A Bit For Teachers
IRIS Modules are the bomb! See the about page here: https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/about/who-we-are/
From the page:
“the IRIS Center develops and disseminates free, engaging online resources about evidence-based instructional and behavioral practices to support the education of all students, particularly struggling learners and those with disabilities.”
Find resources about accommodations, classroom management, and more: https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/resources/iris-resource-locator/
Here are some pages I and other teachers have found useful. See the sidebar for info and resources on Bilingual Education.
GENERAL
- Free for a limited time: The Hybrid Teacher Survival Guide (please donate if you can to help this teacher)
- Teacher Resources
- Rubi-Star: A free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics
- Design the layout of your classroom
- Video Production for students
- TED Talks for Kids
- 12 Must-Watch Ted Talks for Teachers
- High School Teacher’s Daily Checklist
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
- Things you didn’t know you can do with Google Classroom – presented by Deb Norton
- Substitute Information Sheet
- Assign-A-Day is a free tool designed to enhance teacher and student communication through an online teacher-managed calendar.
- Classroom Management tips with video
- Teaching Listening Skills
- How to Set up a Simple, Effective Classroom Management Plan
DISTANCE LEARNING
- Click here for visual icons and other visual helps for distance learning
- Virtual Learning Kids Clipart – for demonstrating the dos and dont’s of Distance Learning
- Distance Learning: Signal Cards – Free
- 50 Back-to-school activities for remote learning classrooms
- Virtual Classroom Rules materials (free pdf)
LESSON PLANS
- Lesson Plan Index – Multiple Subject
- Lesson Plan Library: Language Arts
- Math Lesson Plans
- Lesson Plan Library: Science
- Science Lesson Plans
MATH
- Houses and Cars and Loans
- What’s all this money madness?
- Stock Market for Educators
- Lesson: Finding the Mean using hands-on activities
SCIENCE
- Science Project Checklist
- Junior High Science Ideas Pinterest Board
- The Inner Life of a Cell (Video)
- Coral Reefs (Video)
- Science-themed novels
- Friction and Fly Balls
- Mystery Science
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL)
When elementary students compare the relative importance of a range of problems, they learn to take charge of their reactions.
An opening and closing exercise where every student contributes is a way to ensure that they all feel seen and heard in the classroom.
SPECIAL EDUCATION
- 10 Items Special Educators should have in their classrooms
- Facilitating Individualized Interventions to address challenge behavior (PDF)
From the page:
“This guide is designed to assist the mental health consultant in guiding teachers, teams, and families in developing and implementing an individualized plan of support that results in a reduction of challenging behavior and the promotion of communication and social skills.” Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development - IEP Accommodations and Modifications Quicksheet A teacher on Pinterest wrote that she “use[s] this at the beginning of each year to list all students with IEPs and their classroom accommodations/modifications. At a glance, [she] can see what modifications to use on test day, etc. [She] also type[s] one up for each teacher that has [her] students, so they can use it as well.”Free download, but you need to join the site first.
WRITING AND LANGUAGE ARTS
- Roy’s Writing Tools
- Classroom Strategies
- Report Organizer for students
- Free Literacy Printables
- VOWELS: Short & Long Poetry
- Language Arts: Lesson Plans, Games, & Activities
- Language Arts: Teaching Point of View
- Subject-Verb Agreement powerpoint
- BBC Learning English| Grammar Challenge (good for ESL learning)