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ALIMA students: Teaching learning as a skill- not a consequence

Teacher videos, resources and lesson plans. Discover great ideas and strategies to use as a teacher with this collection of videos covering Math, Science, English, History and more.

This is the Teaching Channel's website filled with educator resources.  I have found several Science lab ideas from this site.  Many resources are standards based and grounded in STEM research, but there are resources for all subject areas.  There are also videos available that show lessons in practice.  

A great read about Technology Integration from the perspective of a K-12 District Technology Integrator. Effective quote: "Technology is Not pedagogy."

Lesson plans and classroom materials designed to teach students from all grades about cyber safety, cyber security, and cyber ethics.

Slideshow professional development site for sharing teaching strategies.

The website for my middle school's media center has a few excellent links.  We have links to eLibrary access, World Book Online, The Library of Congress, Teaching Books for Students, EBSCOhost, ThomsonGale database, Tumblebooks, the Lexile Framework for Reading, the ERIC online library, and the Florida Information Resource Network.

The Florida Humanities Council "Teaching Florida" website contains lesson plans and resources tied to Florida History and Humanities standards.  They also provide summer workshops for teachers to expand their knowledge about Florida humanities.

This website is a great internet safety resource for students, parents and educators.  There are videos and lesson ideas available.  There is also information about cyberbullying.  This website is a great classroom tool because it offers engaging activities for students, including virtual games, to teach them about internet safety.

I shared this via Twitter, in case you missed it. 100 of the top teacher blog/sites. I learned about this link via the FETC conference.

Using this to teach characterization this week.

Prepare students to succeed in a global society by teaching them a new language. Rosetta Stone provides a path students and educators can follow with confidence.

Teachers: Do you ever feel like you can't possibly take a day off of teaching? Those days are over! Instantly print these lesson sets out and your students are set from the entire day.

Article about teaching digital citizenship.

This research article provides an overview of how transformative learning experiences can be created through instructional design.  The aim is to use instruction to make learning more experiential, personally relevant and transformative to students.  The authors explain a framework for providing transformative learning experiences, including several indicators that fall into the categories of developing personal meaning, competence with the subject and relationships.  The authors also present guidelines for designing these experiences, including applying design fundamentals, crafting the learning experience and teaching and facilitating to inspire learning. A quick, but worth while read! Wilson, B. G., & Parrish, P. (2011). Transformative learning experience: Aim higher, gain more. Educational Technology, 51 (2), 10-15.

A series of user-friendly techniques, suggestions, tips, and advice which is focused on teaching and learning to make technology useful in the classroom.

An interactive teaching math approach. Utilizes different modes of teaching.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

Great teaching strategies and articles related to technology in schools.