Gateway to 21st Century Skills

 

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Gateway's Featured Learning Resource:

The Human Jigsaw

Using Thomas Paine's "The Crisis, No. 1" from The American Crisis, students form a human jigsaw as they find the main idea, supporting details, persuasive arguments, imagery, and emotional appeals. Prior experience with the elements listed is assumed.

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Meet Gateway Members!

From students and pre-service teachers to experienced educators in all parts of educational enterprise, everyone finds value in the Gateway collection of learning resources.  The community is growing in size and harnessing the awesome power that comes from a huge set of life and teaching skills.  Here's a sample:

S.M. -  AL
Associate Professor of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama.

T.E. - TX
I am a Career and Technology teacher in Humble, Texas. It is my duty to help students locate and maintain employment, this is especially critical because the majority of our population is categorized as being at risk.

C.H. - PA
I am a member of the Professional Development Department at Special People in Northeast, Inc. (SPIN, Inc.) I write training curriculum for employees who provide support to adults and children with intellectual disabilities and autism.

C.S. - CA
I am a third year high school teacher teaching World History at an urban high school in Santa Ana, CA.

Join educators sharing and networking with other educators. Our focus is on the community discussion surrounding learning resources facilitated by Web 2.0 technologies.   Make suggestions, highlight best practices, add academic standards correlations, give helpful hints and more.

Click here for information about GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials) and instructions on joining the Gateway to 21st Century Skills. 

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 The Gateway to 21st Century Skills

• Access to over 50,000 thousand quality learning resources of the GEM collection through the latest in faceted search technology
• Reinforce core content with learning resources from NASA, PBS, National Science Foundation and over 700 other contributing education content providers
• Access to 21^st Century teaching tools, assessments and professional development
• Access to the Achievement Standards Network, a digitized version of every state's core academic standards

Whether you're a student, teacher, administrator or a concerned education partner, there's something for everyone to help you meet the challenges of teaching and learning in the 21^stCentury!

 PRAXIS pressure?

Are you preparing to take the Praxis II Principles of Learning and Teaching (PLT)? Wouldn't you love to have an online study guide to help you prepare for the test? And wouldn't it be even better if it were free?

Well, look no further... NEA Members have FREE access to our online Praxis PLT Study Guide.

Simply log in as a member and get started.           

Not a member? Not a problem. Join the NEA Student Program today and have immediate access to the Praxis II PLT Study Guide.

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills is a project of the GEM Exchange

Underscore your company's commitment to educational excellence.  Gateway sponsorships are currently available.  Contact Bruce Walker brucew@jesandco.org for information.