40 Best Resources for teachers to level up your teaching in 2023!

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As a teacher, it's important to constantly strive to improve your craft and stay up to date on the latest teaching strategies and resources. That's why we've compiled a list of the top 40 resources for teachers to help you level up your teaching and engage your students in meaningful learning.

From lesson planning tools and educational technology, to professional development opportunities and lesson ideas, this list has everything you need to take your teaching to the next level. So whether you're a seasoned veteran or a new teacher just starting out, these resources are sure to provide valuable support and inspiration. Let's dive in and discover the best resources for teachers!

Education World

Lesson Plans for Teachers and Students | Education World

Learning New Strategies and Tips for Incorporating SEL in your Lesson Plans & Teaching. Social Emotional Learning for K-12 Educators is written to help educators understand the BIG topic of SEL in a manageable way. The course introduces the idea of the 3 Umbrella Skills, a useful and simple way to think about and discuss the broad ideas of SEL instruction.

https://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/

Education World is a daily destination for teachers, school administrators, and staff to access high-quality, original content. They offer daily updates including curated news briefs on relevant topics for educators, lesson plans, printables, worksheets, EdTech tips, app and website reviews, and a vast collection of professional development articles and columns.

Teacher.org

Teacher Tools and Resources | Teacher.org

Teacher.org is dedicated to supporting teachers. From providing free lesson plans to mapping out teacher discounts and teacher blogs to online teacher degree guides, we want to help teachers thrive in and out of the classroom. We are committed to assisting teachers in order to foster deeper engagement and opportunities for students to excel.

https://www.teacher.org/resource/

The Lesson Plans section of this site has real plans created and designed by K-12 teachers. Search by subject or grade level.

Assistments

ASSISTments | Free Education Tool for Teachers & Students

An experiment conducted by SRI International to test ASSISTments' efficacy showed 75% more learning in classrooms using ASSISTments when compared to the learning that normally happens in a year. The experiment randomized schools to either use ASSISTments or continue their regular methods.

https://new.assistments.org/

Usecase: ASSISTments is a free site that works with many existing math curriculum programs. Assign practice problems using Google Classroom apps, and students receive on-the-spot feedback. Plus, teachers get analytic reports to help them identify those students who are struggling and which problems are causing the most trouble. It makes homework more meaningful for students and teachers alike.

Adobe for Google classroom

Adobe Express for Google Classroom - Google Workspace Marketplace

Adobe Express for Google Classroom Unlock student creativity with stunning visual stories. Create impactful social graphics, web pages, and short videos in minutes! Listing updated:September 26, 2022 Works with: info More details about user reviews Overview Permissions Reviews Help students of all grade levels push their creative thinking and communication with Adobe Express.

https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/adobe_express_for_google_classroom/892762174602

Usecase: Adobe Express is now available in Google Classroom, which makes it easier than ever to incorporate more opportunities for creative thinking and communication into your assignments. It’s an easy-to-use tool that allows students of all ages to create posters, infographics, slideshows, webpages, and videos. We love it because it saves teachers prep time with its library of thousands of templates organized by grade level and subject area.

Education

Educational Games, Worksheets, and More for Kids

An Educational platform for parents and teachers of pre-k through 7th grade kids. Support your kids learning journey with games, worksheets and more that help children practice key skills. Download, print & watch your kids learn today!

https://www.education.com/

Usecase: With lots of printable worksheets and activity ideas, this site is a must-bookmark for teachers. You’ll get a limited amount of free resources each month. Or you can sign up for a very affordable membership for unlimited access.

Jumpstart

Teacher Resources

Resources for teachers are available for any subject and grade, and range from simpleworksheets to educational software for use in the classroom. They are especially useful these days with the increased standards in education and greater expectations from society. JumpStart has its own collection of free teacher resources.

https://www.jumpstart.com/parents/resources/teacher-resources

Usecase: Jumpstart offers free teaching materials, including activities, worksheets, lesson plans, for K-5 teachers.

