Web Portals

Best Practice Tools for Teacher Professional Development and Instruction

This week I explored some useful website for Teacher Professional Development, as well as some useful websites/apps that I could use in my classroom to enhance the learning of my students.

Below you will find a chart of 10 websites that I found to be meaningful. The first 5 websites are for Professional Development. The last 5 websites are useful for instruction in my classroom to make learning fun and engaging. I hope you find these websites useful as well!

~Julie Love

Name of Online  Resource	Website URL	How will this site assist you in your teaching?
Bloomin’ Apps	www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html	On this website, Kathy Schrock has provided several ipad apps and online tools to support Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy. This covers the areas of Creating, Evaluating, Analyzing, Applying, Understanding, Remembering. I would use this website to obtain apps and online tools for my students to enhance their learning experience for several content areas.
Kathy Schrock’s iPads4Teaching	http://www.ipads4teaching.net/	This website provides professional development by means of teaching tips, tricks, and resources for teaching and learning with the iPad.
iPad Apps for School	http://ipadapps4school.com/	This website provides a wide arrange of apps that teachers can choose from to enhance the learning experience of their students in several content areas.
The Padagogy Wheel – It’s Not About The Apps, It’s About The Pedagogy	https://www.teachthought.com/technology/the-padagogy-wheel/	The Padagogy Wheel has several different domains of pedagogical thinking. It has mobile apps within each framework area, linking the educational purpose they are most likely will have.  This helps teachers to identify the place and purpose of their educational app and teaching activities.
California Department of Education	https://www.cde.ca.gov	This is the website for California Department of Education. It is important to know content standards and framework and make sure that lessons are designed in a way that help students achieve the desired learning goals.
Teach Your Monster to Read	http://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/	Teach Your Monster to Read, it covers everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences. Designed in collaboration with leading academics. Complements all synthetic phonics programmes used in schools. The reading games are fun and interactive and make learning to read engaging! I would use this resource four times a week, during reading groups when the students are working and the iPad.
Turtle Diary	https://www.turtlediary.com/	Turtle Diary offers many online learning games, videos, experiments, puzzles, coloring sheets, etc! Turtle Diary offers learning activities for Pre-K – 5th grade. In addition, it offers a variety of activities from Math, Language Arts, Science, Typing, Arts& Crafts, Biographies, Multiple Players, etc. The website also offers teaching tools such as: worksheet generator, assessments, common core activities, and assignment. I would could use this resource in a variety of ways, from Math and Reading practice on the iPad. Printable worksheets and Educational Videos for multiple subjects.
Happy Numbers	https://happynumbers.com/?redirect=no	“Happy Numbers is based on the best pedagogical practices for approaching each skill and concept: visual modeling, using concrete manipulatives and other time-tested approaches to math instruction.”  Happy Numbers can be used independently   providing individualized instruction for students.
Story Online	http://www.storylineonline.net/	The website states that, “Reading aloud to children has been shown to improve reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking and concentration, and general academic aptitude, as well as inspire a lifelong love of reading. Teachers use Storyline Online in their classrooms, and doctors and nurses play Storyline Online in children’s hospitals. Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.”
RoomRecess.com	http://www.roomrecess.com/pages/WordSkills.html	RoomRecess.com offers a variety of educational games from: Reading, Math, Word Work, Computer Lab, Mobile games, and Stories. The website offers several ELA and Math games that I would use in my class to enhance the learning and engagement of my students.

Reference:

Bloomin' Apps. (n.d.). Retrieved February 18, 2018, from http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html

California Department of Education. (n.d.). Retrieved February 18, 2018, from https://www.cde.ca.gov/

Home. (n.d.). Retrieved February 18, 2018, from http://www.storylineonline.net/

IPad Apps for School. (n.d.). Retrieved February 18, 2018, from http://ipadapps4school.com/

IPads for Teaching. (n.d.). Retrieved February 18, 2018, from http://www.ipads4teaching.net/

Math Centers that Deliver. (n.d.). Retrieved February 18, 2018, from https://happynumbers.com/?redirect=no

Teach Your Monster to Read. (n.d.). Retrieved February 15, 2018, from http://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/

The Padagogy Wheel - It's Not About The Apps, It's About The Pedagogy -. (2016, August 28). Retrieved February 18, 2018, from https://www.teachthought.com/technology/the-padagogy-wheel/

Turtle Diary. (n.d.). Retrieved February 15, 2018, from https://www.turtlediary.com/

Word Skills | A List of Word Skills for Games at RoomRecess.com. (n.d.). Retrieved February 18, 2018, from http://www.roomrecess.com/pages/WordSkills.html