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The Best English Teacher Resources
One of the things I love about working in education is the collaboration among teachers. We work together to better serve our students. Below are many of the best English teacher resources (and any other kind of teacher!) I use to develop my teaching skills. Classroom Management ClassDojo — Help students evaluate and reflect on their own behavior with this online behavior management application. Community A to Z Teacher Stuff — This is a forum with teachers from across the continent sharing their expertise and resources. Lessons Teachers Pay Teachers — Tons of lessons plans and units on every subject imaginable from teachers across the the U.S. Standards Common Core App for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch — Download the app for your iP hone and you’ll have the standards at your fingertips. Common Core App for Android — Download the app for your Android-powered smartphone and you’ll have the standards at your fingertips. CorePlanner — Integrate and track standards in your lesson plans online. Technology
The importance of surprise
There should be surprise, delight or even discomfort as one explores. True inquiry involves discovery. The task at hand should awaken curiosity and take the student on an adventure. Mere topical research requires little more than gathering and is often sleep inducing. It is up to the teacher to frame research projects around questions of import and tasks that require fresh thinking, problem-solving and imagination. The following checklist was designed to help teachers determine whether their research assignments are likely to produce surprise, awaken curiosity and challenge students at the highest possible levels. to read the full explanation. Image courtesy of Fighting-Wolf-Fist on Deviant Art 1. Paul Simon said it so well when he sang in Kodachrome: When I think back On all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew would win little attention or audience if the solutions to their mysteries were lying in plain sight. 4. 5. 7. 8. 9.
Twenty Ideas for Engaging Projects
The start of the school year offers an ideal time to introduce students to project-based learning. By starting with engaging projects, you'll grab their interest while establishing a solid foundation of important skills, such as knowing how to conduct research, engage experts, and collaborate with peers. In honor of Edutopia's 20th anniversary, here are 20 project ideas to get learning off to a good start. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Please tell us about the projects you are planning for this school year.
Questions of Import
Difference of Opinion Some questions matter more to some than others. Significance is defined to some extent by personal issues, tastes and interests. Some might pose questions about media, media coverage and media literacy. Awakening a Sense of Import In some cases, young students may not recognize the import of an image, a poem or a set of numbers. The painting mentioned in the sample lesson above, "Four Boys on the Beach" by Winslow Homer, is a case in point. The boys' body language may be a matter of import but young students may not naturally fix their attention on how the boys are sitting. In an effort to find a larger version of this painting on Google Images, the group might chance upon "Ship-Building, Gloucester Harbor," which is a composite of the water color above and three other of his works. By definition, questions of import are intended to explore meanings. Making School and Learning Important
Envision Schools Project Exchange
Goals Details Duration: 90 minutes Assessments: Student discussions Description The purpose of this activity is to help students start to figure out which questions can guide deeper thinking and research about the history of South Africa. In World History: 1. (e.g. rubrics, examplars, websites, etc.) Author Reflections
Embracing Complexity
Wondering, Pondering, Wandering and Considering For the young to make their own meanings, they need to be able to shift back and forth across the four operations of wondering, pondering, wandering and considering. Each has its own role and its own time, but sometimes they may operate concurrently. Under the old topical approach to school research, students were asked to do little more than scoop and smush. In what ways was the life remarkable? Such questions of import quoted from the Biography Maker cannot be answered with simple scooping and smushing. Wandering and Stumbling to Meaning When students have experienced only the scooping and smushing model, they have little grasp of what it means to explore a question of import. Questions of import, being puzzles or mysteries, almost always require that the researcher muck around a bit, digging into the raw information like a detective seeking clues. Source It takes some wandering about to learn about these people. 1.
Welcome
Browse Resources Verizon Foundation proudly partners with some of the country’s top educational organizations to provide you with the latest topics, tools and trends in education. Created by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ARTSEDGE provides resources and examples for teachers to teach in, through and about the arts. The site includes lesson plans, advocacy and professional development resources, and up-to-date information on arts programs from around the world. Visit ARTSEDGE Developed by the Council for Economic Education, EconEdLink provides teachers and students with lessons and classroom learning activities based on economics topics in the news and real-time economics data. Visit EconEdLink Presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities, EDSITEment features lesson plans and additional classroom resources about art and culture, literature and language arts, foreign language, history and social studies. Visit EDSITEment Visit Illuminations Visit ReadWriteThink
A Brilliant Question
Not Essential There is a difference between essential questions and brilliant questions. While essential questions touch upon the most important issues of life, they are rarely brilliant. Essential questions touch our hearts and souls. They are central to our lives. They help to define what it means to be human. Most important thought during our lives will center on such essential questions. What does it mean to be a good friend? In contrast with essential questions, brilliant questions are important for their power to unlock mysteries and open doors. What will it take to win her heart? Brilliant questions may also be essential, but they almost always deal with strategy and change of some sort. A Vivid Example In studying important figures from history we might ask the essential question, "What kind of person was Joan of Arc or Matthew Flinders?" But all this gathering may not bring us to the heart of the matter. Here is where the brilliant question comes into play. Where did Joan go wrong?
Interrupted Reading Interrupted reading is a close reading technique that consists of dividing a pas ...
Sorry! This resource is only accessible to certain users at this time. We eventually show all the resources to all our users but most likely this one is being used on a research study that requires limiting access to particular users. Please contact our help desk if you believe that there is a mistake. From The Things They Carried by Tim O.docxFrom Cold Mountain.docxFrom An American Childhood by Annie Dillard.docx Accommodations: The teacher may vary the chosen passage to accommodate students with special needs. Contributed by: Cathy Edwins Name of Author/Source: Cathy Edwins District/Organization of Contributor(s): Is this Resource freely Available? * Please note that examples of resources are not intended as complete curriculum.
