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The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

Effective professional development is an essential and indispensable process, without which schools and programs cannot hope to achieve their desired goals for student achievement. SERC's programs and initiatives are built on the belief that the continued growth and ongoing development of professionals and other personnel are both key to the effectiveness of the educational system and critical to retaining the best people in the profession (Fullan & Stiegelbauer, 1991).

This link will take you to an abstract, but on the upper right there is a link to the full text. This pdf file talks about strategies for professional development that are REALLY effective, and not just a waste of time.

This is a very easy to use and effective Daily lesson plan. It has adequate spaces for each subject and is broken down so that you can sufficiently plan out your day. Also, this website is an excellent place to find tons and tons of unique and custom made lesson plans by teachers across the country.

Tammy Worcester Tang, a former classroom teacher, specializes in finding unique and creative, but most of all, effective ways to use technology in the classroom. Her website offers some fabulous free resources and ideas that can excite teachers and engage learners!

This article goes in depth about that growing use of technology in Education, and both the positive and negative effects that it is having.

This website provides many differnt ways that professional development can be accomplished, and gives some statistics of what common strategies are used for professional development by teachers. It also gives some tips for how to improve your professional development.

Meeting the demands of the Common Core means teaching teachers new approaches to instruction; in other words, reform demands effective professional development.

TED Talk about how posing can actually effect your hormones that can cause drastic changes in the way you live and act.

Teachers are not the only ones who need professional development. Education is a team effort that cannot be relegated solely to teachers.

Done right, professional development is indispensible.

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