Health & Wellness

Role of TeachersFirst

For my content area, Physical Education, I became a member of the professional association Teachers First. TeachersFirst is a free service association from the non-profit association, The Source of Learning. This community has thousands of units and web resources for any grade level. The Association is helpful in finding information for a particular subject or curriculum. It can range from the grade level to professional topics.

 

Content area standards and expectations

In hopes of looking for information about Physical Education, the search box allows members to read articles from other organizations for ideas. For teaching inspiration or simply to explore other resources there is also a grade search.

 

Membership opportunities, services, and benefits

Members are able to:

• Access trusted teaching resource in an advertising-free, safe environment

• Find the best teaching ideas and resources on the web, including Teachers First Exclusives and organized from easy access.

• Create a set of ‘send home’ email messages to help parents help students.

• Mark and retrieve a collection of Favorite resources just for your own use, such as professional sites or resources for upcoming units

• Add announcements and arrange your TeachersFirst public page

• Add Favorites even from your mobile device so they will be ready for your class the next day

 

Affiliated Conferences

There aren’t any affiliated conferences for TeachersFirst but there are many Districts within the United States associated with the organization. There is an Advisory Board called TeachersFirst Advisory Board that provides feedback and feedback to the members especially those who wish to use technology to support teaching and learning. There are technology leaders at local, regional and national levels. Some of them reside in Tennessee, North Carolina, California, Washington and New York.

 

Professional Development opportunities

Professional Development opportunities for teachers or perspective teachers are workshop classes.  If an ed tech coach, technology integration specialist, or other professional development professional wants to host a workshop, they are capable of requesting material for the workshop as well

 

Lessons and Other resources

Professional Resources that are included within TeachersFirst give strategies to teachers for:

• differentiating

• must-know professional topics like cyber bullying and copyright

• help for newbie or substitute teachers

• quick access to important outside sources

• reading resources and ideas for all grades

• rubrics, tech tips and best practices

• timesavers and handy tools

• and ideas for working together with parents

 

Other interesting or pertinent information

TeachersFirst is a teacher-friendly association that allows teachers to have resources or information for their classroom as quickly as possible. Researching and trying new methods with one to become a better teacher.