This site is a lot of fun and with every correct answer, you're helping feed the hungry around the world. This link will take you to Free Rice for those practicing Spanish, however, you may go to the Free Rice homepage and select a different course of study.
Zachary Jones is an innovative, incredibly gifted and generous Spanish educator. On his main site (http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/) you can access tons of free ideas for your language classroom. This URL I've shared will allow you to sign up for a Spanish language word per day in the form of a photo with a context. It's awesome ~
Nice site for PreK- 8th graders. It links to games and resources on other sites. Plenty of options and you can probably find something on what you are teaching. It has cute graphics, but looks a little old. Still easy to use.
This is a pretty good site for ideas for K-6 class activities. It has an active message board area and loads of printouts and exercises. It was pretty easy to navigate. The only downside for me is that not too many of the options can be used in an ESL classroom other than some of the reading and writing choices. I'm not sure how helpful it would be for science or math teachers, but it could be worth a look for any of you who are K-6 teachers.
Good site for grammar explanation and grammar exercises. It has videos, exercises, handouts, presentations, and more about different grammar points that a teacher could use or a teacher could direct a student to for more practice. It offers short, but descriptive explanations of different English grammar points with tons of examples about each topic.
This website has a variety of free lessons from different universities. Some of the universities are Yale, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and MIT. There are different categories that students and teachers can browse through. On the main page there is a tutoring link that has different videos to teach the quadratic formula and factoring. This is a great source for teachers and students.
This website is based in New Zealand. This website has a lot of resources for teachers. Teachers can order a variety of books and activities to utilize in the classroom. It also has a list of links for teachers to use. The website also has a variety of articles on new teaching practices and what is new in the teaching world for teachers to read.
I like the way that this site is laid out. And I really enjoyed the resources available for teachers and students. One aspect that I liked is the worksheet generator. I am always looking for easy ways to create fun worksheets based on musicians and music terms.
The American Association of Teachers of German is a site dedicated to providing professional assistance, resources, and information. As the title suggests, most of the material is specifically designed to help German teachers. Of particular usefulness is the site's links to hundreds of other sites which can also be highly effective in instruction.
This is a site developed by the University of Texas which provides a myriad of different practices used in effective second language instruction. Topics range from vocabulary, grammar, culture to skills such as speaking, writing, listening and reading. The primary benefit of the site is that it provides an overview of what successful language teaching looks like.
The U.S. Department of Education features content related to funding, policy, research, certification, job opportunities and news. Very useful for an educator, the site offers research on how to organize instruction, what works in the classroom, and improving teacher quality as well as providing resources on lessons plans. This site would also be particularly important to teachers needing to correlate their lesson plans to national standards.
The US Dept of Education created an organization to provide states with research based information, best practices and the technical assistance they need to gap between education research and education practices. The website is useful if you want to read about different studies in all areas of education.
(Unfortunately Geogebra is a download, but it is a quick simple download that doesn't take long, and it also doesn't take much space). I love Geogebra because it is the best interactive geometry application that can be used to help students not only learn the concepts of geometry but also help them to visualize them in action.
This website is amazing (at least for math teachers). It has different lessons for various mathematical concepts. I believe many teachers could find this useful for helping find different ideas to help students learn, but also provide more challenging activities for students that are excelling.
Teacher Path Finder is a very useful website that has a lot of resources and links to websites with many resources for teachers. I also liked how it had a section for the community, parents and there were even some resources for students (school to work information). I love how this website has enough information to have many different resources that can be used in almost countless situations.
This site is designed to give short and easy explanations and exercises for ESL. I'm not 100% sure how to utilize this in the classroom, but it is an easy to navigate site that students could use for really short, easy English points practice.
This site is AMAZING! I am currently a "seller" on this site and I weekly pull off the "free downloads" that are offered by new sellers and seasoned sellers who want to grab buyers' attention. This is FULL of great ideas and it's a way for you to sell what you've spent COUNTLESS HOURS creating ;-)
This is a tremendously useful site! There are interactive quizzes, pronunciation exercises, basic Spanish phrases, top sayings, and common verb categories. It is a one-stop shop to get the basic Spanish mastered or reviewed.
Awesome interactive presentation on "mate", a popular Argentine drink. This Prezi links up to other similar interactive presentations on other related ideas to this one. There is so much that a teacher could do with these and as an extension have students create their own!
