Resources Toolkit for New Teachers

UDL Guidelines 2.0 The goal of education in the 21st century is not simply the mastery of content knowledge or use of new technologies. It is the mastery of the learning process. Education should help turn novice learners into expert learners—individuals who want to learn, who know how to learn strategically, and who, in their own highly individual and flexible ways, are well prepared for a lifetime of learning. The UDL Guidelines, an articulation of the UDL framework, can assist anyone who plans lessons/units of study or develops curricula (goals, methods, materials, and assessments) to reduce barriers, as well as optimize levels of challenge and support, to meet the needs of all learners from the start. The UDL Guidelines are organized according to the three main principles of UDL that address representation, expression, and engagement. Learn more about the UDL Guidelines: Three primary principles guide UDL—and provide structure for the Guidelines: To learn more, click on one of the Guidelines below.

Fostering Creativity With Makerspaces | Edutopia I've always found a sense of peace in the creative process. It's a time when I feel like I don't have to stick with the rules in place for all the different parts of my life. That freedom helps me come up with some of my most creative ideas and exciting projects. I always come up with some big projects for my own students, but what about the rest of the building? Here are some tips and tricks for putting together a makerspace in your school, and some thoughts on how it can be beneficial to your students. 1. Photo Credit: Nick Provenzano Before anything else, you need to have a space that will work for students and teachers. 2. Once you've found the space, you'll need seed money. If grants aren't an option, you can also try crowdfunding, a practice where you use a software tool to raise lots of small donations from your community. 3. One of the things that we didn't want to do was buy tons of tools for the students and tell them, "Do something with these." a. b. c. d. 4.

Famous Photos: 50 Influential Photographs That Changed Our World Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania. Apollo 11 crew members capture mankind’s first physical brush with the moon in July, 1969. Robert Capa immortalizes the treatment of French women who were believed to have been Nazi collaborators during liberation “ugly carnivals” in 1944, France. A Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier during a rehearsal for the Independence Day ceremony in July, 2011. A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994. Terezka, a girl who grew up in a concentration camp, shocks counselors at a Center for Disturbed Children when she draws a picture of her “home” in Poland. In 2007, Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months. Connie Kopelov and Phyllis Siegel become the first gay couple married in Manhattan in 2011. Bobby Moore embraces Pele at the 1970 World Cup finals. Savannah Cox

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