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The Civil Rights Movement in Context
Investigate the precursors to the Civil Rights Movement, its leadership, its opposition, and its legacy, including lesser-studied events of the movement and primary sources.
Take this course: Begins February 2.

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Student Feedback Survey
A survey form that gives students the opportunity to offer feedback on your teaching. May be used as a template.
Format: document
Formative assessment
This reference article discusses the history, concept, and application of formative assessment.
Format: article
By Heather Coffey.
New beginnings
In The First Year, page 2.11
Treat January as an opportunity to start fresh, in your relationships with students and colleagues and in your classroom management and instruction.
By Kristi Johnson Smith.
Assessment and Evaluation in Your Online Course: Online course syllabus
Syllabus for the online class, Assessment and Evaluation in Your Online Course, which provides a collection of resources and exercises that define the unique assessment process of online courses.
Format: syllabus
Developing Your Online Course: Online course syllabus
Syllabus for the course Developing Your Online Course designed to help teachers develop strategies for building online courses.
Format: syllabus
Substitute teacher planning form
Includes daily schedule, lesson plan, student seating chart, class roster, and feedback form.
Format: document
Student feedback form
This template represents a revised version of a template I received while in graduate school. The original version was distributed to my classmates and to me by a group of advisors at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Note...
By Kristi Johnson Smith.
LEARN NC Local Coordinator Job Description
This page explains the duties expected of district-level coordinators for LEARN NC.
Format: article/help
Teaching Online Courses: Online course syllabus
Syllabus for the online class Teaching online courses which examines online pedagogy and practical strategies for the online teaching and learning environment.
Facilitating Online Collaboration: Online course syllabus
Syllabus for the course Facilitating Online Collaboration which helps teachers develop strategies and practice the skills required to facilitate good online communication, moderate online discussion, and promote better accomplishment of instructional goals within the virtual classroom.
Format: syllabus
Angry words: What goes around comes around
This is a simple, concrete lesson to illustrate the power of anger to travel from one person to another and to linger in the environment even after the immediate emotion is gone. Strategies for coping with angry feelings are shared.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
By Judy Lavore.
Demonstration
This education reference article explains the demonstration method of teaching.
Format: article
By Heather Coffey.
Benchmark assessments
This reference article discusses the concept of benchmark assessments, including arguments for and against standardized benchmark testing and best practices in creating teacher-developed benchmark assessments.
Format: article
By Heather Coffey.
Summative assessment
This article defines summative assessment and lists several examples and common formats.
Format: article
By Heather Coffey.
How do hurricanes cause damage to coastal infrastructure?
In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 2.1
A fully formed hurricane carries three major threats to coastal development: low atmospheric pressure, high surface winds, and heavy rainfall. These threats are realized in different ways. Low central pressure becomes a threat when...
By Dirk Frankenberg.
Action chains
Students learn to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. Expanding single actions into an action chain provides the reader with a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
By DPI Writing Strategies.
Creating community in the classroom: Part 4 (rewarding improvement)
The fourth lesson in a series on improving classroom learning climate, this lesson provides an opportunity to evaluate student progress and to provide positive reinforcement for improvements in behavior. Using a one to ten continuum, students will subjectively evaluate class progress on the ten adjectives listed as class climate goals. After this process, students will publicly recognize those classmates who have helped the class improve or who have personally improved.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
By Pat Nystrom.
Team teaching
Also known as co-teaching or collaborative teaching, team teaching is an instructional strategy used across subject areas primarily in middle grades in a variety of methods. Teams are typically composed of between two and four teachers...
Format: article
By Heather Coffey.
Partes del cuerpo (Parts of the body)
Students learn Spanish vocabulary for parts of the body.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
By Teresa Payne.
World War I political debate
In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.7
In this lesson for grade six, students will use their knowledge of World War I to debate whether Germany should have paid reparations following the war.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
By Shea Calloway.