1. 9 Ways to Assess without using standardized tests

    goodmorningteachera:

    Students don’t like taking them, teachers don’t like giving them.
    I prefer qualitative assessment myself.

    Here are more ways. 

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  2. All Kinds of Awesome - Classroom Organizer

    positivelypersistentteach:

    Classroom Organizer is a free web-based program that allows users to maintain and inventory books in their classroom library. With this amazing tool you can:
    - Import titles from your Booksource order
    - Add your existing titles
    - Import your student roster
    - Enable students to check out and return books
    - Run assessment reports on student and title activity
    If I taught a higher grade level this would my new favorite thing.  I have worked hard to build my classroom library and keeping the books organized and in good conditions is really important to me.
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  3. kbkonnected: Teacher’s TV is back! #spedchat #elemchat #tes #videoresources,  ”TES has brought back all 3,500 Teachers TV programmes which are available for teachers to use for free, though all content is protected by Crown Copyright. Teachers TV was a government funded TV and online video service that operated until April 2011. Teachers TV supported the professional development of anyone working in school, enabling them to widen their skills, develop their practice, and connect with others in the field. Teachers TV supplied professional development videos and resources by going inside classrooms and into schools to help save time with practical tips, lesson ideas and classroom resources.” Excellent video resource for teachers! Added to  Educational Videos for the Classroom You may also like… Kids Tube Life (BBC) School Tube YouTube for Teachers

    kbkonnected:

    Teacher’s TV is back!

    #spedchat #elemchat #tes #videoresources,

     ”TES has brought back all 3,500 Teachers TV programmes which are available for teachers to use for free, though all content is protected by Crown Copyright. Teachers TV was a government funded TV and online video service that operated until April 2011. Teachers TV supported the professional development of anyone working in school, enabling them to widen their skills, develop their practice, and connect with others in the field. Teachers TV supplied professional development videos and resources by going inside classrooms and into schools to help save time with practical tips, lesson ideas and classroom resources.”

    Excellent video resource for teachers!

    Added to  Educational Videos for the Classroom

    You may also like…

    Kids Tube

    Life (BBC)

    School Tube

    YouTube for Teachers

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  4. Do. Make. Think.: Creative platform for kids

    domakethink:

    DIY is a very cool online creative community where children can share their creative projects online in a safe space. The site now has a new explore feature where you can browse different kids projects and give feedback.

    I love this site because it gives children a chance to present…

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  5. tomesawayfromhome:

    Back when I taught 10th grade, I’d use School House Rock to teach the parts of speech. I googled the lyrics and put them on one side of the paper and then I’d make practice sentences for the other side.

    We’d watch the video and sing along, and then I’d play the video again and the kids would annotate the lyrics for the subject of the song (“find all the interjections,” “find all the nouns,” etc). Then they’d flip the paper over and reinforce the fun with the practice on the back of the sheet.

    It worked really well, and solved many of the difficulties that aspect of writing presents to young people who’d never had a grammar lesson in their lives. It also made a good touchstone as the year went on and we worked with poetry too.

    (Source: youtube.com)

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  6. 15 Awesome Interactive Virtual Field Trips

    revolutionizeed:

    Thank you History Tech for these great interactive virtual field trips…I’m going to check them all out! 

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  7. PowerPoint Palooza - Hundreds of PPTs on History/Social Studies

    revolutionizeed:

    Over 220 PowerPoints!  These presentations range in size from a dozen or so slides each to over 145 slides.  Several PPTs contain large sound/music files.  Therefore, they may take a while to load.  Save them, modify them, use them in your classrooms as you wish!

    Great source of already-made PowerPoints.  Wish I had this at the beginning of the year to give me a starting point!  

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  9. Positively Persistent Teach: Daily 5 and Cafe Strategies Resources

    positivelypersistentteach:

    I have been hoping all year that next year I could move up a grade. With that hope in mind, I’ve been pinning on Pinterest Daily 5 and Cafe Strategies ideas. It doesn’t look like I’ll be changing grades, so I thought I would at least share what I’ve found.

    The books are written by Gail Boushey…

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  10. Road To Grammar

    ictmagic:

    See on Scoop.it - ICTmagic

    This site teaches grammar through a good collection of multiple choice quizzes and games. There is also a junior version of the site for younger learners. Both sites also have downloads for teachers.

    http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English


    See on ictmagic.visibli.com
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