PBS Learning Media

PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.

https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/

Usecase :Free, standards-aligned pre-K-12 instructional resources including lesson plans, videos, and interactives.

ReadWriteThink

Classroom Resources

Dive into a sea of resources, knowledge, and inspiration for all your literacy needs. With thousands of standards-based resources for teachers and students, you can be confident your students are getting the education they deserve.

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/

NCTE’s site has thousands of standards-based resources for teachers and students of English.

Scholastic

Teaching Tools | Resources for Teachers from Scholastic

Teachers Teaching Tools Homepage

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/home/

Free teaching resources by grade, including articles, book lists, and collections of lesson plans and teaching ideas.

Schooltube

SchoolTube - Safe video sharing and management for K12

This playlist consists of 41 videos all about Computer Science. Teachers can use these videos to support their lesson plans and engage students. These videos each...

https://www.schooltube.com/

You already know YouTube has lots of great videos to use with your students. But not all schools allow access to the site. That’s where SchoolTube comes in. Share videos safely, and get content you can trust.

Sciencebuddies

Science Fair Project Ideas, Answers, & Tools

Help students discover STEM careers that fit their interests! Students take a quick quiz (just 30 questions) about their interests and get a personalized list of STEM careers with detailed information to explore each pathway. Explore how a pandemic evolves by visualizing different scenarios in graphs that depict infections, symptomatic individuals, deaths, and immunity.

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/

Choose from hundreds of videos, STEM challenges, and lesson plans. Also, find a vast collection of hands-on science experiments and projects for K-12.

Sharemylesson

Share My Lesson | Free Lesson Plans & Teacher Resources

Share My Lesson is a community of teachers, paraprofessionals and school-related personnel, specialized instructional support personnel, higher education faculty, and parents and caregivers who contribute content, collaborate, and stay up to date on the issues that matter to students and educators everywhere.

https://sharemylesson.com/

Share My Lesson houses over 420,000 free lesson plans and activities, organized by grade and topic.

Teachervision

Lesson Planning Resources

Behind every child's education is a plan. With our variety of lesson plans at your fingertips, planning for the next day will become a breeze. Here you can access over 19,000 printables, games, and activities for your ideal classroom experience. These lessons are guaranteed to stimulate your students' brains while providing you with the resources for a great year.

https://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans

There’s such a wide selection here, way beyond lesson plans! Get hall passes, graphic organizers, rubrics, and lots of other useful free teaching resources.

Teacherpayteachers

Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | Teachers Pay Teachers

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/

TpT allows teachers to share their knowledge with their colleagues and make money doing it. There are many paid options, but you’ll find lots of freebies available too.

Betterlesson

Free K - 12 Lesson Plans from World-Class Teachers | BetterLesson

We are deeply grateful for all of our amazing partners as we undertake this ambitious mission. Special thanks to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The National Education Association, and The Learning Accelerator for their extremely generous support of the projects.

https://betterlesson.com/browse/master_teachers/projects

Free K - 12 Lesson Plans from World-Class Teachers | BetterLesson

Free, comprehensive lesson plans covering critical subjects for grades K-12.

Edutopia

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George Lucas Educational Foundation Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) By helping young students develop social awareness and emotional literacy, teachers can create a calm environment in the classroom-and build the foundation for lifelong learning. An activity that combines coding and solving equations improves students' math skills and helps them build persistence.

https://www.edutopia.org/

Educational content, activities, and ideas plus advice for parents and teachers.

KidsKonnect

Worksheets For Kids | Kindergarten & Elementary | Printable Worksheets

25,000+ printable worksheets for teachers & homeschool parents. Social studies, English, geography, people, seasonal & science worksheets. All curricula!

https://kidskonnect.com/

Library of printable worksheets for teachers and homeschoolers across all subjects.

Scholastic

Scholastic Resource Bank

Scholastic Resource Bank is packed full with over 10,000 quality educational resources for Early Years and Primary. Our finely crafted resources include lesson plans, teaching ideas, planning and assessment tools, activity sheets, interactives, video, plus much more! We have something for all your teaching needs so come and take a look...

https://resource-bank.scholastic.co.uk/

Lesson plans, student activities, and video clips for teachers.

