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Instruction"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
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Technology has become the forefront and backbone of our society today. We use technology to communicate, entertain, inform, and to educate. Since technology has become such a crucial part of our society, why not use it to our advantage when instructing our students? Technology can provide a needed visual or alternative explanation of for topic to you or your students.
There are many great resources out there that can provide teachers with supplemental materials that can be quickly adapted to the needs of each classroom.
There are many great resources out there that can provide teachers with supplemental materials that can be quickly adapted to the needs of each classroom.
Independent Instruction
How great would it be as teachers if we could actually give our student all the 1 to 1 support that our students need? Do your students sometimes benefit from an additional voice to explain the very topic you were just trying to teach them? At times, the voice of a virtual person is all our students needs to help understand that concept you were just trying to teach them.
How great would it be as teachers if we could actually give our student all the 1 to 1 support that our students need? Do your students sometimes benefit from an additional voice to explain the very topic you were just trying to teach them? At times, the voice of a virtual person is all our students needs to help understand that concept you were just trying to teach them.
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Read Theory
(Free) www.readtheory.com Read Theory is an online reading program that provides differentiated reading assignments and activities for teachers. The online program will also help track student progress. |
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Read Works
(Free) www.readworks.org Read Works is a free online research based curriculum that allows you to assign your students digital or print reading articles for them to practice at their own level. After the student reads over the article, it also provides an assessment tool for the teacher to use.with the student. |
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Zearn
(Free) www.Zearn.org Zearn is a free online math program that is designed to assist a teacher with working with multiple groups of students at a time. Zearn has an online component that can teach students math skills up through fifth grade. Zearn records student progress when the student is using the online resource. While students are online with Zearn, a teacher can use activities designed by Zearn to instruct their students in a small group. |
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Reading Bear
(Free) www.readingbear.org Reading Bear features basic video lessons on beginning reading skills. There are clean videos from teaching letter sounds to creating sentences. This would be a great tool for younger students who are working on early literacy skills. |
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Teach Your Monster to Read
(Free) www.TeachYourMonstertoRead.com Teach Your Monster is a free online reading program that focuses on phonics. This is a great tool for younger students working on early literacy skills. Each student is given an account that can be designed to fit their needs. Students progress in the game through reading levels that focus on their areas of need. Teachers can then go back and review the data associated with each student. |
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LearnZillion
(Free) www.LearnZillion.com LearnZillion provides both math and language arts video lessons that can be given to either a whole group or an individual student. When students work on their own, it records their progress and gives you the data for how they performed. Lessons from this site are prepared for students of all grade levels. |
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Prodigy Math Game
(Free) www.prodigygame.com/ Prodigy Math Game is a free math content review site. It can be best described as Pokemon meets IXL. Teachers are able to create individual accounts for their students and choose standards that are best comparable to their states curriculum. Teachers are able to assign math subjects for the students to practice while they play the game. As the student plays the game, the game narrows itself to your student's level of completing the work. The game will not move onto a new lesson until the student is ready. Additionally, the students can compete against AI or other players. |
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Readagogo
($1.29 per student per year) (Information) Readagogo is an online reading program that allows students to read books on their level and then answer questions that pertain to the book. Teachers can assign tasks for their students and then observe their progress online. Additionally, it does provide a read aloud option. |
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Khan Academy
(Free) www.khanacademy.com Khan Academy is a resource that can help break down math and science concepts for your students. How often do you wish that you could go home with your students to help them with their homework or remind them on how to solve a math equation? Do your kids sometimes require an additional explanation of an academic concept? Khan Academy provides tons of free videos that give their viewers excellent break downs of both math and science concepts. Additionally, Khan Academy provides a free curriculum that allows students to follow along at their own pace. |
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YouTube
(Free) www.youtube.com YouTube has tons of resources! YouTube can provide you with break downs of topics that you are trying to teach your students. They can also provide your students with a first hand perspective on the topic that they are learning about. YouTube has tons of interviews with experts in various fields. |
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EDpuzzle
(Free) Information EDpuzzle is a great tool for providing video based instruction to your students. Teachers are able to enter questions for their students to answer into the YouTube video and the video will stop until the student has answered the question. This can be a great tool for the students to complete when in the computer lab, as a review assignment, a snow day activity, or extra credit. |
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Kahoot!
