Transforming Education
Self-Management Strategies
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
American Psychological Association
Teaching Is Fundamental
It's important for teachers to have a strong support system—especially in the first few years of their career. Help teachers' partners, spouses, and friends understand the most compassionate ways to provide emotional support with a...
Transforming Education
Self-Efficacy Strategies
Scholars with high levels of self-efficacy perform better in school. Instructors review a list of strategies for enhancing self-efficacy skills. They discover how to teach learners to appropriately define success, celebrate progress, and...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Art Lesson Plans
The main page for this site's section on lesson plans. It describes how to build an art lesson plan and has links to instructional activity collections for all grade bands, for substitute teachers, integration with drama, cartoon...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kindness in the Classroom
Kindness in the Classroom is a multi-part video series designed to give educators insight into the positive impacts of teaching mindfulness in a classroom setting. The series focuses on implementing the Kindness Curriculum; a free...
Songs for Teaching
Songs for Teaching
Finding music to use to teach across the curriculum is no longer a problem once you use this site. Songs are grouped by subject area, and cover classroom management as well as content areas. There even lesson plans and ideas from other...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Files for Art Teachers
A large collection of files that have been contributed by art teachers. Examples of topics include rubrics, lessons, ideas for critiquing art, assessments, icebreakers, classroom management, games, parent communication, and lots more.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Life's Little Lessons: New Experiences
Childhood is full of new experiences. Whether going to the doctor, traveling on an airplane, or visiting a relative's house for the first time, talking about and planning for new experiences can help children manage their fears and...
PE Central
Pe Central: Physical Education Lesson Plans: Pe Central
An outstanding site for PE lesson plan ideas, Classroom Management ideas, health lesson plan ideas as well as ideas for field day activities. The lessons are broken down by grade levels. Ideas to teach a comprehensive physical education...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M5: L1: Layout and Lay Up: Managing Workbooks
In Module 5 Lesson 1 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn how to work with large spreadsheets that extend beyond the screen. They will change the view, use split windows, freeze rows and columns, remove gridlines, etc. Includes...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Differentiation via the Flipped Classroom
Part III of a four-part professional development tutorial on creating a flipped classroom. Learn how to manage objectives, assessments and lessons through new technologies and innovations.
PBS
Pbs: America Responds Classroom Resources
Online PBS lesson plan to help students understand world conflict and cooperation and the rights of people all over the world. Through this lesson, students learn how to respond to world conflict, such as September 11.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Health Problems Series: Stress [Pdf]
The activities in this instructional activity unit can help students to learn more about what stress is and how to effectively manage it. After identifying stressors, they will keep a record of how they handled stressful situations that...
PBS
Pbs: Real Life Math: Restaurant Manager
Restaurant manager Tad Peelen explains how he uses math in his work in this video from KAET. In the accompanying classroom activity, students complete an activity involving one aspect of math that Mr. Peleen mentions: determining...
Federal Reserve Bank
Katrina's Classroom: Teaching Money Skills for Life
Students will participate in Katrina's Classroom curriculum provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The lesson emphasizes the importance of being prepared for a financial emergency. This is a Commerce and Information Technology...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Veterans Day and the Meaning of Sacrifice
Use this PBS NewsHour Classroom lesson plan to help students explore the challenges facing our nation's veterans today, including mental health issues and long wait lines for treatment.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating Class Rules a Beginning to Creating Community
Contains plans for two lessons that teach about proper classroom behavior and creating community by discussing why they are in school and what they need in order to accomplish their goals while there. In addition to objectives and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Differentiation via the Flipped Class: Lesson 1
Manage time to assess learning objectives through flipping the classroom assessments ","Understand how the flipped classroom provides an environment for individualized learning","Create a lesson plan for the assessment that will be...
Goshen College
Planning Art Lessons
For the new art teacher or the veteran. This is a helpful reminder of ways to organize your teaching methods. It could spark some life (back) into your classrooms.
Other
Wizzlewolf's Webpage for Beginning Teachers
Is this your first year teaching? Here are tricks of the trade that are helpful to know. Includes tips on management, discipline, lesson plans for all grades and subjects and more! This is your complete survival guide!
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Literature Circles Getting Started
Contains plans for nine lessons to help teachers start using literature circles in the classroom, including detailed explanations of all the roles and procedures. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Solid Waste Takes Over
For this lesson, students explore solid waste and its effects on the environment. They will collect classroom trash for analysis and build model landfills in order to understand the process and impact of solid waste management. Students...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: What Is Currency? Lessons From Historic Africa
From the Smithsonian, this site offers lessons and resources on currency, its use (in the form of gold dust, salt, or metal objects) as an instrument of trade in historic Africa, and its requirements as an instrument of trade in the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Trash Talkin'
In this activity, students collect, categorize, weigh and analyze classroom solid waste. The class collects waste for a week and then student groups spend a day sorting and analyzing the garbage with respect to recyclable and non...