Designing engaging learning experiences while envisioning creative instructional approaches is challenging for new teachers.
For a perspective on changing instructional practices at the college level, listen to Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught from American Radio Works (2014).
What is the UbD Framework? by Jay McTighe & Grant Wiggins
Flipping the Classroom, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University
Eight Tips for Flipping Your American History Classroom from the Organization of American Historians
Start a Reading Revolution: Flip Your Class with Blogs
10 Pros and Cons of a Flipped Classroom, TeachThought (January 8, 2018)
Online Tools for Teaching and Learning, Torrey Trust, University of Massachusetts Amherst
PBS LearningMedia from the Public Broadcasting Service features thousands of lesson plans, professional development opportunities, videos, and blogs. There are on-demand streaming videos from selected PBS programs plus a special blog with customizable lesson plans and online discussions about media and technology in the classroom.
8 Top YouTube Channels to Boost Classroom Lessons
Technology and Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8, National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at St. Vincent College (2012)
The Lesson Plan Generator, San Diego State University
The New Teacher's Guide to Creating Lesson Plans
Five-Minute Film Festival: 10 Sources for Free Lesson Plans from Edutopia.
Lesson Plans for Multiple Subject from Teacher Planet
Teachers continually seek ways to enliven day-to-day classroom teaching. New teachers tend to emphasize lectures and teacher-centered methods of instruction, often because they feel as though they have little time for, or experience with, other approaches. The web and app resources in this Tech Tool are intended to expand options for teaching while enhancing teacher productivity in the classroom.
Teaching Channel is an online video resource for teachers with materials in all subjects and across all the grade levels. Video topics include lesson planning, student behavior, assessment strategies, and the meeting the Common Core standards.
UbD Related Websites for Social Studies from Jay McTighe
My Lesson plan uses pre-established templates to support lesson planning by teachers. You can customize the app to fit the requirements of your school district or school.
Student-Designed Curriculum Helping Students Create Their Own Lesson Plans
Penultimate is a handwriting and drawing app for the iPad that includes photo annotation. Teachers can use it for on-the-go notetaking in the classroom, recording notes about student performance and activities.
Keynote is a presentation app that allows teachers to prepare dynamic visual slideshows complete with animation charts and transitions from one topic to another.
Cram provides content review through customized flashcards and short quizzes and tests.
BrainPopVideo and Children TV provide video materials for classroom use. BrainPop offers a video a day with quizzes and other follow-up activities; Children TV selects YouTube videos suitable for students of all ages.
5 Best Lesson Planning Apps for Teachers. See also
Web Resources and Apps for Assessing Student Learning
Creating rubrics,designing quizzes,maintaining grades,and completing other student assessment activities can be time consuming parts of a new teacher’s job.The apps and web resources in this Tech Tool are designed to give teachers more resources for handling the many responsibilities of assessing student learning.
Fair Test: The National Center for Fair & Open Testing is an online resource for keeping informed about testing policies and wider education debates about the effectiveness of standardized tests in assessing student learning.
RubiStar is an online tool for creating rubrics electronically.
See also, Rubrics from the Authentic Assessment Toolbox created by Professor Jon Mueller, North Central College, Naperville, Illinois
See Book Chapter on Multimedia for information on Adding Questions and Quizzes to Videos
Link to Quizzes as Active Learning Resources
QuickVoice Recorder lets teachers record classes as a way to review and improve teaching practice and performance.
Great Online Grading Tools from Common Sense Media. See also
Grade Pad is a performance assessment app that lets teachers assess student work on their mobile device as it happens in the classroom.
eClicker displays graphs of class responses to teacher questions as a way to assess student understandings and progress.
Essay Grader includes pre-set comments for student essays, but teachers can add their own personalized comments as well. The goal is to give teachers an electronic alternative to hand writing comments on dozens and dozens of student papers.
Android for Academics includes functions for keeping track of attendance, grade book, and grade charts as well as building grade rubrics and grading papers.
Remind 101 sends one-way text message reminders to students about due dates for assignments and other class activities.