Superteacherworksheets

Super Teacher Worksheets - Thousands of Printable Activities

Fraction strips, fraction circles, and fraction worksheets. Lots of grammar worksheets that cover a variety of topics. Measure and calculate the perimeter of polygons. Learn about place value for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7-digit numbers. Help Inspector Numerico solve these mystery number challenges.

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/

Printable worksheets and activities for teachers, parents, tutors, and homeschool families.

Teachervision

Teaching Resources & Strategies for K-12

Print-ready and digital resourcesthat teachers can trust. From thousands of worksheets and lesson plans to new PBL projects and complete teaching kits, our content adapts to your individual needs as an educator.

https://www.teachervision.com/

Classroom-ready lesson plans, printables, and resources.

Teach-nology

Worksheets, Lesson Plans, Teacher Resources, and Rubrics from TeAch-nology.com

For over a decade, TeAchnology has been providing free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students. We feature 46,000+ lesson plans, 10,200 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, worksheet makers, web quests, math worksheets, and thousands of other great teacher resources.

https://www.teach-nology.com/

Online resources for educators including worksheets, lesson plans, rubrics, and more.

Visionlearning

Visionlearning | Your insight into science

Free Award-winning Content We create and provide high-quality, accessible, educational content in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines at the introductory undergraduate level. We support NGSS Our exclusive content integrates science and engineering practices with disciplinary core ideas and cross-cutting concepts in alignment with the Next Generation Science Standards.

https://www.visionlearning.com/

In depth modules on a range of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics topics.

Learner

www.learner.org

https://www.learner.org/

K-12 teaching resources and professional development programming.

Nearpod

Nearpod: You'll wonder how you taught without it

Make any slides-based lessons interactive and gather data on student understanding by adding formative assessments, simulations, and dynamic media. Or choose from thousands of ready-to-teach, customizable, standards-aligned lessons from teacher favorite brands.

https://nearpod.com/

Real-time insights into student understanding through interactive lessons, interactive videos, gamification, and activities — all in a single platform.

Teachstarter

Free Teaching Resources

Free worksheets , free printables, and more are here for elementary teachers to save...

https://www.teachstarter.com/resource-availability/free/

Free worksheets, free printables, and more are here for elementary teachers to save time on lesson planning! Get a taste of the Teach Starter difference with classroom activities, learning games, lesson plans, and more teacher-created resources that you can download for free right now!

Kahoot

Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

"Kahoot! has become one of our "flagship training tools". I believe Kahoot! is irreplaceable, as it involves learners throughout sessions and also helps employees retain important information more effectively."

https://kahoot.com/

Kahoot is a game-based learning platform that lets you create fun learning games. You can make quizzes on any topic and in any language, and customize those quizzes with videos, diagrams, and images. Students participate in “kahoots” (games) by logging the game codes on their device or application.

Edpuzzle

Edpuzzle | Make Any Video Your Lesson

Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

https://edpuzzle.com/

With Edpuzzle, you can create interactive video lessons with embedded audio notes, assessments, and quizzes. Its analytics tool enables you to track how students are watching your videos and if they understand the content.

Ispringsolutions

Free Quiz Maker

Create online assessments for free and track quiz results to evaluate the effectiveness of your eLearning. Use different question types: multiple-choice, multiple response, or short answer, and customize them with images, audio, and videos. HTML5 quizzes and surveys are compatible with any SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004 compatible LMS. If you don't have an LMS, just publish them on your website or blog.

https://www.ispringsolutions.com/free-quiz-maker

Free Quiz Maker is an educational tool that lets teachers build interactive tests and exams from 3 question types: multiple-choice, multiple response, and short answer questions. You can also set scoring parameters, the number of attempts allowed, and time limits.

