Have you ever visited the website: www.TeachersPayTeachers.com ? Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) is a website that offers free or cheap classroom resources for K-12 teachers such as: power points, anchor charts, lesson plans, and center activities. Teachers can find resources for any grade and any subject (e.g. math, science, and social studies) but the English Language Arts category is the largest with double the resources.
KSRA is exploring this concept for our Educational Resource Committee for several reasons. First, one of our main goals for KSRA is to offer effective and relevant professional development. TpT can provide a platform for KSRA to support teachers as they look for resources to improve their instruction. Second, KSRA has 1,600 members that could provide innovative ideas for teaching reading, writing, speaking, and listening. If everyone would donate a successful lesson plan, we could populate the account quickly. Third, TpT can serve as an alternative, income method for providing KSRA services, such as funding international advocacy campaigns, funding for undergraduate and graduate student scholarships, funding annual conferences, and helping to keep membership costs low.
TpT offers KSRA a direct link to support classroom teachers and reading specialists as they plan, teach, and assess students’ literacy! However, we need your ideas and resources. If you have created a successful lesson plan, power point, or worksheet that supports authentic reading, writing, listening, and speaking, we need to hear from you. At the same time, if you are a student, substitute teacher, or retired teacher who would be willing to work with other classroom teachers to create materials, we need to hear from you. Please do not pass up this opportunity to support teachers and reading specialists. Contact Andy Morrison, firstname.lastname@example.org with suggestions and materials.