Sometimes it is hard for kids with special needs to use their fingers. Some of these apps discussed on this site help students use their fingers by tracing letters or spelling their name on a tablet. This site offers apps for math, reading, matching, spelling, memory, and more. Special education kids might need a little bit more stimulation during their learning instead of pencil and paper. Touch tablets allow them to stay interested by learning hands-on and seeing rewards visually.

Rid Rex is a SAFE search engine for kids! Teachers can feel at ease while his or her students research on KidRex.org for projects.

I LOVE this site!!! I believe in standing up and moving between subjects. Kids' brains need breaks to become stimulated and to get oxygen every once in a while. Brain breaks also give students something fun to look forward to after hard work. This site allows teachers to create a playlist of fun brain breaks. These are great to reduce antsy behaviors and to keep kids with special needs in line.

I love this site for an online animal research project! My favorite projects during my K-12 days were animal research projects. This site would be perfect for K-5 kiddos to explore many different animals and discover which one they want to create a research project on.

Wonderful educational game site for learning! Offers a variety of math and reading fun to keep students interested in learning. Mostly enjoyed by the K-5 grades.

This website offers ideas of what to practice during Math, Language Arts, and Listening and Communication. Great ideas for a teacher to teach his or her students in kindergarten and what they should know before kindergarten.

This video is visually stimulating for students with Austism. Other students will find this video educational as well. The variety in the video keeps kids interested. The video shares social stories, like how to wash your hands. The video also introduces letters and letter sounds. This video would be a good brain break video.

This template can simply be turned into from a daily template to a weekly template. I love the cutesiness of it for an elementary school teacher. It is organized with the spelling words of the week and times that each subject begins and ends.

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Very simple daily lesson plan template. This template can be typed or hand written daily and printed off. Key activities and feedback can simply be checked off.

Pinterest is full of so many collaborative ideas. This site lets you investigate so many different lesson plan templates and ideas for day, week, or unit.

When writing lesson plans, sometimes using a template can help you focus. See our collection of lesson and unit planning templates for you to try. This site gives teachers the resources they need to make lesson plans.

This is a cool site. Evernote allows students to log on to see the daily lesson plan. Students are not surprised by what is going to happen in class that day.

10 Ideas For Using Technology To Teach Writing

A fun visual on how teachers are today.

There is a lot of firsthand knowledge being shared right now. From blogging principals to teachers to education enthusiasts, there are hundreds of blogs that you should probably check out. There are some truly miraculous reasons that you should consider blogging, by the way.

Good ideas to speed up the professional development process by stopping things that take time

Great source for professional development during the summer while school is out.

Traditional teacher professional development depends on external training handed down to teachers after having identified their weaknesses as a professional. If you're not so great at teacher writing, or if assessment is becoming a bigger focus in your school or district, you fill out a growth plan of some sort, attend your training, get your certificates, and repeat until you've got your hours or your school has run out of money to send you to more training.

Fun site for finding new ways to spice up professional development.