(Free) Information Create interactive game show style games for your students to play during class. Students can access and participate in the game with any mobile device or computer. |
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Plickers
(Free) Information Plickers allows you to do quick whole group assessments and/or review activity and/or games using one mobile device with a camera and a printer out paper. Create a question or set of questions, print out the page that correlates with the set of questions, and then use your phone to scan the room to see how each student answered. |
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Mirroring360
($20.00) Information Looking to display your tablet screen onto a TV monitor or computer projector? Check out Mirroring360! This computer program allows you to live stream your tablet screen to any computer. This can be a great tool when you are wanting to show your tablet application to a whole entire class. Using this application does not require any cords, it works through your wireless internet. |
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Interactive Learning and Review
Students love to use technology every chance you get. Technology can assist a child who may not always volunteer an answer during whole group instruction. The tools below will allow you to review material and engage your students in interactive instruction and review.
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NearPod
Free www.nearpod.com Nearpod Video Information Does your school have a BYOD program? Do you have access to computers, tablets, and other Smart Device? NearPod is a browser based presentation format that can put your PowerPoint presentation into the hands of your students as you instruct them. Using NearPod, you can provide a special web link to your students that can be accessed via any browser. Once the student access the link in their browser, they can follow along with your presentation. As a teacher, you can even conduct formal and informal assessments through the program. The best thing? There is no installation required onto any device used! |
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Spelling City
(Free)
www.spellingcity.com
Spelling City is a great mostly free resource that allows students to practice their spelling words. Using this site, teachers are able to put their customized spelling words into an account and students can then practice their words using a variety of games and instructional activities. The great thing with this site is that a teacher can post multiples groups of spelling words on their pages for their accounts. This way, each of your spelling groups is able to practice the words that you assign to them
(Free)
www.spellingcity.com
Spelling City is a great mostly free resource that allows students to practice their spelling words. Using this site, teachers are able to put their customized spelling words into an account and students can then practice their words using a variety of games and instructional activities. The great thing with this site is that a teacher can post multiples groups of spelling words on their pages for their accounts. This way, each of your spelling groups is able to practice the words that you assign to them
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BrainScape
(Free) https://www.brainscape.com/ Teachers are able to create flash card decks for students to review on their tablets and computers. This can be great for additional instruction or addtional review activities. |
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EasyCBM
Free www.EasyCBM.com EasyCBM provides you a quick and simple assessment tool to help you determine what areas in both math and reading that you students require support in. Assessments can be found for students in any grade level. You are able to test students reading fluency, readying comprehension, math number sense, and much more! The assessment tools can either be completed on paper or online. You can also track student individual performance using their online tools. EasyCBM provides videos tutorials for how to best implement each of their assessments. |
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Windows Voice Recorder
(Free) Information All Windows devices have a built in voice recorder. If you are using a laptop, you should have a built in microphone. To find your voice recorder in Windows 10, 8, or 7, go to your Windows Search bar and type Voice Recorder. Students can use the voice recorder to record lectures, help them process information, or to remind themselves of tasks that they need to complete. Teachers can use it to record lessons, create audio study guides, or assist with read aloud testing. The file records as an mp3 and can be uploaded to a portable music player or a CD for the students to listen to on their own. |
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QR Stuff - QR Code Generator
(Free) http://www.qrstuff.com/ BE TE Video QR Codes can be a great tool for providing your students with access to the materials they need, directions for station activities, review activities, and assisting with putting their homework into their agenda. With the click of a few buttons, you are able to quickly generate a QR code to meet the needs of your class. |
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United for Literacy
(Free) http://www.uniteforliteracy.com/ United for Literacy provides free ebooks that can be accessed on a computer or tablet device. Each story has a button that can provide a read aloud option for your students. |
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TypingWeb
(Free) www.TypingWeb.com TypingWeb is a FREE online resource that will teach your students how to type on a computer! By creating a teacher account, you can within minutes create as many unique logins for each of your students as you can. Each unique login allows your students to follow their own progress as they become more efficient on a keyboard! We recommend allowing your students to use this site during down time, as a computer lab activity, or as one of your language arts centers! |
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Screen-O-Matic
(Free for 15 Minute Video) screencast-o-matic.com/ Screen-O-Matic offers a partially free screen recorder for your computer. Record a 15 minute mini lesson or instructional review video for your students and then share it with them though your class web page or a station activity. It is quick and easy to use! |
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Interactive White Boards
Many classrooms today have some form of an interactive whiteboard located within their classroom or school. Interactive White Boards are displays that are hooked up to a computer and allow the user to interact with their presentation. Using an interactive whiteboard, you are able to hand write directly onto your presentation, interact with your presentation, create engaging lessons, play games, lead Two of the more common interactive whiteboard brands that are seen in our schools are from SMART Technologies and Promethean. One great thing about both of these companies is that they provide online communities that have thousands of free interactive white board lessons that can be downloaded to your computer.
Interactive Whiteboards are great for whole group instruction, however they can also be a great tool for either individual student work or used as a station during the station teaching model. Interactive Whiteboard lessons make great whole, small group and independent review activities!
