K-12 Subject Matter Specific Support Resources
As higher education campuses across the country continue to mobilize to deliver face-to-face programs in a virtual synchronous setting, local K-12 schools are also being faced with the same issue. Academic Partnerships would like to help school districts with strategies for online instruction. These resources detail how teachers and administrators can leverage new and existing tools to help speed the process of virtual delivery and also help students so they can be successful in an online class.
This page will be updated regularly to include new information.
To Access the K-12 Just-in-Time Orientation:
- Go to the module
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- Username: K12Help
- Password: OnlineNow
- To begin, you will click on K-12 Online Teaching Best Practices – Moving Online Quickly Edition
- If you need assistance logging into Canvas, please email [email protected]
Resources
Tips and Tools for Teachers and Administrators – Virtual Delivery
Tips and Tools for Students – Participating in Virtual Coursework
Provider: Annenberg Learner
Title: Professional Development
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
K-12 educators, students, and lifelong learners may access Annenberg Learner resources for free at Learner.org. When on the website you can select “professional development” or “classroom” and access resources for either or both by subject area.
Provider: ACT
Title: ACT Training for K-12 Professionals
Audience: Educational Leadership (Superintendents, Principals, etc.)
Category: Professional Development
ACT training events provide the opportunity to:
- Learn strategies that are immediately useful in the classroom
- Examine new ways to use ACT data when counseling students
- Make connections between curriculum and college and career readiness
Provider: PBS TeacherLine
Title: Professional Development from America’s #1 Trusted Educational Media Brand
Audience: K -12 Teachers with a Focus on K-3
Category: Professional Development
There are both facilitated courses for graduated credit and self-paced courses for certificates available. PBS TeacherLine offers courses that can inspire, educate, and reinvigorate your teaching strategies! PBS TeacherLine offers self-paced courses typically require 1.5 to 4 hours of study.
Provider: Families In Schools
Title: Staff Professional Development
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
Families In Schools has developed an array of tools and trainings that help educational institutions, and community based organization, better work with and partner with families.
Provider: TED Talks Education by Apple
Title: TED Education
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
What should future schools look like? How do brains learn? Some of the world’s greatest educators, researchers, and community leaders share their stories and visions onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world
Provider: ALISON
Title: Teaching and Training Professionals Courses
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
These free online teaching and training professionals courses will teach you how to effectively instruct and understand the needs of a variety of learners. Assembled with many different types of student in mind, this page contains courses designed to teach you how you can best instruct others, be they students with special needs, working professionals, or even other teachers!
Provider: edX-K12
Title: K- 12 Courses
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
Take free online K12 education courses to build your skills and advance your career. Take courses about K12 education and other in-demand topics from top universities and institutions around the world on edX.
Provider: edWeb.net
Title: Free Education Webinars
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
It offers free Webinars. You can ioin live or receive a link to the recording and then you will earn a certificate in curriculum and instruction.
Provider: Intel
Title: Education Teaching Tools and Resources
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
On-going professional development is a critical factor in education transformation. For technology implementations to be successful, teachers need the skills to make effective use of the technology in the classroom. Intel’s teacher professional development courses help teachers move towards mastering those skills, improving teaching and learning.
Provider: DePaul College of Education
Title: `K-12 Online Teaching Resources
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development and Teaching Resources
Webinars on teaching online in all subject areas to make sure students are engaged and students are effectively being assessed.
Also included are various links divided by subject area for resources for teaching
Provider: Acer for Education
Title: Remote Learning: a comparison among top collaboration tools
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
A comparison for collaboration tools
Provider: AALAS
Title: RTOL
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
A guide for the rapid transition to online providing a step by step guide and distill the most essential needs.
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
There are instructional resources by subject provided but also information on online pedagogy to help teachers move to online
Provider: NYC Department of Education
Title: Learn at Home
Audience: K-12 All Subject Areas
Category: Professional Development
Information for parents and teachers about learning at home.
Provider: Understanding Language website by Stanford
Title: Understanding Language
Audience: K-12 ELA
Category: Professional Development
Professional development courses and resources for language teachers.
Provider: Achieve 3000
Title: Achieve3000 Literacy at Home Digital
Audience: K-12 ELA
Category: Professional Development
Log in any time and read great articles and stories and then complete activities that will help you build your skills.
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 ELA
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: Read Write Think
Title: ReadWriteThink
Audience: K-12 ELA
Category: Teaching Resources
This website provides classroom resources, professional development, videos, and parent resources for reading and language.
Provider: Midnight Music
Title: Free Music Tech Professional Development
Audience: K-12 Music
Category: Professional Development
A list of courses, most of which are free, to gain a professional development certificate for music educators.
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 Arts
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: The Art Assignment
Title: Assignments
Audience: K-12 Arts
Category: Teaching Resources
Educational video series that explores art and art history through the various lenses. Co-production of PBS Digital Studios and Complexly.
Provider: The Kennedy Center
Title: Lessons & Activities
Audience: K-12 Arts
Category: Teaching Resources
Arts-centered, standards-based resources for in and out of school. Filter content by grade, arts subject, and duration.
Provider: Google
Title: Arts & Culture
Audience: K-12 Arts
Category: Teaching Resources
Online platform for over 2000 museums and archives. Contains associated activities as well. Also has an available app.
Provider: Save the Music Foundation
Title: Music Education Resources
Audience: K-12 Music
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for remote teaching and learning, online education, and virtual concerts and tours.
Provider: Education Week
Title: Math Webinars
Audience: K-12 Math
Category: Professional Development
Education Week includes a collection of free webinars on mathematics and professional development resources for teachers.
