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BOOKS
The
Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape
of a Teacher’s Life
By Parker J. Palmer
This beautifully written book is a balm to the teacher’s
soul. Palmer maintains good teaching comes from
the identity and the integrity of the teacher. He
believes that the act of teaching requires that
one turns his/her inquiring mind inward—developing
a deeper understanding of what it means to fulfill
the spiritual calling of teaching. Reading this
book will help you reaffirm why you’re doing
what you’re doing!
WEB
SITES
Florida
TechNet is an excellent resource: www.floridatechnet.org
PBS
TeacherSource http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
This PBS site has over 4,000 free lesson plans
and activities for all subject areas—a good
resource for diploma teachers (as well as all
levels of adult education.)
The
Global Schoolhouse http://globalschoolnet.org
This is an amazing site I discovered last summer.
It connects you to online field trips, global
expeditions, student projects, and more, all with
a goal of helping students learn about the world
and its people. You can take a trek across Africa,
visit Antarctica, journey around Australia, or
sail around the world, among other trips.
Web
Quest http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
Web
quests are “an inquiry-oriented activity
in which most or all of the information used by
learners is drawn from the Web. Web Quests are
designed to use learners’ time well, to
focus on using information rather than looking
for it, and to support learners’ thinking
at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
Click on “portals” and then click
on “top” in the left hand margin for
a table of web quest topics. There is an entire
section devoted to web quests involving life skills
and careers, and these all do a wonderful job
bringing the NH standards to students.
www.edhelper.com
In a pinch, this website could save the day, or
at least part of a class. Although only part of
this site is free, it may be worth the price of
a subscription to have access to the whole thing.
If you have students who want more homework, fly
through material, have used every book in your
classroom (but still need more practice) this
website delivers. It can generate endless math
practice sheets, and deliver vocabulary lessons
from first grade to SAT prep level. It has sections
dealing with reading comprehension practice exercises,
phonics, science, geography and language arts.
It will even generate word searches from your
own vocabulary lists. If your classroom is a little
short on materials, this site can really stretch
your book budget and provide your students with
the practice they want.
