Here are a few websites that have been helpful, encouraging, and practical throughout my journey of becoming an educator. I hope this variety of educational resources offers some help to you as well.
1. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/
This website is an excellent resource for teachers to get worksheets and creative lesson plan ideas. The worksheets are free of charge and are arranged into categories suitable for certain subjects and age groups, which makes it simple for an educator to find a worksheet related to the certain material that needs to be taught. You must create a “log in” for this website, but it is free and will be worth your while.
2. http://www.crayola.com/for-educators.aspx
This is a website created by Crayola and is directed at educators to use for creating unique classroom projects for their students. On the website there is a tab called “Creative Activities” where teachers can go and download worksheets with instructions on how to teach them creatively, and can also read articles on how to design creative and interactive websites.
3. http://exchange.smarttech.com/#tab=0
This website is extremely helpful for teachers seeking to find different Smart Board interactive presentations and how to use Smart Board technology. The website covers the basics of Smart Board technology, all the way to allowing teachers create their own unique activities. This could be difficult for teachers who do not necessarily use technology regularly, but this website is very user friendly.
4. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
This website is beneficial for creating creative curriculum because it provides helpful handouts, printouts, sample pages, and activities for teachers to use in the classroom. The resources are free and cover a wide variety of topics and material. The website is not necessarily the best for finding resources related to traditional subjects or certain grade levels, but it provides great material for teachers to use.
This website is helpful for all teachers as it provides teachers with an abundance of necessary resources such as free printouts, worksheets, graphic organizers, games, and sample lesson plans. I found it very interesting that the website has an entire section dedicated to “monthly themes” and games and activities that correspond with the months to help students learn.
6. atozteacherstuff.com
This website is similar to the other teacher resource websites in the sense that it provides a variety of teaching resources and materials. One thing that differentiates this website from the others in my opinion is that it offers a forum for teachers to go back and forth and deliberate on educational matters. I also appreciate how the sight has a Worksheet Maker where teachers can create a worksheet perfect for their lesson plan.
7. https://kahoot.it/#/
This is an extremely interactive website that allows teachers to take polls, create review games, and assessments quickly and efficiently. The students can use their phones or laptops to sign into the activity that their teacher created and then learn in a new and interactive manner. This is an excellent resource for teachers to use differentiation in the classroom.
8. http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/daily-starter/teacher
This is a fantastic resource for elementary ages students as it provides multiple ways to create an effective piece of “morning work” in the classroom. The website provides different resources for teachers to give students to work on at the beginning of a school day; the resources are an appropriate length and cover important pieces of information to get the students thinking.
9. www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/
This website is helpful for teachers looking for books that are applicable to the material they are teaching in class. I believe this website would apply to teachers of younger students as you can search for books that go along with lesson plans and encourage student learning.
This website is beneficial to all teachers as it stands for the National Education Association. The website offers different ways for teachers to get involved or informed on major topics or issues going on in the education community. It also provides the history and mission of the association and even allows for site users to join the NEA, which is beneficial for educators.
This website is a type of technology that can be used for teachers to create interactive informational presentations for students to learn in a unique and engaging way. The website allows teachers to use complete creativity and freedom to design and implement whatever material and instruction into a presentation to make it the most suitable for student learning.
12. teachersnetwork.org
This website is beneficial in the sense that it provides free materials for teachers to use. This site is unique in the sense that it provides instructions for creating effective report card comments, curriculum units, and “how to” articles concerning several different teaching areas.
13. http://www.pbslearningmedia.org
This is an extremely helpful websites for teachers to use when trying to implement technology or visual aspects to a lesson. The website breaks down different subjects and grade levels and relates interactive videos with the certain categories which is helpful for teachers trying to make a lesson more visual and applicable for students.
14. http://www.educationworld.com
This website can be very helpful to teachers who are seeking some teacher essentials, ways to integrate technology into the classroom, and some sample lesson plans. The website primarily offers helpful resources and materials for teachers, but also provides insight through a blog where fellow teachers can comment and chat about educational topics.
15. http://www.discoveryeducation.com.teachers
This website breaks down students into their certain grade levels and ages and provides appropriate materials for the particular category. The games, puzzles, lesson plans, and interactive actives allow the students to engage with the content on a deeper level.
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