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| Must-Have Skills for the 21st Century! |
| 21st Century Learning Matters! (See why!) |
| America, watch & learn! The UK will have Foreign Language in ALL elementary schools BY 2010 |
| 21st Century Learning - K12 |
| PBS, Learning Matters presents: The Stimulus Gap: Hartford Public High School |
LINKS FOR US TEACHERS Top 100 Teacher Sites You will be astonished at the wealth of FREE stuff you can get on this site!! Customizable worksheets, songs, puzzles, rubrics, tutorials, crafts and project ideas, ...and a whole lot more. See for yourself! SITES FOR TEACHERS Hundreds of educational websites rated by popularity. The valuable resources seem endless. These include free educational clip-arts, worksheets, lesson plans, tips & ideas, etc. Simply fantastic! TOGETHER WE TEACH A great site where you can find teachers collective wisdom on teaching & learning, plus a great number of educational and non-educational, but yet very practical resources. Explore! TEACH-NOLOGY Simply Amazing! All FREE: more than 28000 lesson plans, 7500 printable worksheets, 250000 reviewed sites, ready-to-use rubrics, games & downloads, webquests, teaching tips, and much more! So, just click to simplify your day! THE TEACHER'S CORNER Free, excellent teacher resources, lesson plans, printable worksheets, ...and a whole lot more! SONGS FOR TEACHING All teachers should be singing with their students on a regular basis, in order to increase their students' motivation and enhance their learning! TEACH WITH MUSIC ...and you really should! Start today! Recent Brain Research shows that Music & language are processed in the same areas of the brain. Hmm! Well? JAM STUDIO Wow! Very simple to use, and very useful!! ... a complete online music creation & recording studio for music amateurs and veterans alike. Create your songs/music and burn them onto a CD. Be creative! Enhance your teaching with music! LANGUAGE EXPRESS ...visual language learning on-the-go, for Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese THE GLOBAL LANGUAGE MONITOR Up to date essays and articles on various linguistic topics, and an algorithmic analysis of political language use in the United States. Foreign Language Lesson Plans & Resources The name says it all! Literally, HUNDREDS of resources for us foreign language teachers, across all domains and proficiency levels; mostly for Spanish & French, but still very useful for teachers of other languages. Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes These web activities are organized by proficiency level, and are available for numerous languages. Click to see if the language you teach is included. FILAMENTALITY 2.0 A place for teachers to create and add their filament to the web of learning. It's an online tool to help teachers create internet activities for their students. On site tutorials are available. E. L. EASTON FREE materials for Teaching & Learning, for multiple languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Polish, Chinese and Albanian. Video Conferencing for Learning Instructional applications and resources to help you find and collaborate with other video-conferencing teachers, librarians, and content providers. You should try it! It's technology that supports & enhances learning! UNILANG.ORG A free online language community in which to learn, discuss, exchange & practice several languages, and be united with language lovers from all over the world in an online language community. Many free language learning resources are also available here. LANGUAGE LIZARD Inspiring kids through language! A great resource for materials for early childhood language learning. Also, a great site to recommend to parents (advocacy)! |
| TEACHER RESOURCES |
| Are you a "21st century compatible" teacher? Are you preparing your students for the demands of the 21st century? Look at these videos on this matter, and find out. |
| MUSIC for learning in the classroom |
| MAGIC for learning in the classroom |
| Creative, out-of-the-box ways to teach, increase students' intrinsic motivation and enhance learning for students in your classroom. Check them out and try them this week. |
| to support and enhance what we already do in our classrooms, with and for our students. |
| If you know of any other teacher-useful website(s) not yet included here, please share it (them) with me and with others by submitting it here. ...and share this website (www.celebratelanguages.com) with your colleagues! They'll thank you, as I do! |
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| Free Online Educational Videos www.brainpop.com http://dep.disney.go.com/ www.espacefrancophone.org/home.html |
| Tech-TOOLS for you & your classroom! |
| WEB-TECH to simplify & organize your life! |
| ARE YOU RELIGIOUS? Tech for the SOUL! |
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| The sites here below are FANTASTIC RESOURCE SITES for ALL teachers. The endless number of FREE materials, videos (both instructional & motivational) is impressive! <<<<< Simply click on the icons below. Enjoy! >>>>> |
| www.teachers.tv is one of my favorites! Check out the video section, as well as the "top 10" section. Use the "search" field to find whatever you are looking for. |
| TRE has amazing materials & activities created by teachers. All resources are checked by subject specialists to ensure the highest possible quality. |
| Based in the USA, this site is IMPRESSIVE!!! One of my favorites! A MUST SEE & USE web resource for teachers! ...and it's all FREE! |
| Excellent resource for teachers to make their lives easier. Hundreds of FREE materials & activities to download, job postings, and much more! Go see! |
| Foreign Language Internet Resources for Teachers - an AMAZING collection of very useful links for various languages, both for learners and teachers alike. Go see! |
| Here's a HUGE collection of very essential Internet resources, lesson plans, projects, activities, & a whole lot more, put together by FL teachers. |
| Teacher, I'm sure you, like most other teachers, are concerned about texting or messaging occurring in your classroom while you are teaching. Here is an article of interest to you, just recently published in the USA TODAY on the very subject, severity and disruption of student TEXTING IN THE CLASSROOM. |
| An ESSENTIAL article every teacher, parent, politician and community leader ought to read, now, today, if we truly want to attempt to better understand, and narrow the achievement GAP. |
| PLEASE SHARE these articles with others! |
| More noteworthy articles of interest to teachers Please share these articles with others! |
| ADDITIONAL USEFUL RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS |
| ATTENTION TEACHERS: Visit these EXCELLENT sites below |
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