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Becoming a Teacher

Requirements, salaries, and paths to become a teacher by state, location, and more. Information on the best places to teach based on a number of factors such as class size and salary. Also provies the latest education and the teaching profession news.

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

Kids today are often referred to as “digital natives”. They enjoy being able to express themselves through the many digital technologies that they are so facile with; technologies that they would enjoy putting to use for the purposes of learning (and school work) as well.

This video was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills and be better prepared to succeed in the century. read more

The Habitable Planet: A complete multimedia course in Environmental Science

"The Habitable Planet is a multimedia course for high school teachers and adult learners interested in studying environmental science. The Web site provides access to course content and activities developed by leading scientists and researchers in the field."

Fantastic resource with videos, interactive labs, and images & animations.The audience is teachers and adult learner, but could be used by high school students as well.

 

The Truth Is Free...

(...as are so many things on the web these days (or at least seemingly so :))

Thus readeth the tag line of this amazing site for free documentaries that a friend shared last night. Freedocumentaries.org has about 125 documentaries that are also categorized by themes and regions of the world. read more

ANIMOTO - Create high-impact videos from photographs

I came across this really cool tool for making snazzy videos in a matter of minutes, and just had to share it here! read more

The 10th Waldorf (Rudolf Steiner) Education Seminar

Some of the subjects in the seminar will be: 

  1. Anthroposophy of  Dr. read more

Dewey's Classics Now in Hindi

John Dewey is acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. He authored several books that are considered required reading for anyone aspiring to be in the field of education, especially as a teacher.

2 of his classics have now been translated in Hindi - Experience and Education, and The School and the Child. read more

Test your Multiple Intelligences Profile (and your students' too!)

Since there has been much written here on educatorslogin on the subject of Multiple Intelligences (MI) and the use of this theory in the classroom, I thought I'd share a few sites that teachers, parents...anyone really, can use to assess their MI profile, and more importantly to help identify strengths (and weaknesses) of your students, perhaps at the beginning of the academic year when you have a bunch of new students to work with.

Some are online and some can be printed out and done offline. read more

Learning from Children What to Teach Them

I went to the ndtv.com review of the new book on Alternative Schooling in India that Anjum shared in this post, and discovered this other new book on education, also published by Sage (price Rs. 395), that is authored by Malvika Kapur and is titled "Learning from Children What to Teach Them". I'm copying the blurb here - 

"This enriching book explores quality education at the grassroots level for disadvantaged children. read more