Teacher - Classroom

Teaching Content Areas
The strategies in this section suggest ways in which you can provide your ELLs with additional support in learning content areas such as math, science, social studies, and language arts.
http://colorincolorado.org/educators/content

Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence…..Teaching and Learning Resources from Federal Agencies
http://www.free.ed.gov/index.cfm

NCCTQ Connection - The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (NCCTQ) is dedicated to providing current strategies and research-based practice and policy to assist teacher preparation programs as they evolve to meet the needs of new teachers. Realizing a need to support teachers of general education who are preparing to teach students with disabilities as well as special education teachers who co-teach in general education classrooms, NCCTQ has developed the NCCTQ Connection. This new online resource is designed to support educators through content-rich resources and an online discussion forum.
http://www.ncctq.org/connection/

The Academic Word List - the Academic Word List was developed by Averil Coxhead as her MA thesis at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The list contains 570 word families which were selected according to principles outlined below. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English. The AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers as part of a program preparing learners for higher education level study or used by students working alone to learn the words most needed to study at higher education institutions. The Academic Word List replaces the University Word List.
http://language.massey.ac.nz/staff/awl/awlinfo.shtml

Sites for Teachers – Hundreds of educational websites rated by popularity. Sites are available for reading, mathematics, science, social studies and more and contain lesson plans, worksheets, activities and clip art.
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/

Welcome to HotChalk's™ newly redesigned LessonPlansPage.com! - We now have over 3,000 free lesson plans! To find lesson plans that match your criteria, begin by selecting a subject below, or search for specific topics. Be sure to visit our parent site, HotChalk.com and sign up for our free online teacher tools. Once inside, you'll find thousands of additional free teaching resources!
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/

Great Stuff for Teachers from TeacherVision – TeacherVision is dedicated to helping teachers save time. Find 15,000+ pages of classroom-ready lesson plans, printables, and resources.
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/?wtlAC=2_GS_Daily_Day15,email-gs_259

What do Teachers Need to Know and Do to help students meet AYP?
Standards-based reform is having a huge impact on expectations for teachers. The new focus is on evidence of student learning. Teachers must attend to how and how well students demonstrate proficiency on state defined content standards and indicators. Learn how to understand targets, align instruction and assessment, assess and interpret performance, monitor student progress, and inform your instruction using monitoring data.
http://meetayp.com/schools/teachers.html

Using Mnemonic Instruction to Facilitate Access to the General Education Curriculum
Mnemonic instruction is an instructional strategy commonly used with students who have disabilities as well as with their non-disabled peers. It is designed to improve memory of key information.
http://www.ldonline.org/article/15577

Mnemonic instruction has been recommended as a practice with solid research evidence of effectiveness for individuals with learning disabilities by the Council for Exceptional Children-the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) and the Division for Research (DR). To learn more, please read Current Practice Alert: Mnemonic instruction at: http://www.dldcec.org/ld_resources/alerts/5.htm

Teachnology – this is a website that provides free access to 27,000 lesson plans (K-12), printable worksheets, rubrics, 256,000 reviewed sites and webquests. You can also sign up for a free newsletter for teaching tips.
http://www.teach-nology.com/

The Teacher’s Guide from Teacher Created Resources – thousands of lesson plans categorized and ready to go. There are lesson plans for science, math, social studies, language arts and art. There are also lesson plans by month of the year. There are
K-12 lesson plans
http://www.theteachersguide.com/lessonplans.html

Scientifically Based Research
The interventions and tools presented while meeting certain requirements are to be used within the context of professional judgement, professional decision-making, and ongoing monitoring. They are an adjunct to professional practice and should be used in combination with a rigorous analysis of alternative strategies and, in the case of intervention, ongoing progress monitoring.
http://www.gosbr.net/

Intervention Central
Offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth. The site was created by Jim Wright, a school psychologist and school administrator from Central New York.
Visit to check out newly posted academic and behavioral intervention strategies, download publications on effective teaching practices, and use tools that streamline classroom assessment and intervention.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/

Center for Teaching Quality - The Center for Teaching Quality improves student learning through developing teacher leadership, conducting practical research and engaging various communities. Their work is focused on teacher leadership, teacher working conditions, NCLB Highly Qualified Teacher Reauthorization, related teacher quality issues, and publications and presentations.
http://www.teachingquality.org/

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development: A Place for Teachers
http://www.eed.state.ak.us/Educators.html

Improving Access to the General Curriculum for Students with Disabilities Through Collaborative Teaching - For Teachers
This professional development module explores the components of the definition of co-teaching, how co-teaching looks in the classroom, scheduling and planning issues, and the challenge of supervising and evaluating a co-teaching team.
This version is the Co-Teaching Module for Teachers.
http://www.k8accesscenter.org/training_resources/Co-TeachingModule.asp