Elevate My Teaching
Teaching is more than conveying content matter to students. Quality teaching should inspire your students to explore enduring questions, have the courage to try hard things and even occasionally fail, and gain the desire to pursue lifelong learning.
Find guides to using tools such as Canvas, Zoom Panopto, and Camtasia. Also find guides to teaching online or in NCSSM Connect.
Video your lectures so you can spend more classroom time guiding your students toward their goals.
Kim Preshoff presents a curated collection of school-friendly videos and learning resources that can be turned into lessons using TED-Ed's lesson creator.
Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of "pseudo-teaching" to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. In a fun and personal talk, Musallam gives 3 rules to spark imagination and learning, and get students excited about how the world works.
