This lesson plan is designed to enhance understanding and awareness of essential soft skills and employability skills for success in the workplace.
Even when you are doing a job which you don’t intend to stay in forever, you’re building your employability skills. Employability skills are those skills which are transferable to other careers and which may help you to advance in your career. These could be academic skills like communication and basic math skills, or they may be personal characteristics such as critical thinking skills, promptness, and adaptability. In this 8th grade Job Skills lesson, students will investigate the skills and personal characteristics which are transferable from one occupation to another.
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires state accountability systems to include indicators of “school quality and student success” along with indicators of academic outcomes. The new law provides an important opportunity for states to broaden the definition of student success to include measures of students’ social-emotional, as well as academic, development. This brief explains ways schools and districts can embed social emotional learning in the context of ESSA accountability. Link to resource: https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/product-files/Social_Emotional_Learning_New_Accountability_REPORT.pdf
One of the greatest frustrations mentioned by many teachers is that their students are often not motivated to learn. Teachers quickly come to recognize the warning signs of poor motivation in their classroom: students put little effort into homework and classwork assignments, slump in their seats and fail to participate in class discussion, or even become confrontational toward the teacher when asked about an overdue assignment. One common method for building motivation is to tie student academic performance and classroom participation to specific rewards or privileges. Critics of reward systems note, however, that they can be expensive and cumbersome to administer and may lead the student to engage in academics only when there is an outside 'payoff.' While there is no magic formula for motivating students, the creative teacher can sometimes encourage student investment in learning in ways that do not require use of formal reward systems.
The purpose of this unit is to provide students with an understanding of the earth’s energy budget and how energy enters and leaves the earths’ atmosphere in a supportive environment to English language learners. My unit Energy and Earth’s Climate for English Language Learners will focus on the science around how energy affects earth’s climate.
It is important for students to learn about climate change not just because it is in the curriculum but because it will greatly affect their generation and the generations of students to come. All students including the ELLs should have the opportunity to learn about relevant environmental issues of their time in a way that they can understand.
In this introduction to light energy, students learn about reflection and refraction as they learn that light travels in wave form. Through hands-on activities, they see how prisms, magnifying glasses and polarized lenses work. They also gain an understanding of the colors of the rainbow as the visible spectrum, each color corresponding to a different wavelength.
This is the template used by MAPS educators to create math lessons for OER.
This is the template used by MAPS educators to create math lessons for OER.
Engage NY Module 4, Lesson 3 with additional Number Talk
Created by Olivia Kranz
This resource provides all of the resources that accompany the Engaged Educators Coalition's "Selecting Learner-Centered Resources" Webinar Eight.
This resource provides all of the resources that accompany the Engaged Educators Coalition's "Selecting Learner-Centered Resources" Webinar Five.
This resource provides all of the resources that accompany the Engaged Educators Coalition's "Selecting Learner-Centered Resources" Webinar Four.
This resource provides all of the resources that accompany the Engaged Educators Coalition's "Selecting Learner-Centered Resources" Webinar One.
This resource provides all of the resources that accompany the Engaged Educators Coalition's "Selecting Learner-Centered Resources" Webinar Seven.
This resource provides all of the resources that accompany the Engaged Educators Coalition's "Selecting Learner-Centered Resources" Webinar Six.
This resource provides all of the resources that accompany the Engaged Educators Coalition's "Selecting Learner-Centered Resources" Webinar Three.
This resource provides all of the resources that accompany the Engaged Educators Coalition's "Selecting Learner-Centered Resources" Webinar Two.
An essential component of starting a new charter school is engaging stakeholders in the design of the school. Engaging all stakeholders early on helps facilitate the support needed to drive the mission and vision of the school.
A list of sites that offer engineering ideas for teacher and student use. Offers a variety of lessons, units and/or activities at all levels.
This video collection features strategies for comprehensive literacy instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities. The purpose of the collection is to support educators and families in understanding how all students can learn and make progress in Common Core English Language Arts standards.
In each video, classroom educators demonstrate research-based instructional strategies in literacy, language and communication including the use of augmentative and alternative communication systems. The videos feature students in both inclusive general education classrooms and self-contained settings.