, vocabulary, resources. Individual models show the standards that will be mastered, gives instructional strategies, samples of instructional resources/materials that can be used, and even lists some common misconceptions related to the lesson. Unfortunately, it only provides for Language Arts and Mathematics but it could be a great base for creating your own plans in other subjects.

This site provieds a WebQuest that can be completed by your class. It includes videos and printouts for students. Instructions are included on each page.

A compilation of Web 2.0 tools broken down by category and cross-linked and referenced.

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.

Lesson plan for expanding students' use of different verbs. Includes instructional plan to be covered in four sessions, print outs, and ideas for individual and group practice. Meets several national standards for the teaching of Language Arts. Promotes use of technology, dictionaries, and thesauri.

Shared US History curriculum's from Kentucky High Schools.

Adaptive learning technology and software programs for math Thousands of lessons available This software is not free but there are free samples of the software and teachers can buy the software sets for $20 per child or the school system can pay to have unlimited software for the year.

This website is a map for the kindergarten curriculum.