• Welcome
    • Welcome
  • Philosophy
    • Introduction
    • Philosophy
  • Educational Background
    • Introduction
    • Documents
  • Issues in Education
    • Introduction
    • Instructional Communication
    • Curriculum Design
    • Tutoring Environments
    • Education and Society
  • Issues in Psychology
    • Introduction
    • Context in Education
    • Forgetting
    • Language
  • Teaching Experience
    • Introduction
    • Tutoring Experience
    • Classroom Experience
  • Conclusion
    • Conclusion
    • Resources
    • Future Goals

Resources

The following resources are ones that I frequently use. I have divided them up by their purpose.

Educational:

  1. Ted Talks: Short videos to provide concise, interesting information in a variety of topics.
  2. Sporcle: Short online quizzes in a variety of topics that I use to quickly energize students without losing their focus from the task at hand.
  3. IXL Math: An online collection of scientifically-proven effective math practice.
  4. Khan Academy: Clear explanations of a variety of math topics that are helpful when tutoring and your style does not coincide with your tutee's.
  5. ASAPScience: Short youtube vidoes that provide humorous, clear explanations of scientific phenomena that would be of interest to most people.

Inspirational:

  1. Sugata Mitra: Provides powerful talks on the ability of students to educate themselves.
  2. Salman Khan: Shows how simple it is to provide a forum for collaboration and sharing of knowledge.
  3. Rumi: Inspiration Sufi poet who I personally identify with because his poetry is focused on his relationship with his teacher and the special bond that a teacher and student share.

Education Planning:

  1. EduTopia: Well researched articles and videos that provide insight into new educational practices that have been successful.
  2. Education.com: A comprehensive collection of classroom worksheets and exerciss for teachers to share and collaborate with each other.

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