Teacher Tools

TeachingBooks.net
  • Get original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, and a wealth of multimedia resources on K–12 books to support reading for all grades and content areas.
  • Remember to use your nycdoe password at home.

Web 2.0 Tools

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AASL's Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning
- foster innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration.
- free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
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 Bloom's Taxonomy Web 2.0
Tools to help our students:
Create
Evaluate
Analyze
Apply
Understand
Remember

ReadingRockets.org
ReadingRockets.org
  • Resources to support all your readers
  • Assist struggling readers
  • Get author interview clips
  • FREE Professional development webcasts (great for certification)
  • FREE videos & podcasts on best practices
  • Counselors & speech therapist sections

NewYorkHeritage.org

Type in the search box.
Great Primary Sources!
Research portal to hundreds of digital collections about NYS's people, places, and institutions. NewYorkHeritage.org brings together freely accessible digital collections from libraries, museums and archives from all over the state. See NY State's rich and unique history told through images, artifacts and documents.

Digital Docs in a Box

A collection of annotated documents, images and audio clips primarily from the Library of Congress on:
  • American Revolution
  • Age of Imperialism
  • Chinese Immigration
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • The Great Depression
  • Japanese Internment
  • Lewis Hine: Social Change
  • Native Americans
  • Presidential Inaugurations
  • Transportation
  • Westward Expansion
  • Women's Suffrage

Maps and Atlases

Find a variety of maps here: http://bpclib.weebly.com/maps.html

NYPL Databases & Library Cards 

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Sign Up for a FREE NYPL Card
  • This is for regular private use.
Sign Up for a FREE Educator Card
  • Borrow up to 100 items
  • Place up to 50 items on hold
  • 60 day loan period for most print materials
1. NYPL Tools for Teachers
  • Search the Digital Gallery for primary documents, videos, images, maps
  • Use tools to easily create your own online, narrated slide presentations on a wide variety of topics!

2. NYPL Professional Development for Teachers
  • Find out about upcoming FREE events

3. NYPL's Recommended Databases for Teachers
  • Primary Sources
  • Digital Gallery with 700,000 images
  • Lesson plans & more
  • To access the databases, you must have a NYPL card.

Find the Level of a Book

Scholastic's Book Wizard
- Find the level of many books

Lesson Plans

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PBS LearningMedia
- provides free access to over 14,000  resources tied to national standards.
- download, save and share what you need for an inspired classroom experience. Sign up is free and easy!
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
- categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.
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Thinkfinity
- thousands of free lesson plans
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Time for Kids
- homework helper
- you can log into the teacher section
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Library of Congress
- bring the power of primary sources into your classroom
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9/11 Resources - Brainpop
- Videos, lesson plans, archives

NYCDOE - 9/11 Lesson Plans
http://www.911memorial.org/lesson-plans

Homework Sites

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1. Dial A Teacher
Call a real NYC teacher and get free HW help on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday (4 - 7 pm).
Teachers speak: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Haitian-Creole, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish
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2. Homework NYC
Send an Instant Message (IM) to a real NYC teacher Monday through Thursday, from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm.

Professional Development & Danielson

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NYCDOE Professional Development Registration System

Danielson Rubric  and Forms for Evaluations http://www2.portlandschools.org/danielson-forms

Danielson Lesson Plan Format
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/what-does-a-common-coreda_b_3804493.html

2013-14 Curriculum Maps

6th_-_ela.docx
File Size: 117 kb
File Type: docx
Download File

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