10 Great Teaching Resources You Don't Want to Miss!

Looking for some great resources to help you with your professional development and curriculum? Look no further! Below I have outlined 5 resources that would help me in my professional development as I start teaching as well as 5 resources that the students could use in the classroom. Check it out!

Best Practice tool for Professional Development

Name of Online Resource	Website URL	How will this site assist you in your teaching?
Wordpress	wordpress.com	With this website, I can create a portfolio of how I am progressing through each teaching domain. I can highlight what has worked well in my classroom and what things I have improved on or where I still need to improve. This would be a great way to create an online portfolio.
Learning Front	http://learningfront.com	I would use Learning Front to stay up to date with best practices and connect with other teachers about how to integrate and use technology within my classroom.
Simple K12	simplek12.com	This website allows you to have access to a variety of resources that would aid in professional development. I would be able to view webinars and online conferences about a variety of classroom tools.
PBS Teacherline	http://www.pbs.org/teacherline	I think this website will be helpful to me when it comes to specific professional developments. If there is something that I want to take a class in that my district is not offering, I would check on this site to see if there are any classes geared towards what I need.
	http://mathsolutions.com	I think this resource will help me to be more creative with how I teach math. One thing I get stuck on, is teaching concepts the way that I know, and not branching out to teach them in other ways. This website has classroom lessons, articles, and webinars to help you become more successful.

Best Practice tool for Curriculum

Name of Online Resource	Website URL	How will this site assist you in your teaching?
Google Expeditions	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr.expeditions	This looks like such a fun way to learn. I would use this in my classroom specifically in History and Science. It would be such a great tool for students to connect what they are learning to the real world, and learn more new things! It would also be a cool tool to use to follow a character in a book.
Screen-o-matic	https://screencast-o-matic.com/home	I like this as a tool for myself because I can use it to record something on my screen to later show my students. For example, if I wanted to show them how to create a powerpoint in google for a specific assignment, I could use this resource to record exactly what I want and then students would be able to refer back to it if needed.
Hemingway	http://www.hemingwayapp.com	I would definitely use this in my classroom to help students self-edit their work. It highlights complex sentences and errors and helps the students fix them.
Pic Collage	http://pic-collage.com http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/02/summarize-day-with-pic-collage.html#.WXVfya3MxE4	I would use this resource in my classroom by allowing students to use it to summarize what they have learned through pictures and video. This would be a great way for students to create a summary in any subject or even summarize what they learned that day across all subjects.
Nasa Wavelength	http://nasawavelength.org/resource-search?facetSort=1&educationalLevel=Elementary+school	This site gives teachers a bunch of resources for a variety of grade levels. You can find the resource that you want to use and click on it for it to take you to it directly. You can also create a list and add interesting reads or activities to easily find later. I would use this when learning about space or reading non-fiction.