left lasting significant contributions in fields such as medicine, art, mathematics, and engineering
he’s a perfect subject for cross-curricular studies. While he’s widely studied in art classes, his ideas in engineering, mathematics, and medicine in particular lend themselves to fertile exploration in a variety of subject areas.
The eMINTS National Center is a non-profit, independent business unit of the University of Missouri. eMINTS offers professional development programs created by educators for educators. Leading experts have collaborated to produce programs that
* inspire educators to use instructional strategies powered by technology
* engage students in the excitement of learning
* enrich teaching to dramatically improve student performance
eMINTS changes how teachers teach and students learn. Its instructional model provides a research-based approach to organizing instruction and can be implemented in any subject area at any level.
The "Find a Book" Web site is a quick and easy way to search the Lexile Book Database for titles at your reading (Lexile) level. Whether you're reading for school or for pleasure, you can use this site to build a custom reading list on the subjects that interest you the most.
Curriculumbits.com offer free online access to a growing range of interactive multimedia e-learning teaching resources. The online teaching resource library contains educational games, quizzes, animations and videos in a variety of subjects at key stage 3 and 4 of the UK National Curriculum.
What are the characteristics we would expect to see in a successful 21st century educator? Well, we know they are student-centric, holistic, and they’re teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area. We know, too, that they must be 21st century learners as well. But highly effective teachers in today’s classrooms are more than this – much more.
help classroom teachers integrate technology into their curriculum by identifying and providing interactive Internet resources addressing specific objectives.