Teacher resources? Why, there are plenty of books available at the
libraries and book shops! But my friend, how long do you think it is going to
take a teacher to go through all of them? Maybe even one life would not be
enough; he or she would need several lives! Also, he/she did learn something
from graduate school and is not on his/her own. There is a network of teachers
to help out! Fortunately, the Internet can give access to any number of teacher
resources, and it is a hypothetical situation where a person cannot have access
to the World Web at all!
One of the obvious boons of the worldwide web is the facility of accessing quality teacher resources. Usually designed, written, and submitted by fellow instructors, these teacher resources offer fresh approaches, lend themselves to professional development, and (again obviously) contribute to the enhancement of classroom (or virtual classroom) learning of concepts, strategies, methodologies, and skills.
Being a teacher of English as well as helping to develop online courses, I have managed to hunt out and put together a list of the most valuable sites for a teacher. These deal with education also, but mostly teaching. There are all sorts of resources available for persons dealing with the literary aspects of language or linguistics or a rhetorical discipline. If you have not yet made any discovery yourself, then let me help you out by introducing you to some lesser known sites, some teaching ideas and strategies, or a database where information can be had at the click of a button. So you see, extra prayers for more lives are not required!
For starters, online teacher communities offer premium teacher resources. Such gatherings as Pro-teacher Community; Teachers.net; and Tolerance.org feature lesson exchanges for K-3, 4-8, Math, Science, Technology, and gifted students; theme studies materials (for teaching tolerance, for example); live chat; job and classifieds boards; web exclusives; grant information; and submission/publication information and guidelines (where applicable).
For the educator who wishes to be part of developing online courses, web sites acting as databases and those displaying readymade teaching materials and lesson plans (interactive) are very useful. To list out the most popular ones, they are--ReadWriteThink concerned with academic standards, student materials and lesson plans, plus web resources; ESL Resources at OWL (Purdue University's Online Writing Lab that can give you ideas regarding resources and exercises, as well as supply handouts); Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History, a WWII database developed by Tracy Osborn; Web English Teacher that has been compiled by Carla Beard; a link that is hard to load (needs refreshing several times) but useful, is called Just for Teachers, wherein Sheboygan Falls teacher Dawn Hogue offers suggestions, syllabi and book lists, plus links for AP English teachers.
These are not all; there are plenty more! I have just introduced you to a few resources to start you on your journey! All sorts of databases, exchanges and handouts are available on the Net. It is my sincere hope that these websites provide you with more creative approaches to learning and educating, thus benefitting self and students alike!
One of the obvious boons of the worldwide web is the facility of accessing quality teacher resources. Usually designed, written, and submitted by fellow instructors, these teacher resources offer fresh approaches, lend themselves to professional development, and (again obviously) contribute to the enhancement of classroom (or virtual classroom) learning of concepts, strategies, methodologies, and skills.
Being a teacher of English as well as helping to develop online courses, I have managed to hunt out and put together a list of the most valuable sites for a teacher. These deal with education also, but mostly teaching. There are all sorts of resources available for persons dealing with the literary aspects of language or linguistics or a rhetorical discipline. If you have not yet made any discovery yourself, then let me help you out by introducing you to some lesser known sites, some teaching ideas and strategies, or a database where information can be had at the click of a button. So you see, extra prayers for more lives are not required!
For starters, online teacher communities offer premium teacher resources. Such gatherings as Pro-teacher Community; Teachers.net; and Tolerance.org feature lesson exchanges for K-3, 4-8, Math, Science, Technology, and gifted students; theme studies materials (for teaching tolerance, for example); live chat; job and classifieds boards; web exclusives; grant information; and submission/publication information and guidelines (where applicable).
For the educator who wishes to be part of developing online courses, web sites acting as databases and those displaying readymade teaching materials and lesson plans (interactive) are very useful. To list out the most popular ones, they are--ReadWriteThink concerned with academic standards, student materials and lesson plans, plus web resources; ESL Resources at OWL (Purdue University's Online Writing Lab that can give you ideas regarding resources and exercises, as well as supply handouts); Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History, a WWII database developed by Tracy Osborn; Web English Teacher that has been compiled by Carla Beard; a link that is hard to load (needs refreshing several times) but useful, is called Just for Teachers, wherein Sheboygan Falls teacher Dawn Hogue offers suggestions, syllabi and book lists, plus links for AP English teachers.
These are not all; there are plenty more! I have just introduced you to a few resources to start you on your journey! All sorts of databases, exchanges and handouts are available on the Net. It is my sincere hope that these websites provide you with more creative approaches to learning and educating, thus benefitting self and students alike!
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