Having strong STEM subject-area foundations will equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to be college and career ready. The Oklahoma State Department of Education collaborates with Oklahoma educators to develop and identify high-quality resources for teachers and districts. Oklahoma resources include the Oklahoma EdTech Toolkit, guidance documents and research, virtual professional development modules, and access to instructional communities for professional growth.
There are numerous templates available online to help teachers quickly create lessons and presentations as well as other tools to support learning or to help promote community in classrooms. This database is a quick resource for teachers. All of the resources are able to be used or modified to best meet Oklahoma Academic Standards provided credit is given to the original creator.
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed learning materials for teachers to use in instruction. Many resources are now available and new resources are being created daily. The list below is some of the more popular content libraries. To learn more about Open Educational Resources, read this Edutopia article: Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup.
New guidance from the Federal Communications Commission clarifies new CIPA requirements related to Internet safety policy. Under the new law, school districts must update their Internet safety policies on or before July 1, 2012.
These policies must provide:
Additional curriculum resources can be found at: