AdLit
Ad lit.org: Professional Development: The Route to Reform
A discussion of factors - sustained deep learning, connection to actual classroom instruction, and collaboration with peers - that can help educators teach literacy within their content area.
PBS
Pbs Teacher Line: Professional Development for Educators
PBS TeacherLine offers a wide range of professional development courses and resources to help teachers acquire the skills they need. Through this site you can explore courses in your area, facilitated discussions with teachers across the...
SEDL
Classroom Compass: How Can Reserach on the Brain Inform Education?
This website offers references, programs, and implications for teaching focused on brain-based learning.
Other
The Teacher Tap: Professional Development Resources
The Teacher Tap is a free, professional development resource that helps educators address common technology integration questions by providing practical, online resources and activities.
Other
The South Carolina Education Association
This state affiliate of the National Education Association provides information on the organization, its membership and benefits, and legislative initiatives.
Other
California School Boards Association
The organization attempts to promote better school governance by providing information and inservice opportunities to school board members throughout the state. It provides opportunities for developing leadership skills , as well as...
Other
Ase: The Association for Science Education
The Association for Science Education is a professional science association in the United Kingdom whose goal is to improve the teaching of science through communication, debate, and professional learning.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Writing Your Own Activities Ph Et Activity Guidelines
The PhET website at the University of Colorado in Boulder has a large collection of science simulations for teaching chemistry and physics, available in many languages. This page summarizes how to write activities for the simulations,...
Other
Scribd: Contextual Learning Strategies: Bring the Real World Into the Classroom
A presentation focusing on the importance of contextual learning and its relevence within the classroom. Understand real-world concepts and context in order to create a 21st century classroom. Strategies include role-play, simulation,...
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Royal Society of Biology
Dedicated to those who are committed to the study of the biological science field, the Society of Biology presents current research and news about a variety of topics involving the life sciences.
Intel Corporation
Intel Innovation in Education: Teachers Engage
Learn to integrate technology by designing and assessing effective projects with the help of the Intel Corporation. Intel's website offers free professional development globally to all teachers from K-12 to Higher Education. Their online...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: K 5 Geo Source
A collection of content, activity and assessment ideas, printable resources, links, and research-based articles geared toward teachers of Earth science but suitable for all elementary science educators. In addition to offering materials...
Other
School Improvement Network: Strategy of the Week
Each week, a free video is posted here that demonstrates or explains some aspect of teaching, or of how to teach a topic. Access to the complete library of thousands of videos requires a paid subscription, but a 30-day trial is available.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Test Day Tips: Praxis Core Reading Test
On this Khan Academy resource, advice is provided for future teachers who will be taking the Praxis Core Reading Test.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Literacy Coaching in the Middle Grades
From time constraints to a de-emphasis on literacy to a limited research base, coaches in middle schools face challenges that do not exist in the elementary grades.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Intensive, Individualized Interventions for Struggling Readers
Because the cause of adolescents' difficulties in reading vary, interventions may focus on any of the critical elements of knowledge and skill required for the comprehension of complex texts, including fundamental skills such as phonemic...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Integrating Student Progress Monitoring (Spm) Into Your Classroom
Is your school planning to implement student progress monitoring (SPM)? Are you thinking of using it in your classroom? If so, consider a number of factors to make SPM an integral part of classroom activities, rather than a series of...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Five Phases of Professional Development
Too often, teachers say that the professional development they receive provides limited application to their everyday world of teaching and learning. Here The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory shares a five-phase framework...
Other
Phases of First Year Teaching
Anticipation, survival, disillusionment, rejuvenation, and reflection are the phases discussed in this New Teacher Center article.
Leaf Group
E How: How to Write an Academic Conference Paper
This article by Craig Brewer focuses on how to write an abstract and paper for an academic conference.