NEE Resources

Unit of Instruction Resources

 

How to Make Your Questions Essential

 

A Giant List of Really Good Essential Questions

 

38 Prompts Merging Reflective Thinking with Bloom's Taxonomy

 

3 Ways of Getting Student Feedback to Improve Your Teaching

 

The 40 Reflection Questions

 

Wheel of Instructional Objectives

 

Using Technology to Make Essential Questions an Essential Part of Your Instruction

 

Promoting Student Self-Assessment

 

15 Great Tools for Lesson Planning


Professional Development Plan Resources

 

8 tips for Reaching Out to Parents

 

27 Ways to Increase Family Involvement in the Classroom

 


Standard One:  Content knowledge and perspectives aligned with appropriate instruction.


Indicator 1.1:  Content knowledge and academic language

 

Doing It Differently: Tips for Teaching Vocabulary

 

8 Strategies for Teaching Academic Language

 

4 Good Visual Dictionaries for Teachers and Students

 

10 Dos and Don'ts for Teaching Vocabulary in Any Content Area

 

Haiku DeckFree App Builds Academic Vocabulary

 

Response: Many Ways To Help Students Develop Academic Vocabulary

 

Curriculum Redesign



Indicator 1.2:  Cognitively engaging students in subject matter – deep thinking

 

Constructivism


Inquiry-Based Learning

 


Standard Two:  Understanding and Encouraging Student Learning, Grown and Development


Indicator 2.2:  Sets and monitors student goals.

 

Teaching and Modeling Persistence: Setting Goals


Indicator 2.4:  Meeting the needs of every student 

 

Addressing Our Needs: Maslow Comes to Life for Educators and Students

 

Creating More Compassionate Classrooms

 

Simple Ways to Cultivate Happiness in Schools

 

Emotion is What Makes Students Tick

 

Two Helpful Resources on Social Emotional Learning

 

10 Things Your Students Need From You

 

The Emotional Atmosphere of a Classroom (video)

 

Five Keys to Successful Social and Emotional Learning


 


Standard Four:  Teaching for Critical Thinking


Indicator 4.1:  Instructional strategies leading to student problem solving and critical thinking

 

Bloom's Taxonomy: Teacher Planning Kit 

 

10 Team-Building Games That Promote Critical Thinking

 

Using Webb's Depth of Knowledge to Increase Rigor

 

Bloom's Critical Thinking Questions to use in Class

 

The Importance of Asking Questions to Promote Higher-Order Competencies

 

Tons of Resources for Teaching Critical Thinking to Your Students

 

Teaching Strategies to Promote Critical Thinking

 

4 Steps to Making Rigorous Discussion a Routine

 

Striving for Higher-Order Thinking and Depth of Knowledge


Critical Thinking Via Infographics

 

General Principles for Assessing Higher-Order Thinking

 

Three Steps to Critical Thinking

 

Planning for Critical Thinking : A 5-Step Model

 

5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students


Bloom's Taxonomy Apps - A Great Resource Section for Teachers

 

Q & A Collections:  Instructional Strategies

 

Critical Thinking on the Web

 

Resources and Downloads for Teaching Critical Thinking

 

249 Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs for Critical Thinking

 

Useful Web Tools to Integrate Digital Blooms Taxonomy into Your Teaching

 

Interesting Graphic Featuring 30+ iPad Apps for Bloom's Taxonomy

 

Teaching Students to Dig Deeper

 

10 Practical Ideas for Better Project-Based Learning in Your Classroom

 

25 Top Concept-Mapping Tools for Visual Learning

 

What is Project Based Learning (PBL)?

 

10 of the Best Free Curriculum Resources for Teachers

 

4 Teaching Tips for More Effective Direct Instruction

 

How to Create a Rubric that Does What You Want It To

 

The Best Resources for Helping Teachers use Bloom's Taxonomy in the Classroom

 

The Differentiator

 

Inquiry Charts

 

I-Search Papers

 

Socratic Seminars

 

Power My Learning


Indicator 4.2: Appropriate use of instructional Resources to enhance student learning

 

COMMONLIT is a collection of poems, short stories, news articles, historical documents, and literature for classrooms.

