TEACHING TIPS AND TOOLS
- In this article from the Knoxville News Sentinel, experts, Amy Broemmel and Anthony Pellegrino from the Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education and Lori Caudle from the Department of Child and Family Studies, weigh in on how families can “survive” the transition to online learning while “reconnecting and learning from one another.”
STEM SUBJECTS
- Check out this google STEM teaching resource site for families and teachers from the Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education‘s Lynn Hodge and East Tennessee STEM Hub. They are hosting weekly “Community chats and coffee” and are creating STEM Sparks videos that share hands-on activity and spark an interest in problem-solving. You can even ASK THE STEM EDUCATOR a question and they will get back to you within 24 hours.
READING ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES
- The Korn Learning, Assessment, and Social Skills (KLASS) Center offers several helpful resources for parents when helping children navigate academic and behavioral changes in everyday life and during the changes brought on by COVID-19. Several areas are covered including social emotional, routines/structure, and more and how it can affect behavior.
- Check out the Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. They are an amazing resource for great books and activities around literature. They even have a young adult literature online book club going on now. They were online before it was even cool! Follow them on Facebook too!
- In this video, Amber Roundtree, doctoral student in Theory and Practice in Teacher Education describes some additional activities to do with books (e.g. word/letter scavenger hunt), practicing spelling using index cards (called mix and fix), and a brief intro to some of the online resources listed below. The Knox County Public Library has lots of amazing resources, including: Tumblebooks, Audio stories and fairytales, Scholastic free projects to continue learning at home, by grade level, Easy readers with and without narration, Read alouds by famous folks, Teach Your Monster to Read, online game that teaches letter/sound matches, Free, interactive leveled books, Lunch doodles w/ author/illustrator Mo Willems, What are you wondering about? A great site geared for upper grades with focus on information text/questions, Free phonics/reading games, Astronauts reading stories from space, Activities and projects by grade level.
WRITING ACTIVITIES
- The Korn Learning, Assessment, and Social Skills (KLASS) Center offers several helpful resources for parents when helping children navigate academic and behavioral changes in everyday life and during the changes brought on by COVID-19. Several areas are covered including social emotional, routines/structure, and more and how it can affect behavior.
- Nora Vines, from Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, shares this video with a fun way to get anyone (and everyone) writing. Start with your heart and explore the possibilities! Here is one of her favorite websites with excellent resources for writers and teachers. Here is the heart template or you can draw your own.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
For Student Athletes
Here’s a free online course for high school student-athletes, that is hosted by the National Federation for State High School Associations. The course is designed to help high school athletes learn more about being a team leader, a better captain, and how to help their peers. Included is a coaches guide book available for download to help coaches converse with athletes as they complete the course.