“Teacher resources and teacher professional development programming across the curriculum”
The resource www.learner.org is an invaluable resource for the teacher who constantly wants to grow. This resource will help teachers who want to develop best practices and who want to be really effective in helping their students grow as learners.
Teachers can watch hours and hours of free workshops and professional development videos to help them in many different areas. There are videos for any discipline and subject area and include current teaching practices. It’s a valuable resource for a teacher that is looking to implement new strategies but don’t really know how they should look in the classroom. Watching these videos allows teachers a look into how these strategies are used in the classroom.
I personally enjoyed watching a video about the teacher as a writer. During the Spring semester I took a class that strongly encouraged writing teachers to view themselves as writers. Watching videos on www.learner.org has allowed me to see teachers as writers in the classroom. The videos take what teachers may have known from reading educational books and allow us to view these concepts in action.
This website is also really helpful for teachers that teach a content area that isn’t their first choice. For example, last year I taught math in a contained classroom, but hadn’t ever taught math before. This website would have been a great resource for me to know how to best teach math.
The website is practical and user-friendly; you can search the disciplines by grade levels. You can also learn and keep up on current issues in areas such as assessment. This website would be useful for teachers to self-assess their own teaching. By looking through the sections for the disciplines that you teach you can ensure that you are using best practices in your teaching and evaluate yourself as a teacher.