 

cK-12 Website for Teacher Resources

 

8 Engaging Ways to use Technology in the Classroom to Create Lessons That Aren't Boring

 

Wonderful Resources to Integrate Technology in Your Classroom

 

Purpose Games - Create Online Review Games

 

This is How to Automatically Grade Quizzes Using Google Forms

 

6 Free Online Resources for Primary Source Documents

 

Teachers' Favored Web 2.0 Tools

 

App Suggestions for Learning Activities in BYOD Classrooms

 

A Handy Guide to Everything Teachers Need to Know about Edmodo

 

Resources for the iPad

 

5 Tools for Creating Your Own Infographics

 

15 Excellent Apps for Learning

 

11 Must Have iPad Apps for Teachers

 

A Good iPad Fluency Graphic for Teachers

 

7 Wonderful Google Docs Tutorials for Teachers

 

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology

 

80 Interesting Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom

 

46 Tools to Make Infographics in the Classroom


Indicator 4.3: Cooperative Learning

 

10 Dos and Don'ts for Group Work & Student Grouping

 

Try Azendoo to Organize Group Projects

 


Standard Five:  Creating a Positive Classroom Learning Environment


Indicator 5.1:  Motivating and engaging students

 

27 Ways to Promote Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom

 

Strategies for Helping Students Motivate Themselves

 

7 Simple Ways You Can Help Students Pay Attention In A Traditional Classroom 

 

Are You Not Entertained? How to Build a Dynamic Lecture

 

"Why Do We Need to Learn This?"

 

Connecting with Students on the Fringes

 

Attention, Teachers! Why Students are Bored

 

10 Ways to Get Students Engaged

 

A Must See Visual Featuring the 5 Levels of Student Management

 

Good Time: 4 Ways to Reawaken Student Engagement

 

Six Strategies that Motivate ALL Students to Participate

 

5 Ways to Open Up Learning & Engage Students

 

Five Key Strategies to Get/Keep Kids Engaged at School

 

Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement

 

Cracking the Behavior Code

 

The Definition of Intrinsic Motivation

 

The 6 Key Drivers of Student Engagement

 

Student Debate Deepens Thinking and Engagement

 

Question & Answer Collection on Student Motivation

 

My Best Posts on Motivating Students

 

3 Easy Ways to Engage Students with Technology

 

25 Tricks to Improve a Boring Lesson for Improved Student Engagement  

 

Activity Speaks Louder than Words: Improving Student Engagement

 

How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class



Indicator 5.2:  Managing time, space, transitions, and activities

 

New Teachers: Classroom-Management Fundamentals

 

How to Begin Each Day on the Right Classroom Management Foot

 

Refocusing Students: How to Get Their Attention Back

 

14 Teacher-Recommended Classroom Management Apps

 

The Best Questions to Use for Class Closing Activities--What Are Yours?

 

Bell Ringer Exercises



Indicator 5.3b:  Establishes a secure teacher-child relationship

 

Do's and Don'ts of Classroom Management: Your 25 Best Tips

 

Pinterest: Classroom Management Tips

 

Classroom Management: The Intervention Two-Step

 

27 Classroom Management Strategies to Keep Things Fresh

 

4 Timeless Elements of Strong Student-Teacher Relationships

 

7 Tips for Better Classroom Management

 

Inside Classroom Management: Ideas and Solutions

 

Watch a Classroom Management Expert

 

Q & A Collections:  Classroom Management Advice

 

60 Ways to Connect with Your Students

 

Do You Like Your Teacher?

 

Classroom Management Strategies for Difficult Students:  Promoting Change Through  Relationships

 

A Really, Really Well-Written Set of Classroom Rules

 

Classroom Management Strategy: Here are Three Things I Want. What are Three Things You Want?

 

More Positive, Not Punitive, Classroom Management Tips

 

8 Classroom Management Tips from Google

 


Standard Seven:  Use of Student Assessment Data to Analyze and Modify Instruction


Indicator 7.4:  Effect of instruction on individual/class learning – formative assessment


 

10 Fun-Filled Formative Assessment Ideas

 

10 Exit Slip Prompts that Will Work for Any Class

 

8 Frequent Sources of Formative Assessment Data

 

Formative Assessment: The Right Question at the Right Time

 

12 Steps to Creating a Successful Redo and Retake Policy

 

5 Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools

 

5 Strategies for Formative Assessment

 

A Visual Chart on Summative VS Formative Assessment

 

Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding

 

Do You Check for Understanding Often Enough with Students?

 

Creating a Formative Assessment System

 

Exit Slips

 

Quiz Socket- A Simple Feedback Tool for Teachers and Students

 

22 Easy Formative Assessment Techniques for Measuring Student Learning

 

Hit the Mark with Digital Media Exit Cards

 

Rethinking Whole Class Discussion

 

Create Multimedia Presentations and Quizzes in Edmodo

 

10 Tools for Creating Class Puzzles and Quizzes

 

5 Great New Web Tools For Creating

 

EQuizShow: An application which allows teachers to create a quiz show to help students prepare for exams or assessments

 

Formative Assessments Are Easier Than You Think!

 

26 Teacher Tools to Create Online Assessments

 

12 Strategies for Critical Assessment

 

The Best Resources for Learning About Formative Assessment

 

How to Create a Test That Grades Itself Using Google Forms

 

Designing Assessment Using the Power of Google Forms

 

10 Assessments You Can Perform In 90 Seconds