Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators offers teacher resources, including categorized lists of sites that are useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.
Annenberg media. Provides information regarding Benchmarks in a diverse cross section of education. This was found through Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators.
ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.
Arts & Humanities --Language Arts --Dance, Music --Visual Arts Educational Technology Physical Education --Exercise/Movement Students will enjoy this lesson that exercises their bodies as well as their creativity. alpha-bod, alphabet, human alphabet, movement, creativity, imagination Arrange students into groups. (Four might be an ideal-sized group for this activity.)
In its weekly 'Teacher Feature,' Education World highlights neat activities and classroom practices from educators in all locations and at all levels. Recently, three educators who have enjoyed the spotlight in this feature shared some writing-based activities that they and their students love.
eSchool News covers the intersection of technology and innovation in education, focusing on how technology helps improve learning and transform schools.
eSchool News covers the intersection of technology and innovation in education, focusing on how technology helps improve learning and transform schools.
Two veteran educators from Fairfax County, V.A. are in the process of writing a book using anecdotal data from their experiences on how they believe the introduction of smart phones has severely decreased critical thinking and engaged learning in their respective classrooms. Joe Clement and Matt Miles "say the free periods that are part of their school schedule have deteriorated from lively talk among students and teachers to silent screen reading, each student in a little world," according to The Washington Post.
Ever since its opening in 2013, San Francisco-based AltSchool has caught the attention of many in its unique approach to teaching pre-K through grade 8 students. In the short time since its first building opened, it has been able to increase enrollment and open new schools thanks to being thought of as the 21st century answer to education by many Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
With the demand for 21st century skills in today's classroom, educators are feeling the pressure to prepare their students with the "skills of tomorrow," right now. Considering the rate at which technology is expanding, however, this goal can easily intimidate even the most tech-savvy educator. Never fear!
With the demand for 21st century skills in today's classroom, educators are feeling the pressure to prepare their students with the "skills of tomorrow," right now. Considering the rate at which technology is expanding, however, this goal can easily intimidate even the most tech-savvy educator. Never fear!
Technology and Innovation in Education (http://www.tie.net) offers online classes, including Web Literacy for Educators. This group is a sharing place for web resources.
There have been a number of courses which are increasingly becoming important for the purpose of managing the education and knowledge base of the students and learners. Changes which are related to the emerging career options are necessary to be engaged for the purpose of creating the overall value which the students and leaders will be able to derive from their education.