Effective Teaching with Studies Weekly Professional Development on Demand
At Studies Weekly, we are continually looking to help our customers utilize our curriculum and provide you with the resources you need to teach students more effectively. Our goal is to make using Studies Weekly learning materials easy so you can plan less and teach more.
Our online learning platform, Studies Weekly Online, not only has the standards-based, interactive curriculum you need, but also training, lesson plans, graphic organizers, and activities to help you engage students.
Accessing PD on Demand
Once logged into your account, go to the Training and Resources section and click on the Training category to access the PD library.
You’ll find videos for several types of PD training. Onboarding is a great place to start with video tutorials to help you navigate everything from managing publications, adding students, and browsing articles to assigning and customizing assessments or running reports.
Instructional Resources
The Resources category has many classroom planning suggestions, activities, graphic organizers, and suggested lesson plans to help you.
One of the best places to start in this section is the Suggested Instructional Plan PDF. You can download and print it, and use it as a reference as you plan out your weekly units with Studies Weekly.
Other PDFs and how-to videos for instructional tools include:
5E Tool
Reading Label Challenge
Using Primary Source Analysis
Think Pair Share Tool
Document, Video, Artifact, Artwork, Cartoon, Photo, and Map Analysis Tools
See Think Wonder
Annotating Text
Display Trays
Circle Maps
KWL Chart
Cornell Note-Taking
Flipbooks and Triorama How-tos
Interactive Notebooks
We hope the Training and Resources section will be useful as you develop your own teaching style.
For full access to our Training and Resources library, sign in or register for Studies Weekly Online.