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Articulating the pedagogical content knowledge of accomplished geography teachers

This was the first resource I came across after Googling the title I've written above. I took the advice in the learning path in selecting my subject for my unit plan (to pick a weaker teaching area in order to strengthen it) and this resource has helped me immeasurably! It provides focus questions, PDF and video samples, as well as providing additional links surrounding developing geographical thinking and communication skills and understanding geography teaching in terms of pedagogical practices. All in all, a good find!

I found this webpage very helpful in showing teachers how to have a strong PCK when teaching Geography.

PCK and geography

Found this and thought it was an amazing list. Has helped a lot with prac. What are the best apps for teachers? We asked TED-Ed Innovative Educators and the TED-Ed community. Below, 25 awesome apps recommended for teachers, by teachers. TED-Ed More than 250,000 teachers use TED education tools to spark student curiosity and explore presentation literacy skills. "TED-Ed is an outstanding resource in my classroom," says TED-Ed Innovative Educator Jennifer Hesseltine.

This is a great resource, thanks for sharing. I love using YouTube in the classroom as I feel students relate well to visual prompts.

This is aimed at kids with dyslexia but I don't think it would matter either way. There are some creative and fun ways to learn sight words.

This is an awesome and fun way for children to learn sight words. It's always great when we can make school fun!

Brilliant! I was just doing an observation in prep yesterday, will be sure to pass this on!

Hi All, I found this article to be very pertinent to this weeks content in EDC3100. I hope some of you can benefit as well: ABSTRACT (Copied from Sciencedirect) Technology integration in K-12 classrooms is usually overly teacher-centered and has insufficient impact on students' learning, especially in enhancing students' higher-order cognitive skills. The purpose of this project is to facilitate science teachers' use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as cognitive tools to shift their practices from traditional teacher-centered methods to constructivist, student-centered ones. This paper describes the outcomes and lessons learned from an application of design-based research (DBR) in the implementation and refinement of a teacher professional development (PD) program that is a key component of the overall project. This DBR study involved 25 middle-school science teachers from 24 schools whose implementation of cognitive tools with their students in science classrooms and virtually through a social networking site were observed over four years. A mixed-methodology was utilized to examine the impact of the cognitive tools intervention on teachers' classroom practices and students' development of new literacy skills. Identifying reusable design principles related to technology integration was another focus of the DBR study. The results revealed teachers' positive changes in their classroom practices by gradually allowing students to take control over the use of technology, and positive impact on students' ICT skills and science learning. Design principles for future professional development programs aimed at preparing teachers to adopt a cognitive tools approach are described.

Prezi providing examples of what happens with scaffolding and the incorporation of ICT

Prezi providing examples of what happens with scaffolding and the incorporation of ICT

Lesson Plan Videos on Mathematics

do this activity with students

Found this handy little resource. Has anyone else used it in the classroom or seen it used? 

E-learning pedagogy in US public high schools

So I have chosen Yr 9 History for my UoW, History is not something I have had a lot to do with other than the required discipline subjects for my SoSE Minor, so I thought I would test myself. It seems I am quite competent at finding curriculum and syllabus information and being able to...

Another useful site with tips that could be applied to prac as well as relief teaching.

A really good phonics based program to teach reading, writing and spelling to 3-8 year olds

I think this resource would be valuable for any grade between 1-4, learning place values. I like that it isn't overly complicated, and it is simplified enough for students to be able to work it themselves. There may be some issues with some of the students remembering the place values when the different columns are not marked properly.

This will be a great resource for early childhood teachers to use. It is a very bright, colourful visual display of the days of the week that the children are expected to learn. Great opportunity to collaborate as a whole class.