--- title: Teacher Education description: This topic covers the professional preparation, instructional design, and classroom management strategies required for educators. You will understand how to develop lesson plans, assess student performance, and apply pedagogical theories in diverse classroom settings. category: personal-development subcategory: education difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/teacher-education --- # Teacher Education This topic covers the professional preparation, instructional design, and classroom management strategies required for educators. You will understand how to develop lesson plans, assess student performance, and apply pedagogical theories in diverse classroom settings. ## Available Resources 3 Books • 3 Courses • 5 Websites ## Courses ### 1. Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty & Stress **Author:** Marc Brackett Free ten-hour Coursera course from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence for preK-12 teachers, counselors, principals and school staff. It covers the science of emotions, stress, and regulation strategies, so educators can manage their own emotions and support students' emotional wellbeing. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/managing-emotions-uncertainty-stress **Tags:** emotional-intelligence, emotion-regulation, educator-wellbeing, social-emotional-learning, stress-management ### 2. The Torch or The Firehose: A Guide to Section Teaching (MIT RES.18-004) **Author:** Arthur Mattuck A short open book on running recitation sections: complementing lectures, working problems at the board, leading discussion, helping students become active learners, and handling common difficulties. Written with humor for new and experienced teaching assistants who want sections students find genuinely useful. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-004-the-torch-or-the-firehose-a-guide-to-section-teaching-spring-2009/ **Tags:** teaching-assistants, college-teaching, pedagogy, recitation-sections ### 3. Learning to Teach Online Are you an educator? Have you ever wanted to understand more about how to design your class to make better use of educational technology – whether fully online or in blended contexts? Would you like to learn from those who have extensive practical experience with online technologies? The Learning to Teach Online (LTTO) MOOC will help you develop a working understanding of successful online teaching strategies that you can apply in your own practice. The course is based upon the multi award winning open educational resource developed by Dr Simon McIntyre and Karin Watson. Integrating online technologies into your teaching can be a challenging prospect, and it can be difficult to know how to approach it effectively for the benefit of both students and yourself. No one knows your own content and teaching strengths better than you, and the “one size fits all” formula doesn’t always suit everyone. No matter what type of technology you are interested in exploring or your level of experience, this course will help you draw on your teaching strengths and find the approach that is right for you, your students and your educational context. This course will guide you through your journey of understanding how online technologies can enhance your course design. You will have the opportunity to develop your understanding of effective online teaching practices and their relationship to the use of different technologies. You will also be encouraged to progressively design and reflect upon your own online learning activity, assessment or resource for use in your own class if you choose to undertake the course assignments. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/teach-online **Tags:** online-teaching, blended-learning, course-design, teaching-strategies, mooc ## Websites ### 1. The Teacher Toolkit A searchable library of classroom instructional strategies from Texas ESC Region 13, each with a demonstration video, printable student template, and guidance on when to use it. Teachers leave with concrete routines for checks-for-understanding, group practice, and classroom management. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.theteachertoolkit.com/ **Tags:** teaching-strategies, classroom-management, instructional-design, formative-assessment, k-12 ### 2. Cult of Pedagogy Jennifer Gonzalez, a former middle-school teacher and teacher educator, writes and podcasts on instructional methods, assessment, classroom culture, and equity. Posts explain a single technique in depth with the research behind it, so readers can apply it next week. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/ **Tags:** pedagogy, teaching-strategies, classroom-management, assessment, professional-development ### 3. ncte.org NCTE is the National Council of Teachers of English, a professional association for English teachers. The site provides standards and guidance, professional development, classroom resources, journals, and advocacy content to support teacher education and literacy instruction. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ncte.org **Tags:** websites, education-teaching, education ### 4. phet.colorado.edu PhET Interactive Simulations from the University of Colorado Boulder provides free, interactive physics (and science) simulations that let learners explore core concepts—motion, forces, energy, waves, electricity, and magnetism—by adjusting parameters and observing outcomes. It also offers downloadable simulations and ready-to-use activities for teaching and learning introductory physics. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://phet.colorado.edu **Tags:** websites, science-research, physics ### 5. caepnet.org CAEP accredits educator preparation programs in the United States and provides standards, accreditation guidance, and a range of resources—policy updates, program-outcome data, and materials for teacher-education institutions. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://caepnet.org **Tags:** websites, education-teaching, education ## Podcasts ### 1. Truth for Teachers **Author:** Angela Watson Weekly podcast by former classroom teacher and instructional coach Angela Watson on the working life of K-12 teachers: managing workload, setting boundaries, classroom routines and avoiding burnout. Listeners gain practical strategies for sustaining a teaching career without sacrificing personal time. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://TruthForTeachers.com/podcast **Tags:** teacher-wellbeing, teacher-burnout, productivity, k-12-teaching, professional-development ### 2. Math Ed Podcast **Author:** Samuel Otten Interview podcast hosted by University of Missouri mathematics education professor Samuel Otten, running since 2012. Each episode discusses a recent research study with its authors, helping teachers, teacher educators, and graduate students follow current findings on how mathematics is taught and learned. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mathed **Tags:** mathematics-education, education-research, teacher-education, researcher-interviews ### 3. Science Modeling Talks **Author:** Mark Royce Monthly interview podcast supported by the American Modeling Teachers Association in which science teachers and education leaders discuss Modeling Instruction, NGSS implementation, classroom practice and professional development, giving educators concrete examples of student-centred science teaching. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://sciencemodelingtalks.com/ **Tags:** modeling-instruction, science-education, ngss, teacher-professional-development, stem-teaching ### 4. Teaching Hard History **Author:** Hasan Kwame Jeffries Four-season podcast from Learning for Justice, hosted by historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries, in which scholars discuss American slavery, the enslavement of Indigenous peoples, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement. Listeners gain a grounded historical narrative plus practical suggestions for teaching these subjects. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.learningforjustice.org/podcasts/teaching-hard-history **Tags:** american-history, american-slavery, civil-rights-movement, jim-crow, history-education ## Books ### 1. The First Days of School **Author:** Harry K. Wong, Rosemary T. Wong Harry and Rosemary Wong argue that a classroom's success is set in its opening days, and lay out the procedures, routines, and expectations that produce it. Readers finish able to script their own first-week management plan. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0962936065?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, education-teaching, education ### 2. Preparing Teachers for a Changing World **Author:** Linda Darling-Hammond, John Bransford The report of a National Academy of Education committee, edited by Linda Darling-Hammond and John Bransford, setting out what teachers should know about learners, subject matter, and assessment. It gives teacher educators a research-grounded framework for designing preparation programs. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0787996343?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, education-teaching, education ### 3. What Great Teachers Do Differently **Author:** Todd Whitaker Todd Whitaker contrasts effective and ineffective teachers across seventeen specific behaviors, from how they respond to student misbehavior to what they expect of themselves. Short chapters give a self-assessment checklist rather than a curriculum or lesson-planning method. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1596671998?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, education-teaching, education --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/teacher-education