Welcome to the Teacher's Toolbox.

This site is designed to aid in the instructional practices for any beginner or experienced teacher.  This page includes some internet sites that have been proven successful in my teaching.

Teaching Resources

Theatre Resources

Understanding learning styles and modalities

wordle

Learning styles questionnaire

National Council of Teachers of English

New Jersey Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Teaching Tolerance

Read  Write and Think

No Child Left Behind

Edutopia.org

Don't Make Me Think

International Society for Technology in Education

BrainConnection

Food For Thought
What Happens Between Assessments?

Interactive Manipulative

New Jersey Core Content Standards

 

Playbill.com

Theatre Development Fund

Paper Mill Playhouse

Studio Players Theatre

Speech and Theatre Teachers of New Jersey

The Playbill Store

Broadway Cares Equity fights AIDS

 

Understanding by Design- Grant Wiggins

Rubrics

 

Essential Question Development Template

Examples PowerPoint

Templates

Current UbD Big Idea: Understandings

Are the Best Curricular Designs "Backward"?

Overview of Understanding By Design

Understanding By Design pdf file (21 pages)

Wiggins and McTighe

Template for Curriculum

From here to where

Additional information on the backward design process:

Backwards Design

Indicators of Teaching for Understanding

Understanding By Design Exchange

Academic Controversy Description /
Academic Controversy Rubric -
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ompliments of Dr. James Tobin

Class discussion / participation rubric

Formal Essay / Speech Rubric