No need to wander – Exploring lesson plans and teacher resources: 
There are a number of my former students’ lesson plans cached within this site to use as models. These plans demonstrate lessons constructed using a variety of models of teaching – holistic (cognitive, affective, psychomotor); multiple intelligences; problem solving; learning styles; jigsaw; graffiti; the Hunter Model; and combination hybrids using some of these concepts. They also illustrate the instructional design principles of descending curriculum components – aims, goals and objectives and what that process looks like in planning.
Also listed here are a number of really nice sites that offer teachers support for creating exceptional lessons. With the vast array of online resources, there is no excuse not to be an inventive, creative, dynamic, well-informed teacher. Here is a list of some of the more popular lesson plan sites.
**If you use another’s work as a source for inspiration or use, please have the good grace and professionalism to cite that source and author.
If you have suggestions for other free, non-political, non-commercial sites and teacher’s resources, please write with those suggestions letting me know why you think they are worth investigating. Thanks in advance. Contact Leslie
- Educator’s reference desk
- New York Times
- Education World
- Lesson planet search engine
- Thirteen EdOnline – Want to actually teach in a constructivist manner? Here is a place to start. Great definitions and steps in helping constructing lessons based on constructivism.
- Wilson’s Lesson Plans – My ED 381 students have generously donated sample lesson plans to be used as prototypes using 8 different curricular models.
Resources for educators and parents:
- Edutopia – Gobs and gobs of good stuff!
- informED – General link – Terrific site for all educators from Open Colleges with all kinds of articles pertinent to today’s topics about learning in a cyber age and and thinking and creating at optimal levels.
- informED – 25 things successful teachers do – And excellent list describing what successful teachers routinely do