Some Tools, Some Books, and Some Definitions
I need a lot of help and resources when I try to understand something. And when it comes to understanding teaching and learning, there seems to be an overwhelming availability of resources. We’ve tried to narrow that down a bit, and offer a selection of tools to help your teaching, some books that we have used to inform our teaching, and a general glossary of terms … to make it sound like we know what we are doing.
All these sections are fluid … subject to change when something interesting shows up. Browse as long as you’d like, and enjoy the offerings in our resource room. We’re always interested in your ideas, particularly when it comes to useful tools and resources. So, send us an email with your comments and suggestions as well as any good books for teachers (you know how teachers are about the next good book).
All these sections are fluid … subject to change when something interesting shows up. Browse as long as you’d like, and enjoy the offerings in our resource room. We’re always interested in your ideas, particularly when it comes to useful tools and resources. So, send us an email with your comments and suggestions as well as any good books for teachers (you know how teachers are about the next good book).
Cognitive Tools
We’ve gone way past the days of the ruler, paper clip, and chalk as critical tools in the classroom. There is a dizzying array of tools, analog and digital, to help you in the classroom. You can find some useful and practical ones here.
Not ready for prime time.
Soon, though.
Book Bin
I Was rummaging through the book bin in my office and found a bunch of dog-eared books on teaching. They're in a book bin because I use them so often that they rarely get back to the shelf. I guess it is technically a curated selection, but that makes it sound too formal. These are just a bunch of good books about teaching, learning, cognition, technology, etc., that really work for me.
Maybe they’ll work for you too, so browse away.
Maybe they’ll work for you too, so browse away.
Glossary
Teachers can sound really smart, right? I think a lot of it has to do with the jargon and buzzwords that suffuse the field of education.
So, since I feel dumb when others throw around jargon, I thought we could use a little glossary to keep up with Jones’, so to speak. There is no implicit message in the choice of terms or names included in the glossary; items just get added when an interesting name or subject pops up in conversation. Let me know if you want a term included or think a description needs some editing … limited pride of authorship here.
So, since I feel dumb when others throw around jargon, I thought we could use a little glossary to keep up with Jones’, so to speak. There is no implicit message in the choice of terms or names included in the glossary; items just get added when an interesting name or subject pops up in conversation. Let me know if you want a term included or think a description needs some editing … limited pride of authorship here.