Many classrooms today have some form of an interactive whiteboard located within their classroom or school. Interactive White Boards are displays that are hooked up to a computer and allow the user to interact with their presentation. Using an interactive whiteboard, you are able to hand write directly onto your presentation, interact with your presentation, create engaging lessons, play games, lead Two of the more common interactive whiteboard brands that are seen in our schools are from SMART Technologies and Promethean. One great thing about both of these companies is that they provide online communities that have thousands of free interactive white board lessons that can be downloaded to your computer.
Interactive Whiteboards are great for whole group instruction, however they can also be a great tool for either individual student work or used as a station during the station teaching model. Interactive Whiteboard lessons make great whole, small group and independent review activities!
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Print to Smart Notebook
Text Directions: www.tinyurl.com/BETE-SmartPrintText Enabling Feature: www.tinyurl.com/BETE-SmartPrint Looking to digitally enhance your worksheets? Try uploading them to your Smartboard! When you upload a worksheet to a Smartboard, you can add additional features to the worksheet to make it more interactive. Additionally, you can model the worksheet for your students. |
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Interactive Sites
Free http://interactivesites.weebly.com/ Interactive Sites is a passageway to a large database of some of the best academic games out on the web. All of the games are sorted by subject and activity. This a great resource for adding to whichever lesson you are teaching each day! The large majority of the games on this site are all interactive whiteboard friendly! |
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ASL Pro
(Free) Information ASL Pro provides free video instruction on how to communicate using American Sign Language (ASL) this can be a great tool for teachers to use to learn some sing language so that they may communicate with students in their classroom. It can also be a great tool to provide some sign language instruction to the students in your classroom. |
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iOS Applications
iPads and iPhones are becoming a larger part of the educational world every day. There are tons of great applications out there to help supplement learning. Listed below are a few of our favorites!
iPads and iPhones are becoming a larger part of the educational world every day. There are tons of great applications out there to help supplement learning. Listed below are a few of our favorites!
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iCardSort
($9.99) BE TE Video Information iCard Sort allows you to create virtual flash cards on your iPad. Once you have created the deck, you can have your students sort them however you wish. |
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Educreations
(Free) Information Teachers are able to record themselves teaching a lesson on a whiteboard template. Video records can then be played back on all digital devices for students to look at on their own time or during a structured station activities. Students can also use it as an alternative to a whiteboard |
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The ASL App
Free) Information The ASL app is a free application for helping you and your students learn how to communicate in American Sign Language. They provide a different applications that can teach you how to sign terms for a variety of different setting and occasions. |
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Quizlet
(Free) www.quizlet.com Quizlet is a great review site for students. Using Quizlet, you are able to create digital flash cards for your students. This site can also be used as a study guide to help students reviews for upcoming tests and quizzes. The site can generate practice quizzes and activities for your student. Quizlet provides free and paid for options. There are tons of resources that you can use as a free user. Quizlet is available on any web browser along with any tablet. |
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VL2 Storybook App
(Price Varies) Information A collection of digital books and curriculum designed to include provide instruction and storytelling through ASL and English. Additionally, they provide lessons on how to utilize these tools in your classroom. These resources were created by Gallaudet University. |
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Smithsonian Channel
(Free) Information Take your students on virtual field trips through the National Smithsonian! |
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Wet Dry Try
($4.99) Information Are you using Handwriting Without Tears with your students to teach beginning handwriting skills? Check out their iOS application! It follows a script can can be used for independent practice. |
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TC Patterns
($3.99) Information Working on Touch Math with your students? Check out this application that follows along as a supplementary resource for your student's every day Touch Math Practice Skills! |
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Breathe2Relax
(Free) Information This is a great application for when you are working on teaching coping strategies with your students. Students are able to choose a stress level and then follow along with different breathing activities. This can be a great resource to put on a student's individual device for when they are working independently. |
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I-NIgma - QR Code Scanner
(Free) iOS Download Android Download I-Nigma is one of the best rated QR Code scanners on the market. I-Nigma will scan and read any QR code that is put in front of your handheld device's camera. QR codes can be a great tool for assisting students with organization and building upon their independence. |
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Native Camera Application
(Free) iOS Information Android Information All smartphones today have a built in camera. The camera can be used to take a picture of information to store and use at a later time. It can also be used to help students be aware of their own responses and also help them process information. Try recording the student speak and have them play back the information to identify how they can change their word choices. (Be sure to have parent permission before using this and to delete the files after you are finished using it.) |
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Virtual Field Trips
How great would it be if we could jump onto a magical school bus that took our class anywhere we needed it to go? Unfortunately... School funding does not always provide us with that option, however visiting other places is becoming even easier through the use of technology. By using virtual field trips, you are able to bring the real world to your students through the use of the technology that is available in your school building.
