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Welcome to the Digital Resource Wall for Educational Professionals

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Welcome to the Digital Resource Wall for Educational Professionals

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Below is your Cheat Sheet, or compilation, of 20 resources you can use to strengthen your teaching pedagogy. Resources are in no particular order. Use what you see fit. PS: Be sure to click on the links or video play button to learn more about a particular resource. Have fun!

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Twitter: @MindsetWorks
Information: Why does your mindset matter within schools? Keep up with the latest information correlating student and teacher success with positive growth mindsets by accessing the free resources on the website attached below.

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In 1988, Dr. Dweck first presented a research-based model to show the impact of mindsets. She showed how a person's mindset sets the stage for either performance goals or learning goals. A student with a performance goal might be worried about looking smart all the time, and avoid challenging work. On the other hand, a student with a learning goal will pursue interesting and challenging tasks in order to learn more.

In subsequent studies, Dr. Dweck found that people's theories about their own intelligence had a significant impact on their motivation, effort, and approach to challenges. Those who believe their abilities are malleable are more likely to embrace challenges and persist despite failure. This model of the fixed vs. growth mindset shows how cognitive, affective, and behavioral features are linked to one's beliefs about the malleability of their intelligence. The graphic below demonstrates this research, and how different mindsets lead to different patterns of behavior.

Dweck, C.S. & Leggett, E.L. (1988). A Social-Cognitive Approach to Motivation and Personality

Two Mindsets

Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. - Graphic by Nigel Holmes

Roll over the growth mindset graphics to learn more.

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Brainology is an online interactive program in which middle school students learn about how the brain works, how to strengthen their own brains, and how to better approach their own learning. In the process they develop a growth mindset whereby they think of their intelligence as something they can develop through study and learning rather than as something fixed, as explained by our co-founder Dr. Carol Dweck.

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Twitter: @EducationNext
Information: Stay educated and informed with the latest policy changes and reform movements by following Education Next online. This organization focuses on the necessary changes for the next shift in school. Educational Next shares insights via Twitter and through journal posts on the website.

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Education Next - A Journal of Opinion and Research About Education Policy

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First-ever state ranking of charter student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress

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Twitter: @sway
Information: Sway is an interactive storytelling application created by Microsoft. Just as its predecessors, PowerPoint and Prezi, Sway is a hands-on tool that sparks student creativity using a visual storytelling platform. Students are able to organize their ideas and bring their ideas to life using the dynamic and cinematic displays Sway has to offer. Learn more about Sway, view the video attached below:

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Twitter: @Flipgrid
Information: This tool enables students to begin discussions, reflections, or questions on books, films, and topics in your class.

As written on Cult of Pedagogy, "At a time when we are all getting less and less comfortable with face-to-face communication, preferring instead to talk through text, Flipgrid gives us a way to bring our real voices, our actual faces, our true, less-edited selves back into play."

View the video below to learn more about how you can infuse Flipgrid into your lessons.

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Twitter: @RemindHQ
Information: Remind is a communication platform that helps students, teachers, and parents communicate easily. Teachers can "push out" reminders for upcoming events, announcements, and embrace positive feedback using the comfort of their phone, tablet, or work laptop.

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Stay connected with your classes with free two-way messaging

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Twitter: @googledocs
Information: Although Google Drive is mentioned on this resource wall, Google Docs deserves its own acknowledgement. Google Docs allows students, teachers, and staff to collaborate and share their ideas on a single document and send with a single click. The Twitter handle, @googledocs shares a magnitude of tips and tricks to use when using Google Docs for your educational purposes. To learn more, refer to the article below, "10 Things Teachers Should Know How to Do with Google Docs."

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Twitter: @AppleEDU
Information: Apple has created an up to date learning environment for students to use. Make learning hands-on and learn more about various apps and activities you can bring into your classroom or school by learning more about Apple and its stance on education.

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A collection of project guides that bring creative expression to every subject.

Everyone Can Create teaches students new skills to develop and communicate ideas through video, photography, music, and drawing on iPad. From quick introductory activities to skill building project guides, teachers have a range of fun and meaningful ways to ignite creativity with any lesson, at any grade level.

