This website will help you understand and apply the Understanding by Design (UbD) or Backward Design planning process to develop equitable units of math instruction. The UbD content will draw from the work done by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, digitalcommons@trinity.edu., OER Commons, other resources and from Granite State College math and methods instructors.

We will examine each of the 3 main stages of unit planning and apply these concepts to planning math instruction for K-12 students.

This open textbooks covers theories, teaching strategies, and instructional materials pertinent to teaching reading and writing in grades PK-3, with an emphasis on integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as integration across content areas while addressing diversity and inclusion.

This guide was remixed using ISKME's OER Faculty Starter Guide found here: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/oer-online-learning-faculty-quick-start-guide/view

This is a simple open educational practice, described following the DC4LT template. The resource is prepared by Tord Talmo, edited by Mikhail Fominykh.

Videos covering topics such as how best to assist a blind person, how to communicate using on-body signing and what resources are available to visually impaired students and how they can help them learn and understand more about the world around them.

Topics include:

What does it mean to have a visual impairment?
Teaching Science
Literacy for blind children

This audiotape is linked to Creating People Centred Schools learning guide, but carries debates which could also be used in a free-standing way by anyone interested in school organization and change.

This is a first class/session activity for pre-service teachers in a course on classroom language skills. Students create a video where they imagine themselves as teachers introducing themselves to a new class on the first day of school. The activity incorporates a range speaking of speaking skills and presents students with an authentic classroom situation.The activity is ideal for students at level B1 (CEFR) or intermediate and higher in English, though it can be adapted for any other foreign language.

Research, resources, and real talk about tech for the next generation of educational leaders. A collection of open-access resources for pre-service teacher candidates in Ontario who are interested in developing skills and methods for the evidence-informed use of digital technologies in classrooms. Includes resources about assistive technologies and accessibility, tech tip sheets, evidence-informed practice posters about various technologies (ex. Padlet), and suggested activities. Available in English and in French.

The Zimbabwe ICT Essentials for Teachers Course is avaiable as an App for Android phones and tablets. The original course has been reformated to fit on screens of different sizes! The full course is available.