Gives plenty of resources for TESOL teachers including lesson plans, activities, assessments, teaching tips, etc. You can also contribute your own resources for other teachers. Almost like social media for teachers!
This blog is centered around educational technology and using it effectively in the classroom. It contains lesson plan ideas, resources, teaching tips, and more.
every teacher already has the tools to differentiate in powerful ways for all learners
The core of differentiation is a relationship between teachers and students. The teacher's responsibility is connecting content, process, and product. Students respond to learning based on readiness, interests, and learning profile.
Content is comprised of the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students need to learn based on the curriculum.
If we provide a variety of ways to explore the content outcomes, learners find different ways to connect.
Process is how students make sense of the content. They need time to reflect and digest the learning activities before moving on to the next segment of a lesson.
Processing helps students assess what they do and don't understand.
Reflection is a powerful skill that is developed during processing experiences
Product differentiation is probably the most common form of differentiation.
Teachers give choices where students pick from formats.
Students propose their own designs.
The key to product options is having clear academic criteria that students understand.
When considering your students' needs, reach even higher in your practice -- that extra stretch is inside us all -- and students will benefit.
This article describes the teacher's role for effective planning of differentiated instruction. I hope that I can use the three points in this article (differentiating content, process, and product) in order to create the best learning experiences for my students.
Catlin Tucker is an experienced teacher that documents her journey with blended learning. She not only puts on lesson plans, ideas, and resources, but she also makes tutorials for most of the websites/apps.
This is a very cool website. This website has a great deal of information on it and Catlin is very inspirational. I think this resource would be good for teachers to glim inspiration form and for Catlin's students to access information about her courses. For a teacher to have a website is a very new thing and I am sure that many teachers do but have never explored one before; good find!