"Teaching is one of the most difficult endeavors. Like the other "learned professions" learning to teach successfully requires years of trial and error during which insights and practices are developed that allow the teacher to understand the world of the classroom in great depth and to act in that world effectively and successfully". This quotation appears on The Voices of ... Teachers On Teaching.

Teaching and learning go hand in hand. Here are some interesting sites, discussions and articles that have helped me become a learning  teacher.

 

Nellie's English Lessons (NELS) are now available for teachers to enhance their professional development.

 

Teaching and learning

 

Teachers resources on integrating technology in the classroom

 

Buddy2 develops and facilitates leading edge learning projects in K-12 school communities to increase student achievement using technology in anytime, anywhere settings. Buddy2 initiatives aim to share best practices among educators, strengthen family involvement in education, and extend learning beyond the bounds of school time and place. Buddy2 values and supports equal access to learning technologies regardless of socioeconomic realities.

 

The National Staff Development Council (NSDC) is the largest non-profit professional association committed to ensuring success for all students through staff development and school improvement.

The Council views high quality staff development programs as essential to creating schools in which all students and staff members are learners who continually improve their performance.

 

Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) This site offers "Research Worth Reading Archive"

 

This is an excellent updated web site on the latest ideas on how to use the web in your teaching and learning. You will find over 799 examples of how the web is being used as a medium for learning.

 

The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) is...
... a consortium effort to provide "one-stop, any-stop" access to the substantial, but not cataloged, collections of Internet-based educational materials available on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

... a project of the U.S. Department of Education, located at the Information Institute of Syracuse at Syracuse University

 

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