Courses and Collections
Professional Development Courses and Classroom Resource
Collections Together Make Teaching and Learning Exciting!
Teachers' Domain is an online educational service with two
related components that help teachers advance their teaching
skills, and enhance their students' learning experiences.
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Teachers' Domain Courses
broaden educators' knowledge of science content and
inquiry methodology, and help them integrate technology
into the classroom.
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Teachers' Domain Collections
contain classroom-ready multimedia resources from
public television programs like NOVA,
ZOOM, and A Science Odyssey.
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Teachers' Domain Courses
Teachers learn using inquiry and exploration,
two approaches they can take back to the classroom.
Each research-based course follows the constructivist
model, building upon what participants already know
and enabling them to take an active role in their own
learning.
Using streaming video and other
multimedia resources from the Teachers' Domain
collections, these courses provide educators with
first-hand experiences using rich media as learning
objects. This multimedia is available for course
participants to use immediately with their students.
The courses also contain videos of actual classroom
practice — teaching in action — that model creative
teaching strategies. Online discussions of two
types — topical and teaching and learning
strategies — enable teachers to communicate with their
peers in a supportive learning environment and to
build a collaborative learning community.
Readings, writings, and other assignments round out
Teachers' Domain courses.
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The course design gives teachers a solid background
on the concepts and the videos are great for
introducing new concepts to students.
4th Grade Teacher, Randolph, NY
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Teachers' Domain Collections
Video and audio clips, interactive activities, photographs,
diagrams, illustrations, and images of documents bring science
to life for K-12 students in exciting, interactive ways.
Whether used in teacher presentations or assigned to students
for self-study, these resources supplement static textbook
lessons with compelling images.
In addition to classroom-ready resources, the collections contain
resources for educators including lesson plans, discussion
questions, correlations to state, national, and McREL standards,
topical background essays, and related subject resources.
A menu of commonly-taught subjects and a searchable database make
locating these resources easy. Teachers' Domain collections
are free, through the generosity of WGBH, Boston's PBS station
and the producer of Teachers' Domain, and the collection
funders (National Science Foundation, National Science Digital
Library, and others).
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It's been extremely helpful to have interactive
activities and video clips from trusted sources
as a supplement to my instructional strategies.
7th Grade Teacher, Waynesboro, GA
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Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations
expressed in Teachers' Domain are those of the author(s)
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the
National Science Foundation.
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