Greetings from the Learning Bridges Team!
We want to provide YOU with FREE resources
and focus on special opportunities that might be helpful for your school improvement efforts.
We invite you to print the resources
that you can use in your classroom or school. We also hope you will share the newsletter
with your colleagues so that they might also receive the FREE resources. When it
is possible, we will connect the resources to your
state's content standards - whether those are
research-based instructional strategies/interventions or parent
activities.
We will feature one of the powerful online courses, an instructor, and a teaching
resource - all connected to your state standards and assessments.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
When you try an instructional strategy, share a parent activity with parents, complete
online professional development, or use one of the teaching resources, we hope you
will come back and share your
thoughts with us online. Read what other teachers have said, too!
We invite you to join our team as a Bridge to a New Way of Teaching and Learning!
Greetings from the Learning Bridges Team!
We want to provide YOU with FREE resources and focus on special opportunities that might be helpful for your school improvement efforts.
We invite you to print the resources that you can use in your classroom or school. We also hope you will share the newsletter with your colleagues so that they might also receive the FREE resources. When it is possible, we will connect the resources to your state's content standards - whether those are research-based instructional strategies/interventions or parent activities.
We will feature one of the powerful online courses, an instructor, and a teaching resource - all connected to your state standards and assessments.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
When you try an instructional strategy, share a parent activity with parents, complete online professional development, or use one of the teaching resources, we hope you will come back and share your thoughts with us online. Read what other teachers have said, too!
We invite you to join our team as a Bridge to a New Way of Teaching and Learning!
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Featured Online Class - EDCI 607E Using Technology for Teaching and Learning
For: Classroom Teachers K - 12 (All Grades and/or Subjects), Special Education, Title I, Gifted and Talented, ELLTeachers, Culturally Diverse, Mentors, Coaches
Using Technology for Teaching and Learning is focused on providing participants with information and practice that will lead to self-awareness and classroom implementation of effective strategies for the use of technology. This course is designed to provide teachers of students (at any grade level and of any subject) ways to use current technologies effectively in their classroom. This course will go beyond the usual technology applications - word processing, spreadsheet, multimedia presentation, and web searching - to include the multifaceted aspects of the "new" Web 2.0. Learners will not only use a variety of technological applications, but will also create instructional lessons for their classrooms.
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FREE Instructional Strategy - Literary Response and Analysis
For: Classroom Teachers in Grades 3 - 12, Mentors, Coaches, Special Education, Title I, ELL Teachers, Gifted and Talented
Content: Language Arts - Literary Response and Analysis
Standard: Grade 3: Determine what characters are like by what they say or do and by how the author or illustrator portrays them.
Standard: Grade 6: Analyze the effect of the qualities of the character (e.g., courage or cowardice, ambition or laziness) on the plot and the resolution of the conflict.
Standard: Grades 9 - 10 Determine characters' traits by what the characters say about themselves in narration, dialogue, dramatic monologue, and soliloquy.
Character Quotations is a strategy that uses representative quotations by a person as a means of developing greater insight into that person. It can be used to introduce characters in fictional literature, to determine what characters are like by what they say or do, and to show the devices that the author uses to portray them in literature. It is a wonderful way to help students to become aware of how they make inferences and generalizations.
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FREE Parent Activity - Students understand the place value of whole numbers
Standard: Students understand the place value of whole numbers
The month of August is a great time to reinforce basis math concepts with your children before school begins. One very important skill is that of recognizing and understanding place value.
Place value assists in determining the value of numbers. We show numbers that are larger than 9 by using place value. In other words, the value of a number (digit) is determined by its place within that number. In our system (which is a base-10 system), each place has a value. This value is 10 times the value of the place immediately to its right.
A FREE Parent Activity for you to send home with your students to engage parents with their child's learning in support of your classroom instruction.
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Featured Instructor - Bili Zehner
Hello! My name is Bili Zehner. I have been instructing for Learning Bridges since January 2006 and authored two courses last year: "How the Brain Learns" and "Motivating Students".
I taught high school English for five years and worked with students in all grades (9-12). My favorite experience was teaching a group of students for 3 consecutive years (9, 10, 11). It was a wonderful opportunity to build relationships and to examine the growth of each student over a longer period of time.
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Featured Teaching Resource - Empowering Students With Technology
Empowering Students With Technology
Alan November
Empowering Students With Technology will energize the classroom with exciting ideas that will spark students' interest and rekindle the thrill of teaching. Connect content to real life through new resources and learning relationships that are available through technology. Learning adventures powered by technology, provide practical lesson ideas, and real-life stories demonstrate not only what is possible but also what technology is already accomplishing in classrooms. Fifty Web sites to support great teaching and learning are also included.
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Discussion Topic - What do YOU think?
When people think of school, the image that comes to mind are the buildings, the classes, the activities, the books and lessons, the students and teachers. But beyond all that is the invisible school - the billions of neuronal patterns that each of us is carrying around inside our heads. How we think about school. How we feel about each other. The electromagnetic fields that each of us is sending and receiving. This is the invisible school.
What is your experience with the Invisible School?
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