background preloader

Teacher tools

Facebook Twitter

School Pen Pals and Key Pals. Play around with the map below to find penpals, or submit your own! You can DRAG the map by click-drag, you can also zoom in real close. Have fun! <b>JavaScript must be enabled in order for you to use Google Maps. </b> However, it seems JavaScript is either disabled or not supported by your browser.

To view Google Maps, enable JavaScript by changing your browser options, and then try again. Map Data Imagery ©2015 NASA, TerraMetrics Map DataImagery ©2015 NASA, TerraMetrics Map Please choose a grade to see available pen pal locations! NOTE: Age - 5 = Grade (Approx) Narrow by Grade: Need help with grades? U.S. schools are done by 'grades'. Currently Selected:None *IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Teacher's Corner DOES NOT SCREEN ANYONE that uses our penpals service. Ten Ideas for Using Instagram in the Classroom. I didn't understand the pull of Instagram the first time I heard about it. To me, it sounded like a fancy app that would take regular pictures and make them look like they were crappy, old photographs.

Eventually, though, I changed my mind. I saw the artistic side of the app and eventually began to see the social interaction. Instagram became another layer of sharing our world and telling our stories. After spending a few months using it, I see a powerful element that I had failed to understand before. And yet, for me, Instagram has done the opposite. So, with that in mind, I'm thinking of ten ways I might use Instagram with my students next year: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.Just Let Them Take Pictures: I'm thinking of letting kids take pictures for the sake of taking pictures. ePals. Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling | Coursera. About the Course Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling introduces educators to digital storytelling and explores ways to use digital stories to enhance students’ learning experience.

The course is designed to be comprehensive yet fundamental. By comprehensive we mean that the course provides a solid foundation to all of the components of a digital story and illustrates these components with tutorials, example stories and links to additional readings. The course also provides a hands-on opportunity for learners to create their own digital stories. Course Syllabus Over the course of five weeks, we will cover the following topics: Week 1: Choosing a topic and purpose Week 1 introduces you to the basics of digital storytelling. Week 2: Writing an effective script and creating a storyboard Week 2 will focus on scriptwriting as you learn the steps in developing and writing a script for a digital story. Recommended Background The course is primarily intended for: En F-6 torg Kampanjer Liber. Multimedia-English. I-can-read-learning-to-read-at-home. Hands-down, my all time favorite thing to teach is reading.

I especially love teaching children who are just learning to read. I taught Pre-K and Kindergarten for almost six years and cannot tell how rewarding it is to see little ones emerging as readers. This blog post aims to help parents gain ideas and approaches on how to help children who are ready to explore their reading competencies at home. As a parent, you will be your child's first, most consistent and most significant teacher. "Parents are key reading role models. High frequency reading parents are six times more likely to have high frequency reading kids.

" (2008 Kids & Family Reading Report) At home you can focus on different kinds of reading. 1. Source: Nancy Ann's blog Your child needs to be read to consistently. You can even record your voice and add photos (of the story or your own) as you read . The free app is called Adobe Voice and is ideal for iPads. Visit your local library to see if they have regular shared readings. 2.

Links

Europeisk språkportfolio. Ikt. Topics and lessonideas. Printables. Lgr11- Bedömning. Learning English - Home. EnglishClub. TheSchoolRun | Free English and maths worksheets and SATs papers for KS1 and KS2. Språklänkportalen - Startsidan. 50 Incredibly Useful Links For Learning & Teaching The English Language - Teaching a new language to non-native speakers may be one of the most challenging educational jobs out there, so ELL teachers can use all of the help they can get!

Thankfully, many excellent resources for ELL and ESL exist online, from full-service websites to reference tools and communities, all designed to make the task of educating ELL students just a little bit easier and more effective. We’ve scoured the Internet to share 50 of the best of these resources, and we hope you’ll find lots of valuable content and tools through these incredibly useful links for ELL educators. Websites Resource tools, printables, and other great stuff for ELL educators are all available on these sites. Articles & Advice Check out resource lists, journal articles, and ideas for best practices in ELL on these links.

Organizations Take advantage of the great opportunities and resources available from these organizations that benefit ELL teachers. Learning Resources Teaching Resources Reference Communities & Blogs. Teachit - English teaching resources. TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC. 6 Useful tools for teaching and learning vocabulary. I don’t know about you, but I always find that my learners need as much help in learning and retaining vocabulary as I can give them. I’ve been doing a bit of searching for online tools that can help me in this quest, and here are a few that you might also find helpful… Word bucket Word Bucket is a personal English dictionary, notebook and vocabulary learning game.It enables students to save all new words to their personal Bucket and learn them through fun tests and games – ideal for individual revision or class competition.

It’s a perfect classroom tool for learning words. Sentence / paragraph scrambler Add text to a box and get it automatically scrambled for you. Omnilexica Omnilexica is a free online tool that aims to provide definitions for all English words and expressions, usage examples, pronunciation and other linguistic resources. Vocabulary handout maker with pictures on various topics This is a really cool app for generating worksheets. Crossword puzzle maker. MyEnglishTeacher.net, My English Teacher, My English Teacher.net, the site for ESL, EFL, English and English as a second language students and teachers. Grammar Tools for English. Learning grammar rules doesn't have to be difficult if you take advantage of the many free English grammar teaching tools available online.

There are several reasons why you might want to improve your understanding of the rules of grammar. For example: Without good grammar, clear communication is nearly impossible. Proper grammar keeps you from being misunderstood while expressing your thoughts and ideas.Writing and speaking correctly gives you the appearance of credibility. If you're attempting to build a reputation as an expert in your profession, this is extremely important.Other people consider good grammar to be a mark of intelligence and education. Don't allow strangers to form a negative impression of you based on your poor communication skills. Unfortunately, there is no shortcut to learning English grammar.

The Internet is a wonderful resource for free English grammar teaching tools. Daily Grammar Grammar-Monster Englishpage.com 1-Language. British Council | TeachingEnglish. Tools. SchoolsWorld. Why do children lie? We look at some of the different types of lies children tell, and the possible reasons behind them... Find out how a can-do attitude, a little self-belief, and a willingness to get things wrong sometimes can set a good... Do misbehaving children need punishment or positive discipline – and what’s the difference anyway? Learn how to... Helpful tips on how to talk to your children so that your voice is heard and understood - why you shouldn’t take it... Young children may surprise you with the amount of energy they have!

Bedwetting might be more common than you realise in children of this age. Many children seem to enjoy spending time with older children. Children, like adults, are surrounded by messages from the media. How do you respond to a child who wants everything?