I love sharing resources with others who are looking for new and different ways to educate children, in and out of a classroom. So it was very exciting at a recent family get together when I learned that one of my brothers-in-law is planning to become a classroom teacher when he retires from his first career in a couple of years.
He wants to teach elementary school, and I primarily focused on high school in my last years of teaching, but I still had quite a few fun resources to share with him. And it occurred to me that some of these may be of interest to readers of this blog as well.
Free and Inexpensive Resources
So here are a number of my favorite all around educational resources, several of which are free or inexpensive, and most of which could be helpful whether you are involved in the education of younger students or older ones, and whether you are dealing with just one or two students, or an entire classroom of them.
TED Talk
An amazing Ted talk by Sir Ken Robinson on Changing Paradigms about Education (everyone with an interest in education should watch this!):
Izzit
Izzit.org Educational DVDs are amazing! And as an educator you can get a free one each year. (Or you can stream any of them for free.) If you are working with high schoolers there are so many great ones to choose from! If you are working with elementary age, these two (Pups of Liberty) are my favorites:
- http://m.izzit.org/m/video_description.php?video=pups_of_liberty_btp
- http://www.izzit.org/products/detail.php?video=pups_of_liberty_dog
Books and Lectures
As I’ve mentioned on my other blog, I am an avid Audible listener. So, of course, I listen to these through Audible. But the first two are also available as books, and the last one is also available directly through the Great Courses (though there they will definitely cost more than getting it through Audible!)
- The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey into How the World’s Poorest People Are Educating Themselves
- Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
- The Great Courses – How We Learn – 24 lectures – “Learning is a lifelong adventure.”
Happy Learning!
Cathy
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