Teacher Tools

This week, we explored Pear Deck, which is a popular online platform that allows teachers to create interactive content, like slide shows, to better engage every student in the classroom. It’s very user-friendly and robust, making Pear Deck a great way to help teachers, too! Keep reading to learn more about it and how to use it in the classroom.

With Socrative, teachers can create quick quizzes and assessments that cover the key points of the material discussed in class. It’s a great way to leverage technology to check for understanding of key terms and concepts and it’s really easy to use! Both teachers and students can create an account and teachers can create questions very quickly.

As part of our Rising Resources blog series, we’re taking a look at some of the world’s most helpful resources for educators and telling you what you need to know. For this week’s blog, we checked out a resource called TeAch-nology. Essentially, TeAch-nology is a service that provides educators with thousands of resources that make everything easier.

Wouldn’t it be great if teachers could make more money than they do? Well, until that happens, there are, in fact, some ways they can do just that, including using the site that’s the subject of this Rising Resources blog, Teachers Pay Teachers! There’s no doubt that TPT has become a staple in the lives of many of today’s educators

Kinetic City is a web-based science program that teaches a variety of science concepts via challenges, games, and activities. The theme of the program is “knowledge-eating viruses destroying our world’s science” with the solution being to complete the games and projects to “beat the bugs and set things right.”

Codecademy has top-notch online coding classes for students of all ages and skill levels. With structured curriculum and immediate feedback, it’s no surprise that 45 million students use Codecademy for CS education. Their hook is if you can read, you can code, which underscores the importance of coding and eases students’ minds.

This week as part of our Rising Resources blog, we’re introducing you to the highly teacher-oriented site, You for Youth. This website was created for educators to discover the resources and gain the knowledge they need to manage their 21st CCLC (century community learning center) program and make it the best after school experience possible.

We hope you have been enjoying our Rising Resources blog series so far and we’re back with a new installment today! Each week, we will take a look at an online STEM resource teachers can use to better their instruction with hands-on opportunities. In this article, we’re exploring the wonders of Nearpod.

Due to adjusting to her new position at Emerson, Adler was unable to take full advantage of this new Canvas system. “Many of my students want to be able to access assignments at the time and place of their choosing—rather than having to write it down in class or search their inbox for my weekly assignment emails. I totally get

Educators and parents both know that many skills can be lost between June and August if students are “checked out” of school mode. Like at most schools, my administration requires us to assign work for the summer-usually a packet of reading assignments, math problems, and a math project.