Resources for Teachers
Social Emotional Learning
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL). https://casel.org/ The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) has lesson plans and games by grade level and topic. Check the "interactives" box to select games. https://illuminations.nctm.org/Search.aspx?view=search&type=ac&st=n_a_g_m_d&gr=Pre-K-2_3-5 Problem Solving websites help students learn strategies to solve multi-step word problems. http://teacher.scholastic.com/maven/ http://www.figurethis.org https://bedtimemath.org/ Math is Fun has concise background information
on concepts, games, and interactive lessons for students. The site has a graphing tool that converts bar graphs into charts, line, and circle graphs, and shows percentages. (Watch out for ads; the main content is free.) http://www.mathsisfun.com/index.htm http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/data-graph.php Children's Authors
Here are a few authors' websites that are noteworthy. Some have children's activities and videos. Jerry Pinkney books: https://www.nrm.org/2009/12/jerry-pinkney-imaginings-an-artists-exploration-of-images-and-words/ Grace Lin books: https://gracelin.com/ Beverly Cleary books: http://www.beverlycleary.com/ Blue Balliett books: https://www.blueballiettbooks.com/ Chris Van Allsburg books: https://chris-van-allsburg.harpercollins.com/videos |
Read/Write/Think from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and The International Reading Association has elementary lessons and student interactive games by grade level. https://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources Smithsonian Education helps educators, families, and students (choose one) research topics. https://learninglab.si.edu/ Information on many topics from National Geographic for Kids: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ Information on animals from the San Diego Zoo: http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/ Select age-level appropriate media for problems and ideas across subject areas on PBS Kids http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/_ http://pbskids.org/video/ (click cc for closed captions) Here are some resources for Gifted Education enrichment classes for children, teacher licensing endorsements, degrees, articles, research, workshops, and professional development:
Northwestern University Center for Talent Development for Students and Teachers https://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/ Northeastern Illinois University, Gifted Education Courses https://catalog.neiu.edu/courses/gift/ Gifted Endorsement and Master's Program, Drake University (online) https://www.drake.edu/soe/endorsements/gifted/ The Illinois Association for Gifted Children (IAGC) http://www.iagcgifted.org/ The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) http://www.nagc.org/ |
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