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100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers. Although YouTube has been blocked from many/most schools, for obvious reasons and not so obvious ones. YouTube does provide great resources and content for teachers and students. View the list of the Top 100 Videos for Teachers. This list is provided by SmartTeaching.org, a leading online resource for current teachers, and aspiring education students and student teachers. YouTube's 100 Best Teacher Videos: History These videos can give your students a better insight into historical events. Science Make science more fun and interactive by using these videos in class. Language Get advice on improving your language class or use these videos as classroom supplements.

Arts These videos provide great information on art and art education programs for you and your students. ARTSplash! Inspiration Everyone has a hard day sometimes, and you can remind yourself why you became a teacher by checking out these videos. Classroom Management How-Tos and Guides Technology Humor. Common Core Practice | Narrative, Argumentative and Informative Writing About Baseball. Gregory Bull/Associated PressAs movies and television have shown us, a cherished ball does not have to travel far from your hands to fall into peril. Go to related article » The 2013 major league baseball season began this week, and Sarah Gross, Jonathan Olsen and their New Jersey students– many among them passionate Yankees or Mets fans — couldn’t pass up the opportunity to explore America’s pastime for this week’s writing prompts.

Enjoy. Narrative Writing Sports: “Don’t Let Your Signed Memories Turn Into a Plot Twist”Common Core Standards: RI3, RI4, W3, W4, RH4, WHST4, WHST10 You know the plot: the main character has a valuable signed baseball that he, or she, cherishes. And then something happens. Your Task: Compose a one- or two-paragraph scene in which a valuable signed baseball is destroyed. Before you do the task, you might… Brainstorm a list of ways that a signed baseball might be lost. Extension Activity: Check out this response from one of our students, Sean K. Informative Writing.

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Social Studies resources. ODE. Interactive Websites. Title 1 conference. MLLC.ORG. Take a Giant Step: A Blueprint for Teaching Young Children in a Digital Age. In January 2010, the Cooney Center, in collaboration with the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, convened a Digital Age Teacher Preparation Council, co-chaired by Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University and Michael H. Levine, the Cooney Center’s Executive Director, at Sesame Workshop. The Council’s eighteen members from academia, industry, and policy assessed current practices in early education and elementary school teaching and have designed a professional development “blueprint” to advance the use of effective digital media in teaching and learning, with a special emphasis on instruction for underserved students.

This report, Take a Giant Step, represents the Council’s multi-sector action plan to enhance teacher education and a higher quality, 21st century approach to the learning and healthy development of children in preschool and the primary grades. Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles. TeacherTube - Teach the World | Teacher Videos | Lesson Plan Videos | Student Video Lessons | Online Teacher Made Videos | TeacherTube.com.

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