NYS
Teacher Centers Public-Private Partnerships
SAS Curriculum Pathways
http://www.sascurriculumpathways.com/
The New York
Institute of Technology (NYIT) and NYS Teacher Centers
have partnered with SAS Curriculum Pathways to deliver
professional development and training that will support
the integration of high quality, secondary resources in
classrooms throughout NYS. SAS Curriculum Pathways is
designed to enhance student achievement and teacher
effectiveness by providing free award winning Web-based
curriculum resources in all the core disciplines. SAS
Curriculum Pathways uses a broad range of instructional
strategies and techniques, targets higher-order thinking
skills and employs a learner-centered approach.
Please contact the Middletown Teacher Center for the
unique login for teachers and students.
The
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) and New York
State Teacher Centers are proud to be involved with the
roll out of the Professor Garfield. Grade K-8 resources
for teachers, parents and students. The Professor
Garfield Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c) (3)
educational collaboration between Paws, Inc., the global
headquarters for Garfield the Cat, and Ball State
University, a nationally recognized leader in teacher
training and digital education.
The mission of
the Professor Garfield foundation is to be a
world leader in the direct, free delivery of
innovative and motivational digital learning
content with a primary emphasis on children’s
literacy and cyber safety. The site contains fun
and educationally sound interactive activities
and games where kids like to play — on the
Internet — supplemented with standards-based
resources for teachers, parents and mentors.
NYS Teachers Centers train teachers in how to
integrate these resources effectively in their
instruction to support all students.
Late Breaking
News! Announcing a contest for
students in K-2 to create a Comic on the topic of
Bullying!
Website Entry Link:
http://sites.google.com/site/tooncontest
Verizon Thinkfinity,
ThinkfinityNY
http://www.thinkfinity.org/,
www.thinkfinityny.org/alignment.php
The New York Institute of
Technology (NYIT) and NYS Teacher Centers are the
roll-out leaders in New York State for Thinkfinity.org,
a free, comprehensive digital learning platform, built
upon the merger of two acclaimed programs: Verizon
Thinkfinity and the Thinkfinity Literacy Network.
Thinkfinity.org is the cornerstone of Verizon
Foundation’s Literacy, Education and Technology
initiatives. Its goal is to improve student achievement
in traditional classroom settings and beyond by
providing high-quality content and extensive
professional development training. As the roll-out
leaders, NYIT and NYS Teacher Centers provide teachers
with customized content/grade-level specific
professional development in order to effectively
integrate these free exemplary learning resources into
instruction. Additionally, specialized trainings are
available for using Thinkfinity content with interactive
whiteboards. Over a three-month period, the Thinkfinity
NY website averages 300,000 hits by 34,000 unique
visitors from every area of NYS. The professional
development does not end with classroom teachers, as
training is available for community based organizations,
colleges and universities. Partner resource sites are
continually updating their content. Check back
frequently!
Intel Teach Program
http://intelgrad.NYIT.edu/
As the Intel® Teach
Affiliate in New York State, the New York Institute of
Technology (NYIT) works through the New York State
Teacher Centers to provide professional development for
K-16 leaders and educators through a series of
nationally and internationally validated courses. These
courses lead teachers through the development of
instructionally sound lessons which appropriately
integrate technology while meeting the NYS content
standards. Participants design unit plans infused with
technology, 21st century learning and higher-order
thinking skills.
There are also courses
which focus on STEM initiatives (science, technology,
engineering and math) and a special leadership course
designed to provide instructional leaders and
administrators with the ability to plan and implement
21st century strategies into their schools. Intel® Teach
offers courses through NYS Teacher Centers.
Educational Enterprise Zone (EEZ)
Museums, Zoos and Other Cultural Institutions
http://www.nyiteez.org/
The New York Institute of
Technology (NYIT) Educational Enterprise Zone, in
cooperation with NYS Teacher Centers, brings hundreds of
live interactive sessions connecting schools and
libraries to museums and cultural centers via web 2.0
and videoconferencing. All classrooms can now have
access to these exciting resources throughout New York
State, the country and the world. The EEZ will enable
every school, library and community organization in NYS
to have access to the highest level of content with the
use of simple and inexpensive webcams and speakers.
WNET
http://vital.thirteen.org
WNET has
partnered with NYIT and the NYS Teacher Centers
to promote access and to provide training for
the exciting VITAL program. In
partnership with Channel 13/WNET, NY Teacher
Centers will be working on training models to
insure the most effective use of this free,
standards aligned video system. VITAL has a
collection of over 2,000 resources for teachers
and students, including Regents- Review Live!
Resources, Teachers Domain materials and
high-quality PBS content. PBS will be working
with us to create a training model in both
traditional face to face formats as well as
on-line formats. Stay tuned for more
information about this exciting and valuable
program, but please feel free to start utilizing
the service and to place the link to the
resource on your website.
Thinkquest-Oracle
http://www.thinkquest.org/en/
The New York
Institute of Technology (NYIT) and New York
State Teacher Centers are pleased to partner
with the Oracle Foundation to bring to schools
across the state a learning platform where
teachers and students create learning projects.
Participants in Thinkquest develop 21st century
skills such as critical thinking, teamwork,
communications, creativity, technology, self
direction, and cross cultural understanding. The
Oracle Education Foundation offers K-12 schools
a safe environment at no cost. Thinkquest is
password protected, teacher monitored, and
includes no advertising. Training and
information will be coming soon.
Faulkes-Telescope
Project
http://www.faulkes-telescope.com
The Faulkes-Telescope
Project, partner of Las Cumbres Observatory
Global Telescope Network, provides LIVE access
to a global network of telescopes and supplies
free resources for research- based Science
education. NY State Teachers are pleased to
partner with this project in support of NYS STEM
initiatives. Teacher Centers are the providers
of professional development and support for this
exciting K-12 opportunity.
Google Education http://www.google.com
The newest
technology partner for NYS Teacher Centers and
NYIT, New York follows Oregon, Iowa, Colorado
and Maryland as the fifth and largest state to
bring Google Apps access to K-12 classrooms and
will join more than 8 million students and
teachers using Google Apps. Stay tuned for more
info on this exciting rollout for your schools,
teachers and students! Here’s more information:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/im-in-google-apps-state-of-mind.html
Tell Me More
http://www.tellmemore.com/
A global leader
in offering online foreign language courses and
CD-ROM software for learning a second language.
English learning software, as well as Spanish,
French. Chinese. Japanese, Arabic, German Dutch
language learning at many levels has been used
(as Auralog) by educators, business people and
government agencies to increase language
learning.
Online Academy (OLA)
http://eeznt3.nyiteez.org/olacatalog/
NYS Teacher
Centers offer educators the opportunity to
pursue their own educational goals anytime,
anywhere by providing high quality, facilitated,
and standards-based online course work. Featured
are classes in Instructional Strategies, Special
Education, Science, Social Studies, Humanities,
Math, Technology and ELA. The NYS Teacher Center
Online Academy consists of totally web-based,
15-hour inservice credit courses and targeted
webinars. They are offered both statewide and
locally throughout the year for teachers and
other educational staff and adhere to the
rigorous Standards for Online Learning. All OLA
Instructors receive special training, offered
through NYIT, in developing their online
courses. Ask how your educational association or
organization may become part of the NYSTC Online
Academy, with classes designed to suit your
specific curricular needs! The OLA will also
support teachers as they learn how to work with
students in the virtual environment, from credit
recovery, course delivery or use of an extended
learning environment. High quality coursework
and accessible ease of use have spurred strong
interest in the OLA.
Click here to view the Winter 2011 course
offerings.
