Here I share the best links I’ve run across based on teaching and education. In this edition: 12 things kids want from their teachers, ocean themed classrooms, how the brain learns, Educational Youtube videos, and much more.
- 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers – Classroom 2.0 Wow! What a great resource. I don’t know how many of these would be filtered. In that case, I say pick the ones you want and download them at home with a browser addon. Then you can bring them into the class with a USB stick or other hard drive media device.
- 12 Things Kids Want from Their Teachers | Angela Maiers Educational Services, Inc. I am posting this in my classroom in a couple locations where I can see it every day. What an amazing and helpful tool for teaching.
- Children ARE the Future – Dream With Me? | Angela Maiers Educational Services, Inc. “Let’s dream of education that means learning how to be a good mother, father, husband, and wife.”
- Clutter-Free Classroom: Beach / Ocean Themed Classroom This gave me the idea to make a river (in the same bulletin board way) in my room next year. I can add trees and animals. This can be an effective way to relax students in the learning process.
- Clutter-Free Classroom: Show Us Your Desk/Teacher Table Linky {Week 4 CFCProject} I need to unclutter my desk, I love this short and helpful post for that.
- Connecticut superintendents propose a radically different approach to education | Dangerously Irrelevant “Unlike most school reformers floating ‘tweak-the-status-quo’ proposals these days (let’s test kids more! let’s get rid of a few teachers! let’s make school longer! let’s lecture better!), the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPS
- Educational Insights » Blog Archive » 62 Things You Can Do With Dropbox I have heard a lot about dropbox. This article enlightened me and I will be trying it in my teaching preparation.
- Educational Insights » Blog Archive » How the Brain Learns – Great Video to Show Students that Practice Pays “What a great video to illustrate to our students how learning can be work and it takes practice. Just because something seems hard the first time, don’t give up!”
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity – Changing the Pictures of the Classroom in Students’ Heads by John Nail I guarantee you this goal sheet in front of you will produce a self-directed learner
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity – Marzano Causal Teacher Evaluation Model by Robert La Grasssa I think we should all be observing ourselves daily as the evaluation system is changing more fluidly than ever. This is one way educators are being evaluated.
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity – Visioning New Schools with David Warlick “Master learners today and master teachers must model lifelong learning”
- Successful Teaching: 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Teacher Some of these are very obvious while others made me think about self-improvement of my craft.
- Successful Teaching: A Message to My New Teacher Some excellent insight into what kids and parents want from their teacher and classroom.
- You Don’t Have the Right to Take Over Our Public Schools in Oklahoma
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