Teacher Resources



YouTube EDU is a YouTube channel with hundreds of thousands of educational videos!  It contains videos for every subject (math, science, social studies, English, language) and for every grade level.  YouTube Teacher is also a YouTube channel with hundreds of thousands of educational videos, however, these also include videos of how to incorporate different videos in your lessons.  This channel has partnered with many other organizations like Smithsonian, TED, Steve Spangler Science, and Numberphile.  It has even begun a pilot program that works with schools to redirect all YouTube links to educational content on YouTube EDU.  It continues to add videos daily!
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PBS Learning Media is a wonderful tool that provides teachers with more than 100,000 digital learning objects such as videos, images, audio, games, and interactive sites.  It covers all subjects throughout all the grade levels.  This huge resource makes creating lesson plans significantly easier!  Access is free and most content is downloadable so can be accessed offline.  The accompanying site is the Student Version.  Students also have access to more than 100,000 different media, including videos, images, and games for every subject and grade level.  The difference is that the student version is much more appealing to students.  As well there is a feature where teachers can create a classroom and students can log onto the PBS site where they can work on assignments or projects created through the website.  Overall, it’s a fantastic tool for both teachers and students!
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OverDrive is a website and app that allows you to browse, checkout, and download free eBooks and digital audiobooks – all you need is a library card (which is free)!  To use this resource, the user must create a free account and hook it up with their library card.  Once it is hooked up, it works the same as if you were to borrow a tangible item from the library.  The wonderful thing about this resource is that it can be used on any electronic device – you can use it on a website on your computer or download the app for mobile devices!  As well, once an item has been downloaded after borrowing/check out, you no longer need access to the internet to use the material – it is available anywhere/everywhere offline!  It’s such a cool resource that really promotes the exploration of books for literacy as well as for other areas of education!
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Image result for marian smallMarian Small - I couldn’t do this task and not talk about Marian Small (I love her).  Marian Small is an author and international professional development consultant for improved mathematics education and is one of the leading speakers on Canadian mathematics education.  She is also an author of a number of books regarding teaching mathematics.  Small focuses on making math meaningful for students by getting them involved in their learning.  I could go on and on about how wonderful she is but no one wants to hear me!  To me, Marian Small is what I aspire to be as a math teacher.  She breaks math down into ways that are so straight forward and easy to understand for any learner.  She also tends to say very thought-provoking things that get you to think about why you do the things you do as a teacher.  If looking for help with teaching math or just overall teaching philosophy there are a number of videos, interviews, and books about her beliefs that are extremely inspiring.  I recommend looking into her if you haven’t heard of her before!

Frank W. BakerFrank Baker is a media literacy education consultant from South Carolina, USA.  His focus is to teach students how to be smart viewers of the media.  His twitter supplies followers with the latest news and tips and tools to help teachers teach media literacy in classrooms.  I think that he is extremely inspiring because this is such a prevalent topic in today’s society - everything is online and today’s students are consumed by the media.  As teachers, it’s part of our job to educate students on the dangers of the media and teach them how to identify bias or lies in the news.  This is especially true for the junior level.  Many students nowadays are given access to technology at such a young age, but were never quite taught the dangers of it.  Baker continues to provide wonderful resources that help teachers address this pressing topic!

Kim Pruitt is a 5th grade ELA teacher at a Presbyterian day school where she implements technology in a blended learning environment.  She has multiple online resources for fellow teachers to access.  The first is her digital learning website GrammarCloud.  Here you can find a number of videos that teach students how to use correct grammar and write different types of material.  She also has a blog on this site where she talks about why she uses the strategies she does as well as providing teachers with different tools to use project-based learning and design-thinking in the classroom.  Pruitt also has a blog run by her students where they update it with what they are currently learning.  Lastly she has a twitter page where she frequently shares and retweets a number of cool items or strategies that can be used in the classroom.  She is definitely inspiring because not only does she blog for herself, but she allows her classroom to have their own blog!  If that’s not incorporating media in the classroom, I don’t know what is.  I think managing a blog at a junior level would be a great way to teach students about media literacy and get them involved in their learning! As well, the things that she blogs about and shares on twitter are items that I can definitely see myself using in the future so she is definitely someone to follow!

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