Phet.colorado.edu

PhET Interactive Simulations

Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/teaching-resources

For science, math, engineering, and technology, teachers can't go wrong with the University of Colorado, Boulder's PhET, which creates very accessible free interactive math and science simulations. These simulations are based on extensive research, and they engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment so they can have fun learning through exploration and discovery.

Scholastic

Teaching Tools | Resources for Teachers from Scholastic

Teachers Teaching Tools Homepage

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/home

Scholastic offers a treasure trove of free resources for teachers—especially those who teach K-8. Scholastic has outstanding lessons that are all linked to relevant standards, and their lessons built around holidays and current events are especially compelling.

Epic!

Free for educators! Give students unlimited in-class access to the best books & videos on Epic

Empower student choice on any device. Epic School is free for educators and students with class code log in access from 7 am to 3 pm when school is physically in session! Student access from almost any computer, tablet or smartphone. Easy to use for 1-on-1 & shared devices with just a class code.

https://www.getepic.com/educators

This free resource allows teachers and librarians to instantly access 25,000 e-books, learning videos, quizzes, and more. It also includes books written in Spanish!

Khanacademy

Khan Academy | Free Online Courses, Lessons & Practice

Learners, teachers, districts, and parents: Students practice at their own pace, first filling in gaps in their understanding and then accelerating their learning. Created by experts, Khan Academy's library of trusted, standards-aligned practice and lessons covers math K-12 through early college, grammar, science, history, AP®, SAT®, and more.

https://www.khanacademy.org/

Khan Academy provides free educational content in the form of instructional videos and practice exercises covering different subjects including math, chemistry, physics, science, arts, humanities and many more.

Commonsensemedia

Common Sense Media: Age-Based Media Reviews for Families

Look for us next time you're searching for something to watch, read, or play. See all distribution partners Not-for-profit partnerships, generous foundation support, and contributions from parents like you keep Common Sense free and available to families everywhere.

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/

Common Sense Media is a platform where you can access teacher-created reviews of educational tools and mobile apps, read-made lesson plans, webinars, videos and many other resources.

CK-12

CK12-Foundation

https://www.ck12.org/student/

CK-12 provides teacher-curated STEM content that include lessons, activities, study guides, and practice exercises.

EDted

Lessons Worth Sharing

TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.

https://ed.ted.com/

TED Ed is an education initiative from TED to help teachers, educators, and students access and create interactive video lessons. It is also a tool similar to Edpuzzle and PlayPosit to use to add questions and interactive features to videos.

TeachersFirst

TeachersFirst: The web resource by teachers, for teachers

TeachersFirst is Thinking Teachers, Teaching Thinkers. TeachersFirst offers a rich collection of lessons, units, and educator-reviewed web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. Every resource includes ideas for how to use it effectively in the classroom.

https://www.teachersfirst.com/index.cfm

TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format.

AtoZ teacher stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Downloads, Printables, Lesson Plans, Teaching Themes, Forums, Worksheet Makers

WELCOME to A to Z Teacher Stuff ® A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials, printable worksheets, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

http://atozteacherstuff.com/

A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials, printable worksheets, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

Teaching for change

Educator Resources - Teaching for Change

Lessons, Articles, Recommended Books, Films, and more The Civil Rights Movement is celebrated in our national narrative as a people's struggle for social justice. However, the powerful stories of everyday people organizing and working together for social change are lost in the teaching of a few major heroes and dates.

https://www.teachingforchange.org/teaching-resources

Lesson plans, activities, articles, recommended resources and more from Teaching for Change: Building Social Justice Starting in the Classroom.

Educators brainpop

Lesson Plans | BrainPOP Educators

Looking for ideas about how to use BrainPOP with your students? Below you'll find top-notch lesson plans from the BrainPOP Educator community. Explore our growing collection of lesson plans or submit your own! Want to quickly find lesson plans for a specific BrainPOP topic or game?

https://educators.brainpop.com/lesson-plan/

Every topic and game has a unique matching collection of teacher support materials, from lesson plans and teaching tips to printables and support videos. No account required.