Derek L. McCoy

Tons of Great Resources to Help You Use Social Media in Class – Great links here to help you get started!

Excellent Tool to Create Rubrics for Your Class

Successful Parent/Teacher Conferences

Tips on what parents and teachers want and should avoid to have a positive meeting!

Are You a Teacher Leader?

Get a plan, get active and be a difference maker!!

Practice what you preach

This is a some great advice about us giving feedback to students and how WE should reflect!!

How To YouTube Your Classroom

Videos are a great teaching resource! Here are some criteria and considerations for using YouTube/video based instruction in the classroom!

4 Keys To Developing Academic Vocabulary

5 Daily Classroom Routines That Can Benefit from Technology

These are 5 practices that occur in every classroom given a good update and take with some digital tools! Great read!

How Educators Can Address Poverty’s Widespread Effects

Combating Experiential Deficiencies for At-Risk Students

At-risk students can have a limitation of not having experiences of other students, let’s put some of these experiences in place.

Teacher’s Guide to Digital Storytelling

Great ideas for digital storytelling lesson ideas

A Great Tool to Create 3D Timelines in Class

Over 40 Web Tools to Create Quizzes and Polls in Class

Delivering Differentiated Instruction in Your Classroom

Great read here – overview, research, implementation tips!

5 Simple Tricks to Invigorate Your Students’ Parents (So That They Can, in Turn, Help You)

Simplifying our process to allow parents to come will encourage parents to come in

Students Google advanced search

Are we fully utilizing Google? Do you have an analog approach to digital resources?

The New Periodic Table Song (In Order)

WOW!

A Teacher Planning Model For Multiple Intelligences

Great explanation of MI and links to resources

Bloom’s Taxonomy Sheet

Resources and links!

The teachers guide to optimizing student feedback

Great advice here! This empowers students to take charge of their learning and productivity!

This group participation rubric is perfect for project-based learning

Resource and suggestion for rubrics and work guidelines for groups – great stuff!

PLC’s in education

‘What should we look like? What should we strive for? Where should we be going?’

20 Of The Best Study Apps For The Plugged-In Student

Two Useful Articles On The Value Of “What If?” History Lessons

This is a great alternative strategy for a delivery method for history/social studies instruction

Twitter for PD for Teachers