See real middle school teachers incorporating the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards into their lessons, while learning as much about teaching as their students do about math. The programs demonstrate how teachers guide and assess student understanding, and offer strategies for keeping students motivated and engaged at this critical age.
GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. It has received several educational software awards in Europe and the USA.
Plenty of universities, nonprofits, organizations, museums and more post videos for the cause of education both in and out of schools. The following list compiles some of the ones most worthy of attention, as they feature plenty of solid content appealing to their respective audiences and actively try to make viewers smarter.
Bullying is an overspread problem in schools today and we as teachers need to be tuned in and be able to address this head on in their classrooms. The more you know the better you can help students who are suffering. Great resource with tips for teachers and parents!
This website allows you to look up audio, videos, worksheets, and lessons based on your topic/ unit. The site will even filter by grade level and subject and will give you different lesson plans/ worksheets you can use in the class. They also have interactive games for the lesson that students can do online.
This FREE website is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Has an excellent repository of teacher resources and tools, offering content in categories like Arts & Music, Health & Physical Education, History & Social Studies, Language Arts, Math and Science. Has drawings available on materials developed by federal museums and archive collections, educational materials developed via federal agencies and programs like the National Science Foundation, as well as selected resources from sites like Scholastic Inc., the Alliance for Climate Education .
The website is sponsored by the United States and it offers many resources to integrate and supplement in your classroom. All subjects are covered on this site.
This is an interesting site that allows users to create their own stories, using different images and info from the web. A teacher could use this to create a video or story relevant to the topic being studied in the classroom. That way, the teacher would visually engage the students and know that they can relate to the characters or stories that he/she created, allowing for a more exciting and fun classroom environment.
"An award-winning source for standards-based classroom resources in science, technology and engineering, from NOVA and other public television series." A free digital library associated with PBS provides teachers with downloadable video & audio clips that are aligned with education standards. Scientific topics include earth science, geography, life science, etc.
Great instructional video for teachers and parents to understand the teenage brain. If you are planning on teaching middle and high school I strongly recommend it. If you have taken SECD 4140 you might've seen it already. For me, it was an eye opener. I was a teenager a long time ago and sometimes I feel like I don't really relate or understand certain behaviors. After watching this video I feel more compassionate towards teenagers! Check it out! Click on "View Full Program Online".
Schoology allows a teacher to create a meaningful virtual classroom, extend learning beyond the boundaries of the physical classroom, and connect with students and colleagues in ways that enhance both teaching and learning.
This is a website which provides links and resources for new and veteran middle grades teachers. The site provides links and information regarding many topics:
teachign strategies, maintaining student-teacher relationships balance, working with students from diverse cultures, newsletter, discussions, publications, etc.
I have used voice thread in two classes here at UNCC and I absolutely love it! It is yet, another tool to use in the classroom that challenges students to be creative, learn technology and share their material with others. Perfect for live forums and discussions!
This is a neat website because it is a radio station in Zurich, Switzerland. Looking and listening to the things the website has to offer would be a cool way to allow kids to explore the culture and very unique accent of the swiss people. It's also good language and understanding practice of course.
This website allows the user to create their own comics. I think it would be really fun and definitely different to incorporate this tool into the classroom, perhaps by creating a comic in German and having students discuss it, or I can ask them questions about it. Or, they can create their own comic to show what they have learned. It's fun, creative and different.
A teacher's guide to using political cartoons in the classroom at all grade levels. This web site contains an excellent collection of polital cartoons organized by artists' names and by state. This is a great tool for teaching current events and can also be included in the Language Arts, Journalism, and Art curriculum.
NCTM is a website that is very helpful to teachers to meet others and constantly learn new ways of teaching. This is a resource that takes care of the big picture of education.
Council in which math teachers and students planning to teach math can join. This is the national council but there is a local one and that is the North Carolina Council of Math Teachers.
This website helps teachers improve their teaching through media and telecommunication. It has ideas for teaching across the subject areas, but I really love the Language part. My teacher from FLED4200 showed us a video made by this teacher who was teaching German 1 and it was amazing! Anyway, check it out!
What do you guys think? Should teachers sell their hard working lessons in order to furnish classrooms with books and whatnot and at the same time make a quick buck? Very controversial!
What a great website! I spent a good hour just looking at all the things on here. They have tips for us "new" teachers, ideas for lesson plans split up by subject and grade, articles from other teachers. if you have a bit of time check it out! it was really helpful to me