Discoveryeducation.com is a great tool for both teachers and students. It is a website that offers teachers tons of resources on planning and managing lessons. Among these tools are also builder tools. This helps the teacher create assignments with diversity of learning to a class as a whole and individual students. There is also a writing prompt and quiz builder. For example, as a teacher preparing to teach the solar system, I was able to click on the age of my student's, subject matter pertaining to the solar system, and explore several tools available to my students. I would be able to download video for the student's to watch to gain better visual understanding. I have access to Blackline Masters, which has creative and age appropriate classroom worksheets for enrichment and learning.
Under the teacher's guide you are able to utilize Unitedstreaming.com for inclass viewing which also offers a program summary, objectives, review questions, activities, and additional resources to take the learning further. A great website tool that will allow the "new teacher" as well as the "experienced teacher" plenty of resources without having to spend a lot of research time preparing for your class lessons.
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "aparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough proplem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
K. Patricia Cross
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