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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.  

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.

The Office of Educational Technology is involved in a variety of projects and initiatives that leverage technology to improve teaching and learning and create opportunities for innovation.

Great link to research, report, and grants through the Office of Educational Technology

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.

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.

Preparing Current and Future Teachers to Teach with Technology: An Examination of School-University Collaborations by Dr. Richard Hartshorne, Kara Dawson, and Richard Ferdig

Our very own Dr. Hartshorne addresses the gap technology integration training gap between universities and school districts. He makes some great suggestions to ensure that schools and universities are on collaborating when setting classroom technology standards.

A great read about technology integration in the classroom and using technology in general.

This page contains presidential sites and apps to gather facts, biographies, speeches, photos, audio & video files, election results, color pages, interactive games and much more

A look at rubrics that work for all subject and grade levels. Has a variety of rubrics not only for course work, but for behavior, class participation, listening, team work, etc.

This website offers a wealth of scholarly papers addressing theories and  issues in educational technology.

The potential of digital storytelling realized. I will be setting my DVR for this film on PBS.

Technology in the classroom: This has some great articles on technology and education!

This Website helps to learn and practice basic math functions including algebra, problem resolution skills, as well as methods of teaching students who feel frustrated with math. I think that this site provides enough information to learn and develop the skills of students in mathematics. Students can learn through private lessons individual or through a collective use of videos and with a forum for discussion with the experts.

A new survey of early childhood educators shows they think technology can play a positive role in children's learning. But they need support in order to make use of new tools in their classrooms. We are on the cusp of tremendous changes in early childhood education as technology introduces new opportunities for learning and teaching.

With the inception of Common Core standards and The No Child Left Behind Act, all educators require teaching literacy across the curriculum. Getting kids to write, especially the weaker writers, can be a challenge in itself but getting kids to write about math can be even more challenging - unless you use blogging as your literacy tactic.

This is a link to the abstract of an article I found through EBSCO by UCF Associate Professor Dr. Gina Gresham. The study she conducted is about the math anxiety levels of pre-service teachers before and after taking a specialized course on how to teach the subject using tools like manipulatives.

Hi Hope! I actually came across the same article. I find articles about math anxiety really interesting.