The home page of the Norton Anthology, a popular educational resource for high school English classrooms. It offers illustrations, links to related websites, potential essay questions/paper topics as well as questions to promote students' critical thinking.
I watched this clip of the Beatles performing the play within a play, 'Pyramus and Thisbe' from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in a class and found it not only extremely amusing but also educational. Their interpretation can be seen as a credible imitation of the Mechanicals' performance or simply as entertainment in honor of Shakespeare-either way, it provokes discussion!
This website is a branch of about.com. It updates often and is a great place for articles on general teaching issues. These issues can include lectures vs discussion, and how to integrate technology in the classroom. The page also includes links to several other helpful teaching cites.
I think this is very helpful, from lesson planning to what to do during a fire drill this website has blogs, new, and postings designed to prepare us for secondary education
This site is awesome at keeping teachers updated on current policies, bills, and acts that are being propossed and acted upon. It basically tells you everything you need to know about what is going on in the news in an educational sense in the U.S.
This site displays various education statistics from around the country. These statistics could help you decide where you would like to try to get a job in the future and help you better understand the area.
A TED talk from Sugata Mitra about education as a self-organizing process; includes information from some incredible social experiments with non-English speaking learners in India and elsewhere.
More Sugata Mitra; an overlapping presentation with his other (linked) talk. Fighting the concept of design as the most effective instrument of education.
This blog offers very insightful articles on how to improve traditional teaching methods of teaching English as a second language, and it explores language acquisition more in-depth as well. Many of these are incorporated into different strategic lesson plans.
A great online resource that not only provides free lesson plans for teachers, but also offers teachers daily news and trivia, blogs on current issues, and information on new technological tools, all relating to education today.
This is a site which sets high goals for a future educational system that is collaborative on a global scale, up-to-date in current technology, and focused on the holistic growth of all children.
Its the only professionally recognized education organization on campus. Essentially the student version of the teachers union (the I.E.A). It has really great benefits. Obviously a bit of a shameless promotion on my part.
We all want to be teachers, but I think this helps us look at what kind of teachers we want to be. I know I don't want to be another bland, boring teacher who just goes by the books. Ken Robinson helps us see what schools do stop stop us reaching our full potential and why we need more creativity and arts - things that students will be passionate about in class - in the classroom.
A TED talk (because that's more or less all I'll be posting) about the status of creativity in early education, and the implications for all levels of education (and beyond).
Ken Robinson describes how schools are killing creativity and most importantly highlights why it is so important in our futures. He urges us to maintain creativity in our curriculum so English teachers, please do your part to keep it.
This website is absolutely AMAZING in terms of technology resources for future teachers. They range from the simple to the most complex ways of incorporating technology into everyday lesson plans, as well as giving you categories to choose what types of technology you would like.