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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum.

"Creative resources for teaching drama" Fantastic page with games, lessons, and links to plays for the drama classroom

Vectorworks is another technical design program that is free for students. Many colleges use Vectorworks rather than Autocad.

"AutoCAD for Education Design and shape the world around you with the powerful, connected design tools in AutoCAD software." This software is free for students and has a three year licence. This would be a great tool for theatre students to download and use to create set and prop designs.

ABCmouse.com helps kids learn to read through phonics, and teaches lessons in math, social studies, art, music, and much more. For kids age 2 to Kindergarten.

Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids, aligned with state standards

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For teachers looking to keep students learning even outside of the classroom, creating a blog platform for each classroom would be key. Edublogs can be used for e-portfolios and class sites. By uploading videos, pod-casts and notes, my language art students could have an interactive classroom to complete novel study discussions and assignments. In the past, I have used Edmodo and Edublogs is a similar platform. I would recommend for teachers.

I thought I could read my students' body language. I was wrong. As an experiment, I used Socrative when I taught binary numbers. What I learned forever changed my views on being a better teacher. Formative assessment is done as students are learning. Summative assessment is at the end (like a test). The importance of formative assessment. 5 tools for formatively assessing your students.

Portable Word Wall and other Word Wall ideas to support struggling readers. I have used Word Walls in the past, but I have not used them for individual students. This form of differentiation can be taken with the student to a reading specialist, brought home, or used in the classroom to support instruction.

SPR15 strategy phonics K-3 resource

In this blog post, Carrie Toth describes how she uses a 'musical chairs' strategy to help students collaboratively write a story. This requires them to first read and then build upon previous contributions. Carrie Toth describes how she uses this with her language learning students but it can be used in any content area to help develop student writing and reading skills. An additional benefit is that students get to move around and research shows the importance of physical activity and learning.

This page provides a set of descriptions that detail the characteristics of quality student work regardless of content area. Teachers could use this in the PLCs as a gauge to evaluate student work. For students in middle school, high school and college, teachers could share these with students to help them achieve high quality work.

Author Rebecca Alber shares six scaffolding strategies designed to provide successful learning experiences for our students. Teachers can use these to support our diverse learners.

(Week 7: Michele, Ericka and Spencer) This article is accessible through the link --> https://www.edutopia.org/blog/scaffolding-lessons-six-strategies-rebecca-alber. This article focuses on a learning technique called scaffolding. Used as a precursor to differentiated instruction (DI), scaffolding involves chunking the lesson into parts so a higher level of emphasis can be placed on information the teacher desires the students to learn. In the article, the author, Rebecca Alber, provides the reader with 6 strategies to use in their lessons that can incorporate the learning tool scaffolding. To determine the scaffolding strategy, the author emphasizes the use of the zone of proximal development (ZPD). "The ZPD is the distance between what children can do by themselves and the next learning that they can be helped to achieve with competent assistance." Some scaffolding strategies include pre-teaching vocabulary, fishbowl and use of visual aids. Teachers can use scaffolding in class to help encourage higher level thinking which allow students to better understand the information and skills learned in class. Additionally, teachers who do not have the resources to DI (space, time, additional teacher support) can use scaffolding strategies to aid in meeting the educational needs of all their students. Although one strategy does not work, the author emphasizes the importance of trying other. Reference: Alber, R. (2011). 6 scaffolding strategies to use with your students. Retrieved on October 23, 2018 from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/scaffolding-lessons-six-strategies-rebecca-alber EDTC615 Fall2018

In this video Rick Wormeli describes the difference between formative and summative assessment and how and when they are used for student learning. This could be a great PLC discussion starter prior to work on developing assessments for a data action plan.

This article describes research that indicates better recall of content when taking notes by hand versus taking notes with an electronic device. This can be shared with students to encourage them to take notes by hand.

These three videos from Expeditionary Learning show how we can model for students how they can critique their own and each other's work and provide descriptive feedback. Teachers can apply these strategies with their own students. Teachers can also work together with their PLC to implement these strategies with their students.