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 Math
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: Share My Lesson
Title: Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month
Audience: K-12 Math
Category: Teaching Resources
This resource contains lesson plans, resources, webinars, and activities on math, financial literacy, and statistics. This resource page was created during April 2020.
Provider: Math Games
Title: Math Games
Audience: K-8 Math
Category: Teaching Resources
Free math games for skill practice. Games available for a variety of skill sets. Instructors can also create PDF worksheets from the content.
Provider: Desmos
Title: Desmos Teacher Classroom Activities
Audience: 7-12 Math
Category: Teaching Resources
A digital collection of free math activities for teachers and students. Contains videos and interactive components.
Provider: Harvard
Title: Online Science Courses
Audience: K-12 Science
Category: Professional Development
Expand your horizons and enroll in one of hundreds of free, credit or open certificate science courses through Harvard University’s Online Learning program.
Provider: edX Science
Title: edX
Audience: K-12 Science
Category: Professional Development and Teaching Resources
Science is one of the most popular subjects on edX and online courses range from beginner to advanced levels. Areas of study include neuroscience, genotyping, DNA methylation, innovations in environmental science, modern astrophysics and more from top universities and institutions worldwide.
Provider: MIT Open CourseWare
Title: Open Courses
Audience: K-12 Science
Category: Professional Development
It offers a variety of free online science courses
Provider: American Chemical Society
Title: Chemistry Education Resources
Audience: K-12 Chemistry
Category: Teaching Resources
Lesson plans, classroom resources, and activities for chemistry at home
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 Science
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: PBS Learning Media
Title: Bring the World to Your Classroom
Audience: K-12 STEM
Category: Teaching Resources
PBS curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for PD in STEM.
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 STEM
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: The Concord Consortium
Title: STEM Resource Finder
Audience: K -12 STEM and Science and Math
Category: Teaching Resources
Accurate models and activities that can be filtered by type and grade. Contains physics, chemistry, life science, engineering, earth & space, and mathematics examples.
Provider: Science Buddies
Title: STEM Activities for Kids
Audience: K-6 STEM
Category: Teaching Resources
Explore experiments, engineering challenges, and demonstrations.
Provider: Jason Learning
Title: Free Webinars for Educators
Audience: K-12 STEM
Category: Professional Development
Free webinars offered to teachers and administrators about teaching STEM at a distance.
Provider: National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
Title: NCSS Institutes and Webinars
Audience: K-12 Social Studies
Category: Professional Development
NCSS provides webinars to some of the best educational programming available to the social studies professional
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 Social Studies
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: Britannica Digital Learning
Title: Britannica Launch Packs Social Studies
Audience: High School Social Studies
Category: Teaching Resources
Free, emergency support and virtual-learning classroom resources for Social Studies
Provider: Big History Project
Title: Big History Project
Audience: K-12 Social Studies
Category: Teaching Resources
Free, online social studies course that emphasizes skill development. Online professional development and a teacher community is also available.
Provider: The National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET)
Title: PDP – Professional Development Courses
Audience: K-12 Special Education
Category: Professional Development
This site provides a selection of PDP Courses, Video Lectures, and PowerPoint Presentation
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K-12 Special Education
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Be sure to check out “Supporting Students with Disabilities”
Provider: NYC Department of Education
Title: Specialized Instruction and Student Supports
Audience: K-12 Special Education
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources designed to support children at home including information on assistive technology and therapy supports for physical, speech, and motor skills.
Provider: Coursera
Title: Arizona State University TESOL Professional Certificate
Audience: K-12 TESOL
Category: Professional Development
“This course is designed for anyone who wants to teach English anywhere in the world. If you want to become a teacher, polish your teaching skills, or add a credential to your resume, this is the course for you! Get certified by a nationally-ranked university.”
Provider: U Texas
Title: Foreign Language Teaching Methods
Audience: Foreign Language Teachers
Category: Professional Development
The website provides professional development learning modules for foreign language instruction at the high-school level
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: Foreign Language Teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: Colorín Colorado!
Title: Resource Library
Audience: ELL Teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
Guides and toolkits, reading tip sheets for parents/educators, ELL resources from A-Z, the DOE English Learner Tool Kit, and a FAQ page about teaching English Language Learners
Provider: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Title: Resources for Continuous education during school closures
Audience: K- 12 PE and Health teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources are provided for all subject areas and divided by grade bands. The subject areas each have a helpful chart indicating the audience level and the main element of the resource.
Provider: Online Physical Education Network (OPEN)
Title: Tools for Creating an Active Home
Audience: K-12 PE Teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
Resources provided for and by Physical Education instructors teaching at a distance and parents that homeschool. Contains physical activity logs (K-12) in both English and Spanish. Also contains 7-week Phys Ed packets for k-2, 3-5, middle school, and high school.
Provider: Hip Hop Public Health (HHPH)
Title: Hip Hop Public Health Resource Center
Audience: K-12 PE and Health teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
Repository of music, videos, and teaching guides. These resources can be sorted by content area, media type, grade level, and Health Ed and Phys Ed learning standards
Provider: Peer Health Exchange
Title: Let’s Talk: Your Health
Audience: High School Health teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
A library of health resources, including videos by peer health educators, to help teens take care of themselves (Stress, anxiety, sexual health, etc.)
Provider: FITNESSGRAM The Cooper Institute
Title: COVID-19 Fitness & PE Resources
Audience: K-12 PE Teachers
Category: Teaching Resources
A list of free resources for physical education and physical activity for students, parents and teachers who are practicing social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.
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