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Researchers have made a lot of progress in determining how to teach reading more effectively, but it really comes down to the effectiveness of each individual teacher. Teachers make the difference.

What is Pedagogy? Pedagogy is the art (and science) of teaching. Effective teachers use an array of teaching strategies because there is no single, universal approach that suits all situations. Different strategies used in different combinations with different groupings of students will improve learning outcomes.

This site list 150 teaching methods and includes a pdf document of the teaching method and some information about them.

Great article on technology integration.

This is How to Use TPACK Model to Integrate Technology into Teaching ~ Educational Technology and Mobile

To begin the peer circle, one student volunteers to share a reaction to McBride's memoir. This student then calls on another student (whose hand is raised) to contribute a related reaction. The circle continues this way, each student calling on another student to share reactions, quotations, or questions they have prepared, until everyone has participated at least once. Together they consider student-created questions by looking closely at passages in the text and talking to each other.

A small group of students (as many as half the class) arrange themselves in a circle in the center of a room. This small group will conduct a discussion together while the rest of the students watch, take notes, and later pose questions and give comments about what they observed.

Thinkfinity is the Verizon Foundation's free online professional learning community, providing access to over 60,000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for K-12 - aligned to state standards and the common core. Here, educators connect and collaborate through themed groups, blogs and discussions, sharing resources and best practices that support 21st century teaching and learning.

Social studies educators teach students the content knowledge, intellectual skills, and civic values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy. The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators.

This video offers an insist on Language Arts and technology. It features resources for pedagogy and other teaching aids.

"How to Teaching Reading and language Arts" provides tools and techniques. Excellent recommendations on literature!

This article shares how to use digital tools to teach Language Arts.

Blog about brain-based teaching, technology integration, and classroom management

NCSS has selected a collection of classroom activities, teaching ideas, and articles from Social Education, Middle Level Learning, and Social Studies and the Young Learner. Browse the collection, or search by historical period and grade level using the search function below. (Collections on other disciplines are under development.)

NCSS has selected a collection of classroom activities, teaching ideas, and articles from Social Education, Middle Level Learning, and Social Studies and the Young Learner. Browse the collection, or search by historical period and grade level using the search function below. (Collections on other disciplines are under development.)

This resources shows you how to use SAMR to teach above the lines.

Concrete-Representational-Abstract Sequence of Instruction Continuous Monitoring/Charting of Student Performance Dynamic Assessment for Mathematics Explicit Teacher Modeling Instructional Games Planned Discovery Activities Self-Correcting Materials Scaffolding Instruction Structured Cooperative Learning Groups Structured Language Experiences Structured Peer Tutoring Teach Concepts/Skills Within Authentic Context Teach Using Big Math Ideas Teaching Metacognitive Strategies

Most of the time, we are not able to take a field trip on the spur of a moment to the zoo. However, at this website, you are able to have access to a virtual zoo visit. Students are able to observe different animal species in real time. Excellent when teaching about habitats and life cycles.