Teacher
Resource
One of the obvious boons of the worldwide web is the facility of
accessing quality teacher resource materials. 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.
As an instructor of English and as an online course developer, I have
found many valuable teacher resources for linguistic, literary, and
rhetorical disciplines in particular and for education and teaching in
general. Some of these I would like to share with you, maybe saving you
the time I spent collecting online teacher resource materials, or maybe
just introducing you to a site, a database, or a teaching strategy or
idea that you had yet to discover, but hopefully not creating a
redundancy—by listing a site you know well.
ONLINE TEACHER COMMUNITIES
Pro-teacher Community (K-3; 4-8; Math, Science, & Technology;
Gifted Students
http://www.proteacher.net/
Teachers.net (Lesson exchange, live chat, job and classifieds boards,
and more…)
http://www.teachers.net/
Tolerance.org (Activities, Kits and Handbooks, Web Exclusives, Grants,
and more…for teaching tolerance.)
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/getpublished.jsp
ONLINE TEACHER DATABASES
Teacher Oz’s Kingdom of History (Tracey Osborn’s
WWII database)
http://www.teacheroz.com/
Web English Teacher (Carla Beard’s exhaustive
site—includes multiple and various
subcategories—including Shakespeare, Media and Literacy,
Poetry, Study Guides, and much, much more….)
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/index.html
ESL Resources at OWL (Purdue University’s Online Writing
Lab—handouts, resources, and exercises)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/index.html
Just for Teachers (Sheboygan Falls teacher Dawn Hogue offers advice,
syllabi, book lists, and links for AP English teachers.)
http://www.sheboyganfalls.k12.wi.us/staff/dehogue/AP/teachers/main.htm
ReadWriteThink (Lesson Plans, Web Resources, Student Materials, and
Standards)
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/
TeachersFirst.com (Classroom, professional, and site resources for k-12
teachers.)
http://www.teachersfirst.com/
COLLECTIONS/LESSONS/HANDOUTS (PRINTABLE)
Awesome Library: K-12 Lesson Plans (Dr. R. Jerry Adams’
multiple disciplines collection)
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/lesson.html
Helpful Handouts for Students and Teachers (Erica Cassel’s
writing, reading, and writing about reading materials)
http://www.mrscassel.com/helpful_handouts.htm
Lesson Plans at Teachnet.com (General and Specific Lesson Plans for
Multiple Disciplines)
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/index.html
Microsoft Education Lesson Plans
http://www.microsoft.com/education/LessonPlans.mspx
S.C.O.R.E. Language Arts CyberGuides (Comprehensive, interactive lesson
plan units for k-12.)
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Teachers.net Lesson Bank (lesson exchange for k-12, advanced, senior,
and other level and range teachers)
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
Using English.com ESL Teacher Handouts, Grammar Worksheets, and
Printables
http://www.usingenglish.com/handouts/
Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature (by the University of Oxford)
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/
There are, of course hundreds more wonderful sites for teacher
resources. I have yet to explore and employ them. I
have much ground to cover, but in the efforts and explorations, I hope
to see you online one day, maybe in one of the community chat rooms.
We learn by teaching, and we teach by learning—so say the
wise ones. May all your lessons, then, be wonderful.
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