Unit of Instruction
Professional Development Plan
NEE Resources
Resources compiled by Mr. Scott Cook & Mrs. Trish Johnston
Unit of Instruction Resources
How to Make Your Questions Essential
A Giant List of Really Good Essential Questions
44 Prompts Merging Reflective Thinking with Bloom's Taxonomy
3 Ways of Getting Student Feedback to Improve Your Teaching
Edutopia's Research Reviews: Resource Roundup
Incorporating Bloom's Taxonomy into Your Lesson Objectives
Wheel of Instructional Objectives
Using Technology to Make Essential Questions an Essential Part of Your Instruction
Promoting Student Self-Assessment
15 Great Tools for Lesson Planning
Professional Development Plan Resources
8 tips for Reaching Out to Parents
27 Ways to Increase Family Involvement in the Classroom
5 Apps to Creatively Connect with Parents
Standard One: Content knowledge and perspectives aligned with appropriate instruction.
Indicator 1.1: Content knowledge and academic language
Doing It Differently: Tips for Teaching Vocabulary
8 Strategies for Teaching Academic Language
4 Good Visual Dictionaries for Teachers and Students
11 Tips on Teaching Common Core Vocabulary
3 Digital Tools for Common Core Academic Vocabulary
10 Dos and Don'ts for Teaching Vocabulary in Any Content Area
Haiku DeckFree App Builds Academic Vocabulary
Response: Many Ways To Help Students Develop Academic Vocabulary
Indicator 1.2: Cognitively engaging students in subject matter – deep thinking
Standard Two: Understanding and Encouraging Student Learning, Grown and Development
Indicator 2.2: Sets and monitors student goals.
Teaching and Modeling Persistence: Setting Goals
Indicator 2.4: Meeting the needs of every student
Addressing Our Needs: Maslow Comes to Life for Educators and Students
Creating More Compassionate Classrooms
Simple Ways to Cultivate Happiness in Schools
Emotion is What Makes Students Tick
Two Helpful Resources on Social Emotional Learning
10 Things Your Students Need From You
The Emotional Atmosphere of a Classroom (video)
Five Keys to Successful Social and Emotional Learning
Standard Four: Teaching for Critical Thinking
Indicator 4.1: Instructional strategies leading to student problem solving and critical thinking
Bloom's Taxonomy: Teacher Planning Kit
10 Team-Building Games That Promote Critical Thinking
Using Webb's Depth of Knowledge to Increase Rigor
Bloom's Critical Thinking Questions to use in Class
The Importance of Asking Questions to Promote Higher-Order Competencies
Tons of Resources for Teaching Critical Thinking to Your Students
Using Webb's Depth of Knowledge to Increase Rigor
Teaching Strategies to Promote Critical Thinking
4 Steps to Making Rigorous Discussion a Routine
Incorporating Bloom's Taxonomy into Your Lesson Objectives
Striving for Higher-Order Thinking and Depth of Knowledge
Critical Thinking Via Infographics
General Principles for Assessing Higher-Order Thinking
9 Strategies to Improve Your Students Thinking Skills
Three Steps to Critical Thinking
Planning for Critical Thinking : A 5-Step Model
5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students
Bloom's Taxonomy Apps - A Great Resource Section for Teachers
Q & A Collections: Instructional Strategies
20 Reflective Questions to Help Students Respond to Common Core Texts
Resources and Downloads for Teaching Critical Thinking
249 Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs for Critical Thinking
Useful Web Tools to Integrate Digital Blooms Taxonomy into Your Teaching
Interesting Graphic Featuring 30+ iPad Apps for Bloom's Taxonomy
Teaching Students to Dig Deeper
10 Practical Ideas for Better Project-Based Learning in Your Classroom
25 Top Concept-Mapping Tools for Visual Learning
What is Project Based Learning (PBL)?
10 of the Best Free Curriculum Resources for Teachers
4 Teaching Tips for More Effective Direct Instruction
How to Create a Rubric that Does What You Want It To
The Best Resources for Helping Teachers use Bloom's Taxonomy in the Classroom
Indicator 4.2: Appropriate use of instructional Resources to enhance student learning
Access More Than 1,000 Socrative Quizzes Sorted by Subject
cK-12 Website for Teacher Resources
8 Engaging Ways to use Technology in the Classroom to Create Lessons That Aren't Boring
The Public Domain Project Makes 10,000 Film Clips, 64,000 images & 100's of Audio Files
Wonderful Resources to Integrate Technology in Your Classroom
Purpose Games - Create Online Review Games
This is How to Automatically Grade Quizzes Using Google Forms
6 Free Online Resources for Primary Source Documents
Teachers' Favored Web 2.0 Tools
App Suggestions for Learning Activities in BYOD Classrooms
A Handy Guide to Everything Teachers Need to Know about Edmodo
24 Essential iPad Learning Tools from Edshelf
5 Tools for Creating Your Own Infograhics
15 Excellent Apps for Learning
11 Must Have iPad Apps for Teachers
A Good iPad Fluency Graphic for Teachers
7 Wonderful Google Docs Tutorials for Teachers
7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology
80 Interesting Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom
46 Tools to Make Infographics in the Classroom
Indicator 4.3: Cooperative Learning
10 Dos and Don'ts for Group Work & Student Grouping
Try Azendoo to Organize Group Projects
Standard Five: Creating a Positive Classroom Learning Environment
Indicator 5.1: Motivating and engaging students
27 Ways to Promote Instrinsic Motivation in the Classroom
Strategies for Helping Students Motivate Themselves
7 Simple Ways You Can Help Students Pay Attention In A Traditional Classroom
Are You Not Entertained? How to Build a Dynamic Lecture
What Keeps Students Motivated to Learn?
