Teaching – Miscellaneous Resources

CASEL

CASEL is the “Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning”. They offer information and resources for schools that want to implement SEL programs. One place to start would be their introductory Fundamentals of SEL page.

CHARACTER COUNTS!

Includes information a “How To Get Started” section, discussion forum, online resources, suggested reading, materials to order, and more.

Character.org: The Character Education Partnership

Resources for character education programs including free online quarterly newsletter, publications for ordering, and a database of links searchable by either organization or publication definitions.

Edutopia: Bullying Prevention

Explore how parents, educators, students, and communities can work together to address the causes and effects of bullying and cyberbullying.

Edutopia: Social and Emotional Learning

Find and share resources for creating a healthy school culture by helping students develop skills to manage their emotions, resolve conflicts, and make responsible decisions.

Good Character.com

Character Education and Social Emotional Learning: Curriculum, Lesson Plans, Activities, Programs & Resources

Learning for Justice

Learning for Justice offers a magazine, podcasts, reports, lesson plans, and further materials for educators interested in promoting diversity and equity in the classroom. (Formerly ‘Teaching Tolerance’)

Positive Emotions in the Classroom: Tips for Boosting Curiosity, Hope, and Belonging

Ultimately, when teachers and students have so much to gain and nothing to lose, there is good reason to focus on increasing positive emotions in the classroom. To get started, try these strategies to boost curiosity, hope, and belonging.

Social-Emotional Learning: Why It Matters and How to Foster It

Figuring out how and when to teach and assess SEL skills, however, can be daunting to even the most seasoned educator. So we’ve created this guide to social-emotional learning, packing it full of questions to consider and techniques to try.

Why Social-Emotional Learning Is Suddenly in the Spotlight

Christina Cipriano, the director of research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a research scientist at the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine…. broke down for us what SEL is, where it comes and how it works. EdSurge (May 2019)

Education Oasis

A number of free graphic organizers in PDF format.

ESIFC: Assessments

Dozens of editable graphic organizers in Word format from the Empire State Information Fluency Continuum. The organizers are arranged by grade but can also be accessed by standard.

Freeology

Over 100 free, printable graphic organizers for a wide variety of topics. In PDF format.

National Geographic

About two dozen graphic organizers in PDF format.

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Brains remember more easily with drawings than written notes

That was the finding of a recent Canadian study, which supports previous research showing that drawing aids memory better than writing notes or than picturing something in your mind or looking at related images. Researchers say rendering images on paper incorporates multiple ways of representing the information — with visual, spatial, verbal, semantic and motor skills.

How Sketchnoting Can Help with ‘Zoom Fatigue,’ Student Agency and Building Relationships

Sketchnoting doesn’t just lead to gains in keeping students’ attention, it’s a useful way for learners to organize and retain information.

Is student note-taking relevant in classes today?

Discusses why of note-taking, different kinds of notes, reasons for students to take notes, and different methods of taking and studying with notes.

Note-taking: A Research Roundup

This article and podcast looks at research into note-taking and note-taking best practices.

Sketchnoting in the classroom: 12 ways to get started

Sketchnoting, or visual note-taking, can transform those doodles into a tool that helps our students deepen their understanding of a concept. It’s a fun and brain-friendly way to organize ideas visually and makes them easy to remember.

Build it Together: Co-Constructing Success Criteria with Students

[R]ather than having the teacher be the only one who decides what constitutes good work, have the students contribute as well, and make them part of that process from the very beginning.

Building Better Rubrics: Empowering Learners Through Effective Rubric Design

Clear expectations positively impact the students’ feelings of competence or confidence in their ability to complete a task, which can motivate them to put in their best effort. … The consistent use of rubrics can help to promote higher levels of self-awareness, a culture of learning and growth, and ensure that assessments are accurate, transparent, and meaningful.

Creating and Using Rubrics for Assessment

Links to dozens of pre-made rubrics to use or adapt via the University of Wisconsin.

Google: Create or reuse a rubric for an assignment

In Classroom, you can create, reuse and grade with rubrics for individual assignments. You can also export rubrics to share them with other teachers. You can give feedback with scored or unscored rubrics. If a rubric is scored, students see their scores when you return their assignments.

Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything: Assessment and Rubrics

Long set of subject-organized links to various kinds of rubrics and rubric-builders, including links to Common Core aligned rubrics.

Know Your Terms: Holistic, Analytic, and Single-Point Rubrics

Describes the different kinds of rubrics and the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Rubric Repair: 5 Changes That Get Results

…[A] well-designed rubric can be more than just an evaluation tool. For the teacher, it can clarify expectations… For the learner, knowing what is expected from the start along with clear indicators of progress provides an effective means to self-assess… These five guidelines will help.

RubiStar: Create Rubrics for your Project-Based-Learning Activities

RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.

Teacher Planet: Rubrics for Teachers

Lists rubrics by topic and level, plus articles on building and using rubrics, and rubric generators. Includes rubrics on technology and behavior as well as the usual school subjects.