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TEACHING RESOURCES K12 teachers will find quality teaching resources across the curriculum throughout our website. We offer teaching strategies, methods, ideas, tips, downloads, articles, links, and more.
If you missed past newsletters, we are now starting an archive so that you may read them online. Be sure to sign up for our free monthly newsletter with teaching strategies, ideas, and tips. Our reading section includes ideas for using pictures books in the classroom for teaching reading strategies and reading skills. We've included a children's literature book nook with reviews of children's books, and a literature circle (also know as book clubs) section with classroom resources. You will want to check out our Book Scouts Reading Incentive Program, worksheets, surveys, quizzes, links, and more. Come into our writing studio for K12 writing resources, including Six Traits of Writing, posters, rubrics, writing frames, and more. We've put together poetry resources available for download, a great list of links to poetry sites, and a Poetry Student Showcase Cafe. We've loaded our math toolbox with helpful teaching resources, worksheets, and lessons. You will want to download a copy of our twenty page annotated math and literature list for your files. We've gathered together science resources, created an Amazon powered science bookstore, and shared science Teaching Points Slideshows (using Microsoft Powerpoint) for you to use in your classroom. Our history section has teaching resources, literature for teaching social studies, and a great collection of websites. Add your classroom website to our site, get wired with the latest technology, pick up some cool website tools, and find technology sites aligned with your curriculum goals. Take a virtual trip to an art museum. Come back for more resources to help you teach art and complete art projects in your classroom (coming soon). Download reader's theatre scripts, play drama games, and more. We've done the work for you. Do your students need safe links to find quality information for their research projects and research papers? We've scoured the Internet and put together resources on different topics to help you out. Download back to school resources and activities and ring in the new school year. We've put together resources for interesting and different thematic units. Complete an author study, check out children's author websites, and read interviews with children's authors. This is your classroom management toolbox with ideas and strategies for running your classroom. We are sharing our Microsoft Powerpoint slideshows we created for teaching and learning in K12 classrooms. A teachable book is a well written picture book with cross curricular connections. In this section we are sharing teaching ideas, tips, and strategies for utilizing great picture books in your classroom. As we come close to the holidays in 2010, we are adding teaching resources including ideas, activities, reading passages, book suggestions, and more. Send your students or your own children to our Panda Pages. We've packed our pages with games and kid safe and super cool website links.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Grow professionally by getting involved in professional teaching organizations. Associations provide teachers with the chances to network with other teachers from around the world. Attending conferences is one of the best ways (not to mention fun) to learn the latest thinking in education, the newest teaching methods, and share your own classroom experiences with fellow educators. As you begin to grow and learn through your local, state, and national organizations, you might want to become actively involved by presenting at conferences or running for an elected office. Playing an active role in your teacher organization can provide many benefits and awards. Involved teachers walk through open doors of opportunity.
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