Useful Article: Technology tips for teachers

Here's a link to a useful article on technology apps for teachers -

Mashable

Secondary Level EFL

Have a look at this videos from the University of Oregon - Shaping the way we teach English: Secondary EFL. It's the first part of the series - the rest can also be found on YouTube -

Jeremy Harmer

Jeremy Harmer is famous as a teacher trainer and author. Why not visit his website? - Jeremy Harmer.

It includes audio and video clips and pdf files from presentations.

Here's a link to a video of Jeremy giving a talk on Motivating the Unmotivated

Behaviour Quick Fixes

Teachers.tv has a series of short videos offering quick tips on how to tackle common behaviour issues.

Behaviour



The issues dealt with are -

Can't Concentrate
Chaotic Start
Fighting
High Spirits
Disagreements
Disruptiveness
Transitions
Off Task
Anger

Here are links to full videos -

Teaching with Cowley - Starting Over
Primary Special Schools - Tackling Challenging Behaviour
Primary Management - Transactional Analysis
Behaving with Cowley - Out of the Classroom
Behaving with Cowley - Group Work

Edutopia

There are some really useful resources on the George Lucas Educational Foundation website Edutopia.

For example, there are some videos where teachers offer tips for better classroom management.

Handshake Q&A

Quieting the Classroom

IH DoS Conference 2009

Here are the slides from my presentation -

Teachers TV

Teachers TV continues to grow. For those of you interested in behaviour issues have a look at their behaviour matters page.

NTTI

The National Institute of Teacher Training has lots of useful resources on its website www.thirteen.org

The Concept to Classroom Workshop series is particularly interesting - The topics include

Why the Net? An interactive tool for the classroom

WebQuests

Tapping into Multiple Intelligences

Assessment, Evaluation and Curriculum Redesign

The workshops include mini-videos, quizzes, buzzwords, etc...

Suite 101.com

Suite101.com offers lots of advice for pre-service teachers.

Here are some of their articles on classroom management and motivation:

Motivating Students

How to motivate students

Classroom Management Tips

There are loads of articles on this useful site.