Teacher Lesson Plans
I worked on three distance learning courses last year, courses that required the usual (meeting standards, being fresh and engaging, being comprehensive and effective, etc.) and courses that lent themselves to multiple teacher lesson plans and versions (making for 154 unique but related pages of material). The most challenging part was that which went beyond my creativity and uniqueness: I had to find those teacher lesson plans that comply, that appeal, that engage, and that connect—for students of diverse ethnicities, learning abilities, learning disabilities, and diverse mindsets.
I had a blast spending hundreds of hours coming up with activities, experiments and tasks by searching online. What I found were some of the most involved, informational, and inclusive teacher lesson plans. I wish to share some here with you. Or, I wish to at least give you examples of some of the best teacher lesson plans leads.
For example, the general teacher lesson plans databases offer course materials for a number of disciplines—from English/Language Arts/Writing links to Math, Science, History, Social Studies, and more. These teacher lesson plans are user-friendly for the internet, are interactive, explorative, and informative on a number of levels and for the largest common denominator—our students. These massive databases, often set up as teacher exchanges, include such wonderful sites as Teachers.net (lesson exchange, live chat, job and classifieds boards, and more); Tolerance.org (activities, kits and handbooks, web exclusives, grants, and more…for teaching tolerance); Pro-teacher Community (teacher lesson plans and guides for teachers of K-3; 4-8; Math, Science, & Technology; and Gifted Students); Tracey Osborn’s WWII teacher lesson plans and student interactivity guides and materials database, Teacher Oz’s Kingdom of History; Just for Teachers (Sheboygan Falls’ teacher Dawn Hogue offers advice, syllabi, book lists, and links for AP English teachers); ReadWriteThink (Lesson Plans, Web Resources, Student Materials, and Standards); and TeachersFirst.com (offering classroom, professional, and site resources for k-12 teachers).
A couple of other premier sites offering teacher lesson plans by way of downloadable handouts include Awesome Library (K-12 Lesson Plans offered by Dr. R. Jerry Adams in his multiple disciplines collection); Helpful Handouts for Students and Teachers (offered by the brilliant and generous Erica Cassel for teacher lesson plans that use writing, reading, and writing about reading materials handouts) and
Teachers.net Lesson Bank (where not only handouts but interactive teacher lesson plans are traded for teaching k-12, advanced, senior, and other levels and ranges).
So many more wonderful, comprehensive, and effective teacher lesson plans exist on the web. I am sure I am being remiss by leaving out some of the best, such as Using English.com’s ESL Teacher Handouts, Grammar Worksheets, and Printables, or the particulars of the Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature [by the University of Oxford] or the Dartmouth Writing Center lessons for both students and new teachers. But hopefully, what links I offer or what sites I suggest are those I and my learners benefited from greatly and are, hopefully, enough to keep you and yours engaged for weeks to come!! Best of love and luck in teaching and learning.
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