Teachers are faced with daily challenges like: What standards am I required to teach? Where can I find quality education resources? How do I implement these resources in my classroom? And, given the current economic climate and numerous budget cutbacks, how can I find resources at no cost? The good news is that help is just a click away at www.TheGateway.Org.
The Gateway to 21st Century Skills website provides a wealth of educational materials like lesson plans, instructional units, and classroom activities right at your fingertips. As a teacher, you can discover resources that meet your needs and you can see how each resource is mapped to your specific state standards or the Common Core Standards. If you just want to see your state’s standards, just click the View Your State’s Standards button.
All the 50,000 plus educational resources are made available to you at no cost, thanks to the National Education Association (NEA) sponsorship.
Do you need help finding just the right resource? Check out Joann’s Picks on the Gateway’s home page. Joann chooses new resources each week to cover different topics that are important to today’s teachers. Do you need help integrating resources into your lesson plans? Visit Peggy’s Corner, also on the Gateway homepage. Peggy discusses ways to use Joann’s Picks in the classroom. You can also follow The Gateway, Joann’s Picks and Peggy’s Corner on the Gateway Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/TheGateway.org) and on Twitter (@GatewayToSkills ). Using the Facebook Like button at the top of the resource description, teachers can send resources directly to their Facebook friends with a single click. Resources can also be placed directly to your calendar or emailed to friends and colleagues.
The Gateway to 21st Century Skills is sponsored by the National Education Association and is part of the Global Learning Resource Connection.
About The Gateway to 21st Century Skills
The Gateway has been serving teachers continuously since 1996. It is the oldest publicly accessible U.S. repository of educational resources on the Web and the oldest continuously operating service of its kind in the world. The Gateway is sponsored by the National Education Association (NEA) and supported by over 700 quality contributors.
About the GLRC
The Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) is a public-private collaboration which brings to fruition ongoing work between JES & Co., a U.S. 501(c)(3) education research organization, corporate sponsors and education agencies worldwide. Leading the initial corporate involvement are founding worldwide partners Microsoft, Cisco, Cengage/Gale, the National Education Association (NEA), and other leading corporations in process. The GLRC ties together several significant semantic web technologies developed through funding from the National Science Foundation and is designed to support cyber learning. The GLRC supports the implementation of the mapping of major collections of learning resources in systems around the world to the machine-readable expressions of the learning outcomes based on the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) modeling and technical framework. The work will implement the international linking of those resources through trans-jurisdictional mapping of learning outcomes by means of Semantic Web/Linked Data principles for teacher/learner access and use. For more information about the GLRC, contact Terry Smithson at
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or visit us www.JESandCo.org.
About JES & Co.
JES & Co., a publicly funded 501(c) (3) education research organization, is a leader in research and deployment of education programs based on open standards. With 20 years of experience in interoperability and portability of educational resources, organizations around the world come to JES & Co. for leadership and guidance on education programs and initiatives. Since its establishment in the early 1990s, JES & Co. has led and managed The Achievement Standards Network (ASN), The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, The Gateway to 21st Century Skills (formerly known as GEM), the Dell Academy, the Intel Student Certification Program, and Microsoft’s Partners in Learning. For more information about JES & Co. or the Global Learning Resource Connection, visit www.JESandCo.org.