"Why Do We Need to Learn This?"
Connecting with Students on the Fringes
Are Your Students Engaged? Don't Be So Sure
Attention, Teachers! Why Students are Bored
Choice Equals Power: How to Motivate Students to Learn
10 Ways to Get Students Engaged
A Must See Visual Featuring the 5 Levels of Student Management
Good Time: 4 Ways to Reawaken Student Engagement
Six Strategies that Motivate ALL Students to Participate
5 Ways to Open Up Learning & Engage Students
Five Key Strategies to Get/Keep Kids Engaged at School
Q & A Collections: Student Motivation
Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement
3 Ways to Intrinsically Motivate Learners
The Definition of Intrinsic Motivation
The 6 Key Drivers of Student Engagement
Student Debate Deepens Thinking and Engagement
Question & Answer Collection on Student Motivation
27 Ways to Increase Student Engagement in Learning
My Best Posts on Motivating Students
3 Easy Ways to Engage Students with Technology
25 Tricks to Improve a Boring Lesson for Improved Student Engagement
Activity Speaks Louder than Words: Improving Student Engagement
How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class
TED Talks to Spark a Conversation
Indicator 5.2: Managing time, space, transitions, and activites
New Teachers: Classroom-Management Fundamentals
How to Begin Each Day on the Right Classroom Management Foot
Refocusing Students: How to Get Their Attention Back
How to Create Effective Homework
14 Teacher-Recommended Classroom Management Apps
The Best Questions to Use for Class Closing Activities--What Are Yours?
Indicator 5.3b: Establishes a secure teacher-child relationship
Do's and Don'ts of Classroom Management: Your 25 Best Tips
Pinterest: Classroom Management Tips
Classroom Management: The Intervetion Two-Step
27 Classroom Management Startegies to Keep Things Fresh
4 Timeless Elements of Strong Student-Teacher Relationships
7 Tips for Better Classroom Management
Inside Classroom Management: Ideas and Solutions
Watch a Clasroom Management Expert
Q & A Collections: Classroom Management Advice
60 Ways to Connect with Your Students
Classroom Management Strategies for Difficult Students: Promoting Change Through Relationships
A Really, Really Well-Written Set of Classroom Rules
Classroom Management Strategy: Here are Three Things I Want. What are Three Things You Want?
More Positive, Not Punitive, Classroom Mangaement Tips
8 Classroom Management Tips from Google
Standard Seven: Use of Student Assessment Data to Analyze and Modify Instruction
Indicator 7.4: Effect of instruction on individual/class learning – formative assessment
10 Fun-Filled Formative Assessment Ideas
10 Exit Slip Prompts that Will Work for Any Class
8 Frequent Sources of Formative Assessment Data
Formative Assessment: The Right Question at the Right Time
12 Steps to Creating a Successful Redo and Retake Policy
5 Fanstastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools
5 Strategies for Formative Assessment
A Visual Chart on Summative VS Formative Assessment
Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding
Teachers May Need to Deepen Assessment Practices for Common Core
Do You Check for Understanding Often Enough with Students?
Creating a Formative Assessment System
Quiz Socket- A Simple Feedback Tool for Teachers and Students
Questions and Answers About Formative Assessment
The Stoplight Method: An End-of-Lesson Assessment
22 Easy Formative Assessment Techniques for Measuring Student Learning
Hit the Mark with Digital Media Exit Cards
Rethinking Whole Class Discussion
Create Multimedia Presentations and Quizzes in Edmodo
10 Tools for Creating Class Puzzles and Quizes
5 Great New Web Tools For Creating
EQuizShow: An application which allows teachers to create a quiz show to help students
prepare for exams or assessments
Formative Assessments Are Easier Than You Think!
26 Teacher Tools to Create Online Assessments
12 Stragegies for Critical Assessment
The Best Resources for Learning About Formative Assessment
How to Create a Test That Grades Itself Using Google Forms
Designing Assessment Using the Power of Google Forms
10 Assessments You Can Perform In 90 Seconds
