Every now and then a teacher need help. The follow articles and websites are resources I have collected to help me have better Instructional methods.
Keys to Successful Groupwork- Culture, Structure, Nurture
Let em fight it out- Arguing in my constructivist classroom
BrainPOP!: https://www.brainpop.com/
Community Resources
Getting students out into the community and realizing that they can make a difference in their own community is very important. It can have a profound affect on students. These resources are all about planning and executing a successful field trip.
This website is about planning a successful and educational field trip.
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/1824
This is one person’s strategies for making a field trip a success, but meaningful experience for all students.
http://eprogressiveportfolio.blogspot.com/2012/06/field-trip-strategy.html
This website has teaching strategies for taking field trips and helping the students make meaning out of their location.
http://www.learner.org/workshops/tml/workshop6/teaching3.html
This website has strategies for helping a field trip go smoothly and then connecting back to the field trip later.
http://blogs.scholastic.com/special_ed/2009/04/five-tips-for-successful-field-trips.html
This website is about getting a guest speaker in the classroom and involving students in the process.
http://www.glencoe.com/ps/teachingtoday/weeklytips.phtml/42
Lesson Plans
This website is a branch of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. It has nothing but math classroom resources.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
This is a website with math lessons Pre-K through high school. It is an educational game/software company.
http://www.jumpstart.com/teachers/lesson-plans/math-lesson-plans
This is Discovery Education’s math lesson plan website.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/math.html
This website has math activities, worksheets, projects to connect multiple subjects, slideshows. It has lesson resources.
https://www.teachervision.com/teacher-resources/8592.html
This is National Council of Teachers of Mathematics lessons and resources website.
http://www.nctm.org/resources/
Best Practices
This pdf gives comparisons on different strategies for best practices in teaching mathematics.
http://northschuylkill.net/PDF/BestPractices/Recommendations%20on%20Teaching%20Math.pdf
This is a list of best practices for mathematics.
http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/Courses/BestPracticesTeaching.pdf
This is one teacher using her experiences to create a list of best practices for math and how they were implemented in her classroom.
This website talks about standard based math instruction, and includes bits about best practice.
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/subject/standards_math.phtml
This pdf is a best practice guide for different forms of classroom instruction.
http://www.palmbeachschools.org/qa/documents/ElementsofEffectiveMathematicsInstruction.pdf
This article is about the top 10 teaching strategies for teaching middle school math that a teacher compiled.
http://www.imagineeducation.org/downloads/consulting.pdf