See what's new in the project guides

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Everyone Can Create teaches students new skills to develop and communicate ideas through video, photography, music, and drawing on iPad. From quick introductory activities to skill building project guides, teachers have a range of fun and meaningful ways to ignite creativity with any lesson, at any grade level.

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Twitter: @eschoolnews
Information: ESchoolNews continuously makes posts that inform its audience of up to date news and events that are occuring within schools all over the nation. This is a great resource for educators to seek awareness of what is currently and will happen within school environments.

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eSchool Media Sites: eCampus News | eClassroom News | eSchool Media

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Url: www.biomanbio.com
Twitter: Unavailable
Information: Infuse content with gaming to secondary science lessons that meet the Next Generation Science Standards! This website can be accessed through a laptop or a tablet. Students are able to complete a worksheet that goes along with the virtual game. This reinforces content in a fun and engaging way!
Educational Gaming inside the Classroom: “As of fall 2013, 74% of K-8 teachers were using digital games. 55% of these teachers have students playing digital games at least weekly, 9% daily. The games they are using are mostly designed to be educational, with only 5% playing commercial games, and 8% playing hybrids (commercial games adapted for education like MincraftEDU or SimCityEdu). These insights come from Joan Ganz Cooney Center at the Sesame Workshop, who recently released a study surveying K-8 teachers in order to understand how they are implementing digital games in their classrooms.”

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Twitter: @MindShiftKQED
Information: MindShift has a Twitter handle, blog, and podcast channel where experts focus on  the future of learning, covering cultural and tech trends and innovations in education.

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KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We're the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California.

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Twitter: @SchoolLeadNow
Information: This website and Twitter share the latest insights for leaders to have access to improve on various pedagogies for the workplace. Each article or Tweet is geared for a specific vision to be achieved.

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School Leaders Now | Insights, Advice, and Inspiration for School Admins

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School Leaders Now is the place principals, superintendents, and other district and school admins go to share ideas, learn, laugh, collaborate, and more.

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Twitter: @googledrive
Information: It's time to go virtual. Store all of your slides, documents, sheets, and additional resources for your educational purposes in Google Drive. You will be able to collaborate with others live. Students can create notes, presentations, and files with their peers all online! Click here to learn more.

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Twitter: @Schoology
Information: If your district uses Schoology as it's educational platform, set yourself to take full advantage of this educational extension! You will be able to communicate with students, teachers, administrators, and parents all in a safe and positive school environment. Schoology offers groups, discussions, journals, quizzes and tests digitally, along with polls and various calendar events to keep everyone in the loop! A similar and popular platform is also Google Classroom.

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Get a Demo of Schoology's K-12 Learning Management System

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Schedule time for one of Schoology's Digital Learning Specialists to show you how the leading K-12 LMS connects all the people, content, and systems that fuel education.

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Twitter: @pbsteachers
Information: PBS Teachers provides teachers inspiration for student success. This blog provides resources for teachers to access including teaching materials, professional development, digital innovations, and new ideas for teachers to bring into their classroom. In addition, the Twitter handle, @pbsteachers, provides followers with updates with the most up to date pedagogies.

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PBS Teacher Blogs that Inspire, Educate, and Transform | PBS Education

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Your source for teaching inspiration, blogs, events, resources, and fresh ideas.

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Twitter: @Pinterest
Information: Pinterest offers a visual perspective for teachers to become inspired for bringing in lessons into their classrooms that other teachers may be using in their classroom. Pinterest brings together a creative, innovative side for educators to share and collect their interests. To learn more about how you can use Pinterest for your classroom, refer to the article attached below:

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Learning nowadays is certainly different from when I went to school. Although I didn't go down the Teacher career path, I am certainly on the way through now from a parent and educator's point of view as my kids start grade 1. Its been almost 20 years since I left my high school classroom which is the dinosaurs to the current educational technology and mobile learning advances we have today. So I was excited to do some research myself on ways teachers can use Pinterest.
Here is what I found. Here are some ways Teachers are using Pinterest:

1. Inspire: My recollection of schools are visions of drawings, decorating and displayed work that frequently gets transitioned across topics. Why don't you grab you inspiration from Pinterest in your next topic?

2. Curating Content: Ideas including creating resource boards, pinning current issues, finding and pin images as part of your projects and future lesson plans.