How great would it be if we could jump onto a magical school bus that took our class anywhere we needed it to go? Unfortunately... School funding does not always provide us with that option, however visiting other places is becoming even easier through the use of technology. By using virtual field trips, you are able to bring the real world to your students through the use of the technology that is available in your school building.
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Google Earth and Google Sky
www.google.com/earth www.google.com/sky Google provides two different that can allow you to literally walk on the streets of any city in the world and also allow you to travel through space. With Google Earth, you are able to literally walk on the streets and observe different parts of the world. Google Sky allows you to travel to different planets in our solar system. Using these programs, you also have access to pre-programmed tours that are linked with YouTube videos and discussion questions. |
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Free Virtual Field Trips
There are tons of FREE virtual field trips out on the web. Each one allows you to literally walk in other parts of the world. Some allow you to walk through time! Many our Interactive White Board and Tablet friendly! Check out these cool sites below for lots of FREE virtual field trips.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/virtual-field-trips
http://www.earlychildhoodeducationzone.com/virtual-field-trips/
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic35.htm
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2013/04/07/ten-of-the-best-virtual-field-trips/
http://techforteachers.com/teachers/virtual-field-trips/
http://www.simplek12.com/virtual-learning/virtual-field-trips-every-teacher-ought-to-know-about/
https://myccs.ccs.k12.in.us/clm/media-center/fieldtrips
There are tons of FREE virtual field trips out on the web. Each one allows you to literally walk in other parts of the world. Some allow you to walk through time! Many our Interactive White Board and Tablet friendly! Check out these cool sites below for lots of FREE virtual field trips.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/virtual-field-trips
http://www.earlychildhoodeducationzone.com/virtual-field-trips/
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic35.htm
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2013/04/07/ten-of-the-best-virtual-field-trips/
http://techforteachers.com/teachers/virtual-field-trips/
http://www.simplek12.com/virtual-learning/virtual-field-trips-every-teacher-ought-to-know-about/
https://myccs.ccs.k12.in.us/clm/media-center/fieldtrips
Online Resources for Instructional Practices and Classroom Support
Check out these free resources for learning more about a variety of different research based intervention and information about the different disabilities that fall under each disability category.
Check out these free resources for learning more about a variety of different research based intervention and information about the different disabilities that fall under each disability category.
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Amazon Inspire
(Free) www.amazoninspire.com/ Amazon Inspire is an online community of teachers that provides free classroom resources for teachers. You can find anything from lesson plan activities to data sheet templates! All resources on this site are created by teachers for teachers. |
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Intervention Central
(Free) http://www.interventioncentral.org/ Has a listing of different strategies that you can apply to your classroom as a part of the RTI process. The site discusses both behavioral and academic interventions. |
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Do2Learn
(Free) http://www.do2learn.com/ Do2Learn provides explanations of all of the different disability categories covered under IDEA. Do2Learn provides free printable social skills, academic, and behavioral supports and activities will provide you with strategies on how to teach them. |
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PBIS World
(Free) www.pbisworld.com PBIS World provides a friendly user interface that will help you come up with strategies on what to do to provide behavioral support to students in your school or classroom. This a is a great tool to use when creating a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) for a student. |
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Autism Teaching Strategies
(Free) www.autismteachingstrategies.com Autism Teaching Strategies provides tons of free resources and supports that can assist you in teaching social skills and providing visuals for your students. |
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The Listening Room
Free Information The Listening Room provides free instructional activities for students who require additional support in their speech, language, and listening skills |
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Supporting Success for Students with Hearing Loss
Free Information Success Supporting for Students with Hearing Loss provides a lot of great resources and information on how to best support students who are deaf or having hearing loss in your classroom. This can be a great resource for learning more about how to support these students in your classroom. |
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ReadWriteThink
(FREE) Information ReadWriteThink provides tons of great free lesson plans, materials, professional developments for teachers. If you are seeking ideas for your language arts class, this is the place to go! |
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TeachersPayTeachers
(Prices Vary) Information TeachersPayTeachers provides teachers, parents, and students with materials that are created by teachers for teachers. Customers can find thousands of free and reasonably priced classroom materials including: lesson plans, classroom management materials, activities, review guides, and much more. Parents can finds tons of great review materials or items for their children to practice their skills during lengthy breaks. |
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What Works Clearinghouse
(Free) Information What Works Clearinghouse is a government funded website that provides tons of great information on research based interventions that can be successful with students. |
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ESSA Parent Advocacy Toolkit
(Free) Information Looking for information on how the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) affects you, your children, or students? Want to know how you can get involved? Check out this free toolkit! |
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