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About Teachers' Domain

Teachers' Domain is an online educational service with two related components -- resource collections and professional development courses -- that help teachers facilitate student learning and advance their own teaching skills.

Teachers' Domain resource collections constitute an extensive digital library of multimedia resources for K-12 teachers and students. You can find resources through subject, topic, and subtopic menus, filtered by grade level of interest, or search by keyword, grade, media type, or subject. You can use resources to creatively supplement your existing curriculum or follow more prescribed Teachers' Domain lesson plans. All resources and lesson plans are correlated to national and state standards.

You can save and organize links to resources in your own "resource folders." Use these online folders to present selected resources to your classes, to organize student assignments, or to share ideas with other colleagues.

Teachers' Domain professional development courses broaden educators' knowledge of subject area content and methodology, and help them innovately integrate technology into their classrooms. Courses may be licensed by organizations for delivery to the teachers they serve. To learn more about available courses and how to obtain them, or to take a course tour, please go to our online brochure.

Using Teachers' Domain Collections

Teachers' Domain collections are organized into the following levels, moving from most general to most specific: discipline, subject, topic, subtopic, resource. "Darwin: Reluctant Rebel," for example, is a video resource that falls under the discipline Science, the subject Life Science, the topic Evolution and Diversity, and the subtopic History of Evolution.

Here are a variety of ways that Teachers' Domain resources might be used in a classroom setting:

• Teachers present multimedia resources to students
• Students work with resources on their own
• Teachers use discussion questions as they present resources
• Students work with resources in small groups
• Teachers use background information on resource pages as self-refreshers on a topic
• Teachers give higher-grade students the background information as basic content
• Teachers use or adapt Teachers' Domain lesson plans to supplement their existing units or texts (Note: Teachers' Domain lesson plans are intended as supplemental lessons to existing units.)
• Teachers develop and annotate resource folders that they assign to particular groups of students, using "My Folders" and "My Groups"