Showing posts with label English teachers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English teachers. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

41 Great Blogs to Follow By Subject Area

There are hundreds of thousands of education blogs out there on the web.  If you are not following anyone on Twitter in your subject area, how do you get your information? Are you registered on a wiki? Did you join any social networks like NING? Maybe some of you are even asking, "what's a wiki?" Here's a great place to start: read blogs in your area of study. Subscribe to them in a reader (RSS= really simple syndication) or via e-mail, whatever you find easier. This information should be available on the blog. Want to add any blogs to this list? Feel free to post a comment.

ART
The Teaching Palette

EARLY CHILDHOOD
A Place Called Kindergarten
-teacher Jonelle Bell
Preschool Daze
- preschool teacher and director Kristen Neufeld Epp
Teacher Tom

EDUCATION POLICY
Change Agency
- Stephanie Sandifer blogs about education 

Practical Theory- Chris Lehman, principal of the Science Leadership Academy
Schools Matter-explores issues in public education policy

ENGLISH
The Scholastic Scribe- journalism and AP English teacher
SpeechTechie- interactive technologies you can use in language lessons and interventions.

ESL
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day- a treasure-trove of sites from this ESL/ELL teacher
Teacher Reboot Camp- Shelley Terrell's blog covers language education, training (she gives webinars) and something for every teacher

GUIDANCE COUNSELORS

HISTORY

MATH 
The Exponential Curve- written by math teacher , this blog seeks to "generate and share ideas for teaching high school math concepts to students whose skills are below grade level".
I Speak Math- shows how to integrate technology and mathematics; written by Julie Reulbach
Math in the Middle - written by a middle school algebra teacher
Math Teacher Mambo- Ms. Cookie posts ideas for the classroom, including lesson plans
The Number Warrior-written by Algebra I, College Algebra, and Pre-Calculus teacher Jason Dryer

SCIENCE
Action-Reaction- physics teacher Frank Noschese
Always Formative- middle school science teacher Jason Buell
Quantum Progress- 9th grade physics teacher's award-winning blog
Teaching Chemistry: Building a 21st Century Chemistry Classroom - high school chemistry teacher Ellena Bethea

TEACHER-LIBRARIANS
AASL Blog- The American Association of School Librarians
Neverending Search- Joyce Valenza's blog for School Library Journal

TECHNOLOGY  INTEGRATION
Free Technology For Teachers - Richard Byrne's wonderful blog with technology resources
Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch- Kathy's resources can also be found on Discovery Education's
NCS-Tech- K-8 Ed-Tech resources
Thuman Resources- Lisa Thuman's "21st Century ideas to help facilitate good teaching and learning."

WORLD LANGUAGES
Blog Italiano- Italian
eTools for Language Teachers- written by a French teacher from Canada
Los Bloguitos- Spanish
Spanish Plans- lessons and resources for Spanish teachers




Saturday, July 16, 2011

44 Professional Development Opportunities


Need professional development credits? Seems that today with all the budget cuts, the only way to get a salary increase is to move across guide as well as up a step. Some will give you graduate credit and some are actually FREE! At any rate, this list should give you more than enough resources to accomplish that task.

21st Century Schools
- short list of online courses


360 Education Solutions- online professional development; huge listing links to many universities

Canter -development online; graduate credit


Capella University -online coursework


Colorado State University- online graduate courses

Education Week Teacher PD Sourcebook- four main areas include Practice & Pedagogy, (i.e. differentiated instruction) Content Area, (i.e. computer/technology) Leadership. (administration) and Specific Populations. (i.e. special education) They have 730 companies listed here.


Education Week Teacher PD Directory- extensive listing of professional development opportunities

Free Online Graduate Courses!!!- sponsored by the Annenberg Project

The Heritage Institute -continuing education for K-12 teachers


K12 Teacher Staff Development- small course listing


Knowledge Delivery Systems- list of 8 colleges offering online courses

Learning Port- over 700 resources from various organizations, including the Department of Education, NEA and Edutopia. Many are free; all list the format, duration, cost, access, certificate, (if available) video, assessment, 508 compliancy and when the course was created.

Loyola Marymount Enhancement Courses- graduate credit; one of the least expensive per credit


National Council of Teachers of English- on-demand webinars

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Tapped In -collaborative activities, school chat sessions


Teacher-Courses.com

Teacher Education Institute- mainly 3 credit graduate courses

Teacher Online Education- site created by teachers

Teacher's Learning Center- 1, 2, & 3 credit courses; accredited nation-wide

The Teacher Tap -free professional development resources

University of Phoenix Online - online courses; graduate credit

University of Wisconsin-Stout- online courses; graduate credit


Virtual Education- choose from a list of courses

WePapers- online study group, including free lecture notes and presentations


Wide World- developed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

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