WOW -- I continue to be overwhelmed by the quantity of excellent teaching resources available for free on the web. Teachers are not only good thieves, but also generous givers! My Delicious account got a workout tonight, with 10 more excellent sites bookmarked, tagged, and saved. Here are the top 5 I'm going to work with soon, mostly as I re-write my English 9 course to fit competency-based learning:
MDE's Common Core page will keep you up to date on the transition from the GLCEs and HSCEs to nationwide Common Core.
Tools for Educators is a create-your-own paradise! From worksheets and crosswords to dice and bingo cards, you can make and print all the manipulatives you could ever want.
Rubistar helps teachers create their own rubrics for ANYTHING! It gives you baseline ideas for assigning and assessing posters, brochures, oral presentations, research projects, and a whole lot more! I would have LOVED something like this as a new teacher; what a resource!
Grant Wrangler and Donors Choose are grant databases specifically for educators. I'm going to look for someone to fund our juniors' 3-day mock legislature, led by Student Statesmanship Institute. If we can get it underwritten, then we can use the student activities fund for additional enrichment activities!
What instructional sources do you love? Please reply and share!
It's almost like drinking out of a fire hose sometimes isn't it? I too am amazed at the shear volume of things I can use in my teaching and learning practice as well.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that you have found in Delicious a great tool for saveing and searching for things you are interested in. I use it more of a search tool than even Google, depending on what I am looking for.
Delicious is basically human-curated search. You can find the stuff that is deemed important by others in a way that is sometimes not possible by using a Google search.
Thanks for your great observations and reflection.