Teachers' Professional Resources
If you have any good PD links for me to put up, please email them to me, Kim.
RSA Animate – Sir Ken Robinson – Changing Educational Paradigms
Excellent animated speech about changing the way we think about Education.
RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
Daniel Pink lectures on motivation in and out of the classroom.
TED Talks – Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.
Blog for teaching Mathematics creatively, and sharing ideas and projects among Maths teachers around the world.
Wired Magazine article about a revolutionary online website for teaching kids Mathematics
Khan Academy is an educational website that, as its tagline puts it, aims to let anyone “learn almost anything—for free.” Students, or anyone interested enough to surf by, can watch some 2,400 videos in which the site’s founder, Salman Khan, chattily discusses principles of math, science, and economics (with a smattering of social science topics thrown in).
Make called Bill a "brilliant science-and-technology documentarian", whose "videos should be held up as models of how to present complex technical information visually" Wired called them "dazzling."
Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: authors create and collaborate, instructors rapidly build and share custom collections, learners find and explore content.
The Museum of Modern Art offers free guides, lessons, and images on topics like futurism and artists like Eva Hesse, and Roy Lichtenstein.
The Public Broadcasting System in the United States has put together a website of high quality resources for teachers, including lesson plans, interactive exercises, offline activities, videos, discussion forums on best ways of approaching teaching problems.