Resources for New Teachers
The Teacher Toolkit
Check out these resources from Region 13 Education Service Center in Austin Texas
This website was developed as a project of the Region 13 Educator Certification Program (ECP) Transition to Teaching grant from the United States Department of Education.
The Teacher Toolkit
Engaging techniques for effective teaching! For every tool you'll find:
An explanation of how and when to use it
A template students can use to implement the tool
A place to take notes about how you use each tool
Videos that will show you the strategies in action
Innovative Teaching Strategies
Innovate Your Classroom
Creating innovative classrooms builds lively teaching, academic rigor, and connective instruction, the three components of engagement. Here are 10 Innovative Teaching Strategies for Better Student Engagement.
GSLA Teacher Academy
Our mission is to improve teacher development and retention in Georgia by engaging, supporting, encouraging, and challenging induction-level teachers to provide effective and high-quality instruction to their students.
Each professional learning experience is structured the same way -
What it is
Why it matters
What teachers can do.
Access all 22 modules from the Governor's School Leadership Academy here! https://bit.ly/GSLAModules
IRIS Center
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), the IRIS Center is headquartered at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Our primary objective is to create resources about evidence-based practices for use in preservice preparation and professional development programs. IRIS then disseminates and offers trainings on those resources.
Find hundreds of resources about these topics:
Accommodations
Assessment
Assistive Technology
Behavior and Classroom Management
Collaboration
Content Instruction
Differentiated Instruction
Disability
Early Interventions/ Early Childhood
Learning Strategies
Mathematics
Reading, Literacy, Language Art
Related Services
RTI (includes Early Intervening)
School Improvement/ Leadership
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