An Online Library of Professional Resources for All Educators
Like our tangible library, facilitating access to current resources requires constant maintenance. If you discover links that are not working properly, or if you have links you would like to recommend to be added to this site, please email me at: b_waters@sau9.org
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REMOTE TEACHING AND LEARNING - SPECIFIC RESOURCES
COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments to help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.
Simple to follow information to foster short video-based discussions in a remote learning environment.
Google Resource Hub for Teaching at Home
A temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Free arts integration curriculum using the history of popular music and culture to help engage students in social studies, language arts, geography, science, STEAM, general music and more.
COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION SPECIFIC RESOURCES
5 Reasons You Should Consider Competency-Based Language Teaching In Your Classroom
FluentU: General Educator Blog
Advancing Competency-Based Pathways to College and Career Readiness
A State Policy Framework for Graduation Requirements, Assessments, and Accountability
Competency-Based Education Gains Momentum
Blog: EducauseReview
Competency Based Education Is Working
Article: Education Week
Competency Based Education Network
Resources: CBE Principle & Standards & Guides for planning & implementing Competency-Based Education
Faculty Role In Competency-Based Education vs Traditional Education
Article: BlackBoard Blog
How New Hampshire Transformed to a Competency-Based System
Article: International Association for K-12 Online Learning
ARTICLES & BLOGS
A Cornucopia of Multidisciplinary Teaching
Article: Edutopia
Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding
Articles: Edutopia
Articles: US News & World Report
How teachers can best use TED Talks in class, from the perspective of a student
Blog: TED
Ideas for Incorporating Music Into Core High School Classes
Article: US News & World Report
The Importance and Benefits of Teacher Collegiality in Schools
Article: Science Direct - Determining major outcomes and benefits of highly collaborative and collegial cultures in educational organizations
Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick?
Article: New York Times - Opinion
Blog: Specialization may be necessary to implement a solution but is insufficient for conceiving of that solution?
Article: New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry
New York Times: Learning Network
ArticleS: Resources for Bringing the World Into Your Classroom
Website: News for Students and Teacher Resources
PDF Article: Why Protocols?
Teach Like Everyone's Listening
Blog. Arts Integration: Not Your Grandma's Piano Recital
Article: The Economist
Teens, technology, and human potential in 2020
Article: PEW Research Center
Tips for Teaching High-Functioning People with Autism
Article: Indiana Resource Center for Autism
Want teens to pay attention? Tell them they’re being manipulated
Article: The Hechinger Report
Why Introverted Teachers Are Burning Out
Article: The Atlantic
IDEAS TO TRY
Excellent Website for professionals in education (by The University of Texas Libraries)
Academic & Career Tech Curriculum & Content (Requires free registration)
Open Educational Resources - news about education materials with permissive usage licenses that allow them to be re-mixed and re-purposed for learning
A free professional learning network for innovative educators to share their best ideas and practices with each other – any time, anywhere
In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 goals to end poverty, fight inequality and stop climate change - for a better world by 2030. Website features lesson plans and creative resources for teaching
The Great Escape Room site for educators
How do Escape Rooms help students learn?
Articles: Stories for Education - U.C. Berkeley
Get the NASA App
OER Commons & Open Education - The Future of Education, Co-Created With You
Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning content through engaging educators in new participatory processes and effective technologies for engaging with learning
Openly-licensed textbooks to be freely used online, and/or adapted, printed, and distributed. A variety of textbooks are available in just about every content area
Sign Up for Free Access to 400,000 Lesson Plans, Classroom Activities and Professional Development Resources
Teach effectively by creating your own interactive learning experiences-or adopt exemplars made by teachers and Smithsonian experts.
Lesson Plans: based on movies & films
Teacher Resources and Professional Development
Annenberg Learner: Multimedia resources for teaching and learning
A Teacher's Guide to Immersive Lessons
What does a truly immersive lesson look like?
A collection of open source images free for use - including commercial. The illustrations' main color is editable and the images are regularly updated with new additions and can be downloaded in either an SVG or PNG format and color can be edited
Promoting and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms offering free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and grade level
VISUAL & AUDIO LINKS
15 Most Amazing Virtual Field Trips
Videos: The Louvre, White House, Smithsonian, Easter Island...
Podcasts with PDF files for each lesson (full transcript and vocabulary notes)
Videos: Explore Hundreds of Different Careers
Videos: Teaching students using TV show and movie clips.
Over 3,000 documentaries published - many free - most of them are full length docs - organized in 25 different categories, searchable by keywords, sortable by rating, comments, and titles
Encourage Creativity: Teach the Arts
YouTube Videos
Create educational games that reinforce learning with these free, classroom-ready digital resources - with interactive formats that students can play from any computer, tablet, or smartphone
Videos, Animations, & Simulations: Free educational resources
From Eastern Illinois University: ITC Launchpad provides a quick and easy way to navigate the many online teaching and learning with technology resources
Podcasts: Innovation & Leadership
Library of Congress: American Memory Digital Collections
Phenomenal digital resources for all content areas
Podcasts: "Product designers, nanotechnologists, data-visualization experts, industry researchers, and pioneers of computer interfaces work side by side to invent—and reinvent—how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology."
Videos: Speeches & Lectures
PurposeGames lets you create and play games - free
Search for quizzes on any topic - or make your own
Videos: From Teachers and Students Everywhere
Share what you know and love through presentations, infographics, documents and more
A site to make Jeopardy, Speed Matching, Millionaire, & other games. Create a game, or use one already made
TEDx - Ideas from Communities Around the Globe
Video: Celebrating locally-driven ideas and elevating them to a global stage