Another good resource for supplemental material. Hundereds of topics from The Inquisition to Praire Dogs. Provides links to webistes that can be used as interactive lessons as well as links where educator's can find information and printable activities.
This website serves as your "go to" website in the inception stages of intergrating technology in the classroom or when you inquire about the educational resources available on a specific topic. The amount of resouces on this website is vast, for all core subject areas. What I liked most about this site is: you are able to search for your needs by subject, person, holiday, or topic. This website in worth bookmarking in your classroom.
The space for educators to share free K-12 learning materials, including activities, worksheets and lesson plans. Discover how you can upload or download resources on a number of subjects for students at any grade.
This site is a part of the Florida Department of Education's website, however, it is a separate part that is just for teachers. It provides information on different conferences or workshops that educators can attend, or great field trip ideas that are free for classes.
A free community for sharing instructional videos and content for teachers and students. We are an education focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners.
Professional development is important - we should try to continually learn and grow as teachers - so good thing the FL Dept of Education website has a page listing some upcoming conferences and workshops (http://www.fldoe.org/JustForTeachers/conferences.asp). This, however, is a FREE webinar called "Preparing Teachers to Implement the Common Core State Standards." It is next Tuesday, Jan 29 2013, from 1:00-2:00 PM. I'm not sure if it will be archived for later viewing.
A free grade book with sitting chart for teachers. I know must of us have our own system at school but this could be a back up or resource for posting when the system is down, or just for your records
An open repository of free and fee-based digital content that is searchable, educationally relevant and aligned to Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.
Found on the FLDOE site - great tool for finding virtual curriculum items related to Sunshine Standards. Not everything on the site is free, but some are. Pulled from the left link menu on the FLDOE main website.
FloridaVCM provides many digital curriculum resources to teachers, registration seems to be required. Many digital learning experiences can be purchased by teachers, and some resources seem to be free (once you register).
An open repository of free and fee-based digital content that is searchable, educationally relevant and aligned to Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.
Free math worksheets, free math games, grammar quizzes and free phonics worksheets and games. Worksheets and games are organized by grades and topics. These printable math and phonics worksheets are auto generated.
- BBC Podcast shows how technology is improving individualized learning and improving student achievement - kids move ahead at their own pace versus no technology schools that believe in free play and creativity
- Silicon Valley pays 30% more for their teachers
- Salman Khan & Nolan Bushnell
- flipping the classroom
- technology personalizes education and teachers become mentors
- Florida virtual school - Noah Schnacky
- Silicon Valley parents send their children to no technology schools - free play is a priority
This has been in Beta for a while but they have a pretty good free version available. This allows for online question response and instant feedback like a set of classroom clickers some of us use. It works well and is free so check it out.
Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class' current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.
Arcademic Skill Builders provides free research-based and standards-aligned multiplayer educational games. Our mission is to create the highest quality educational games possible in order to assist teachers and motivate students in the classroom, at home, and on the go
I love everything about Discovery Education, not to mention their streaming library which offers video clips of pretty much anything educational you can think of from lessons on "What do Scientists do?" to Chinese Dragon Dancers. I use this site all the time in my classroom, highly recommend!
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The GTA is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies.