Are you a teacher looking for ways to improve the effectiveness of your classroom teaching?
Lumos EdSearch (™) is a tool specifically designed to help you with this. EdSearch empowers teachers by providing access to a large database of standard aligned educational resources to support student learning. It provides convenient access to thousands of educational resources that have been carefully curated by Lumos Learning.
In the recent times, many new methods have been adopted by teachers to make classroom learning more interesting and more personalized to students’ individual needs. EdSearch is a powerful tool which you can use to supercharge your lesson planning and make the lessons interesting and effective.
Let’s look at some of the ways you can use EdSearch as a part of your lesson plan.
Use Videos to help children visualize the concepts
Videos are powerful learning tools as children are able to visualize the various concepts being taught to them. Research has shown that the human brain comprehends information that is captured visually. The brain responds to visuals easier than text or any other kind of learning material format.
EdSearch offers you access to thousands of videos which relates to the concept being taught in class. You can select the most relevant video and assign to your students as a part of their assignment.
Use Apps to make learning interactive and fun
Educational apps are making things easier for children to understand. Children often find books tiring and boring. However, they are able to engage better with mobile apps as they use animations and visually appealing tools. Using EdSearch, you can find hundreds of apps that are relevant to your students and assign them for practice to your students. You could also use the Apps in Classroom and make the classroom learning fun filled and interactive
Practice questions to help students improve skills mastery
As a teacher, it is important for you to know the current standards mastery of your students. With EdSearch you can access thousands of practice questions which have been developed by educators across the globe. You could search for questions and practice tests and try them out. You could also pick questions from different tests to make your own customized assessments and practice test questions that can be assigned to your students. This large repository of educational materials can help you save time as you put together assessments to address the needs of your students.
Practice tests and assessments
EdSearch includes hundreds of assessments that you could use as Formative or Summative assessments. It also includes full-length practice tests such as standardized tests for PARCC, SBAC and other state level assessments.
Discover standard aligned pins (Pinterest)
Thousands of teachers regularly share engaging lesson plans and classroom visuals on Pinterest. EdSearch allows you to discover these visual learning tools and teacher resources.
Lumos EdSearch helps you prepare customized blended learning programs based on individual needs or the classroom needs. To know about EdSearch and experience it, click here.
About Lumos Learning:
Lumos Learning is a publisher of innovative tools that enhance classroom learning for students in Elementary and Middle Schools. It has developed a learning platform that provides engaging learning resources, rigorous assessments and insightful analytics for students and educators. Using the Lumos Study Programs, parents and teachers can reinforce the classroom learning experience for students and help them succeed on the standardized tests. It was started in 2007 and based in Piscataway, New Jersey.
For more information, Contact:
Alice Moore
888-309-8227
alice.moore@lumoslearning.com
