Primary Sources: America’s Largest Teacher Survey

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What do 20,000 public school teachers have to say about teaching, evaluation, standards, and collaboration.

You can see the survey results and download full reports and infographics form the completed study on the Primary Sources website.

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Teaching Channel’s Theory of Professional Learning

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Teaching Channel’s mission is to help educators learn from each other.

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The authors of this site believe that videos are one of the prime materials to be used in education and have compiled an extensive collection of them for your use.  My view is that the best teaching occurs when ALL available materials are utilized depending on the material, student and teacher strengths, and the context of the learning environment.  But great videos are a nice resource to have.

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What Do Teachers Make

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It’s sad that teachers are some of the lowest paid professional workers in the United States.  I remember when I switched from engineering to teaching and, in my first week, I realized that in order to make a phone call, I had to wait in line in the main office.  Along with the low pay and due to our society’s social hierarchy based on wealth, teachers don’t get a lot of respect.  This video is probably a reaction to this.

We need to raise the status of and increase the funding of education in the United States.  This is especially true for the poorest of the kids in our country.

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The Life Of A Teacher

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For some reason, many people believe that a teachers job is easy and have no idea about the scope of activities that are included in the job.  In an effort to enlighten those folks, a map of teacher responsibilities is shown below.

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The obvious teacher activities are shown in yellow, which are time consuming and take up most of a teacher’s day.  But the rest of the “iceberg” activities, shown in white, are what make the job a real challenge.

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Multimedia Science Materials On Teachers Pay Teachers Site

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Multimedia Science creates teaching software and materials in the areas of Teacher Tools, Physics, and Chemistry.

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These materials can be found on the Teachers Pay Teachers site.

 

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Multimedia Science Teacher Tools Pinterest Pins

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Visit Multimedia Science’s Pinterest site for pins of available physics, chemistry, and teacher tools software and materials.  Includes general items of interest about teaching.

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Multimedia Science Teacher Tools Pinterest Site

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Free Screen Capture Software

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Sign up on the right to get your copy of Multimedia Science’s Screen Capture software.

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The Screen Capture software allows you to capture graphics from portions of your screen up to 800 x 600 pixels in size. When you click start, a window appears that you can drag anywhere on your screen. When you have the object or area of the screen that you want to capture, you select it by dragging and holding your left mouse button around that area. That portion of the screen can then be saved to a bmp graphics file.

Product Type: Software – Teacher Tool
Curriculum: Any
Level: Grades K-12 & College
Requirements: PC computer, Windows XP or newer

The software is downloaded as a zipped file, InstallScreenCapture.zip. Upzip and run the InstallScreenCapture.exe file and follow the directions to install the software on your computer.

Please e-mail mmscience@multimediascience.com if you have any questions.

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