3. Organising Ideas: Keep your ideas organised with Pinterest by sorting and adding comments to remind youself why you pinned, create boards that are inventories, create boards for subjects.

4. Collaborate with Others: Find other teachers with similar interest, request feedback, open boards to the community i.e. parents and connect with other universities and schools.

Furthermore here are some Ideas for Lessons and Professional Development.

Lesson Time

School is not just all play but time to learn. So how do teachers use Pinterest for Lesson Planning? Here are few further ideas around Lesson Time.

Collect Printables

Discover science lessons to experiment with

Swap lesson plans with other teachers

Find popular reading books to recommend in the classroom

Search by grade or age for specific lessons

Collect ideas for excursions

Craft Time - What kids don't love craft. Pin a few and test them out.

Professional Development

Teaching as a profession is rewarding and besides just the day to day work with students there is always opportunity to share what you are doing with other teachers and educations. Pinterest is the answer to this too.

Start a conversation/message with other educators on a topic/lesson/board that inspires you.

Share what you are doing in the classroom

Search and find wonderful teacher group boards and blogs

Connect and collaboration to work together with other teachers to share ideas and build better lessons

Request feedback from other teachers

Be open to new and innovative teaching methods

Be on top of the latest trends in education.

Search for tutorials on how to teach something or a do a project.

Save and bookmark pin great tech resources to back too.

Here are some great Teachers and Group Boards on Pinterest to inspire you.

Teachers - Teachers (they snapped a great title!) have created a series of well followed board by Age Group from Kindergarten to 6th Grade. Plus check out their Subject boards from Art to Science.

Math - Bring Math to Life is a profile all about teaching Math activities from exams, to age related activities, to free lessons. A great Math resource to Follow.

Science - The Einstein Project is a great resource for all things science from from engaging science materials and teacher training to advance science knowledge, skill and an enthusiasm for learning.

English Teacher - Visit Alyson Yap who is an English Teacher. With 100 Boards and over 65,000 Pins on huge extensive learning materials to get you started.
What are you favourite Teaching and Education Profile and Boards? Share them in the comments below.

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How Teachers can use Pinterest as a tool for Teaching - PinCredible Marketing

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Learning nowadays is certainly different from when I went to school. Although I didn't go down the Teacher career path, I am certainly on the way through now from a parent and educator's point of view as my kids start grade 1. Its been almost 20 years since I left my high school classroom which [...]

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Twitter: @GetKahoot
Information: Use a fun educational gaming platform like Kahoot to assess your students for understanding after a lesson! Kahoot allows students to use technology to answer questions with a countdown feature. This educational gaming platform challenges students to compete with one another while building upon content knowledge.

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Twitter: @pbsteachers
Information: Children and teens today consume media on a daily basis. Teachers and classrooms can meet students where they are by infusing media effectively and appropriately in the classroom. PBS LearningMedia is an online digital library with over 1.5 million registered teacher users. It provides over 100,000 free educational media resources which include videos, audio, images and accompanying resources and lesson plans.

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PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

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Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.

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Twitter: @fastcrayon
Information: Amy Fast is a an Assistant Principal and author of, "It's the Mission, Not the Mandates." Her professional Twitter is an excellent source for effective practices that school leaders today need to address. Her vision  promotes a positive school climate  and places students and teachers at the heart of an effective education.

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Tweets by fastcrayon

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Twitter: @cultofpedagogy
Information: Hands down one of my favorite resources! Cult of Pedagogy is an excellent source for teachers, counselors, and leaders to use to strengthen skills across a wide range of topics. Truly a wealth of information: You will have access to the latest research practices that are proven to be most effective in schools.  The website includes a blog and podcast section for educators to easily have access to. The Twitter handle, @cultofpedagogy, continuously makes posts to keep school leaders informed and inspired to create a positive school climate.

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Twitter: @Twitter
Information:  Last but not least: Twitter is the ultimate educational source to build upon teaching pedagogies, content practices, and communication between students, administration, and parents. Embracing Twitter can positively impact school culture. To learn more about how you can use Twitter for your school environment, read the article attached below. Join me on Twitter  by following  @thesciencebean and let's spread our passion for education.