There’s a special magic to engaging students throughout the school year, with teachers striving to create new worlds within their classrooms that inspire even the most reticent students to expand learning potential. Transform your classroom into a magical learning experience with Learn360.
For educators, the modern classroom can be an exciting and overwhelming place. Teachers have the amazing power to inspire and make a class entertaining and informative enough so that students absorb the lessons being taught…and the daunting responsibility to make sure their students’ learning meets national and state educational standards while catering to each student’s individual learning needs. There are so many endless possibilities and lots of plates to spin. What steps can you take to keep all the plates floating?
Learn360 can help educators create a learning environment that inspires all students. After all, there’s a reason it’s called “the ultimate streaming video resource for K–12 schools”—more than 26,000 schools across the U.S. and Canada have come to rely on Learn360 for video and multimedia content. Here are just four reasons why.
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Learn360 Helps Teachers Save Time Planning Lessons
According to a survey performed by the National Council on Teacher Quality, the average elementary school teacher only has about one class period per day to plan lessons, about 47 minutes. For secondary teachers, the average amount of lesson planning was around 51 minutes—not much better. This leaves educators with little time to waste when it comes to lesson planning.
Learn360 features tools that put the multimedia resources K–12 educators need to supplement their curriculum instruction right at their fingertips. Learn360’s Topic Centers, for example, bring together videos, interactives, audio, and printables—including more than 1,100 printable ideas, activities, and worksheets from The Mailbox®—for the classroom grouped under 50 curricular subjects in STEAM, social studies, literacy, and community building. These Topic Centers allow teachers to save time looking for appropriate materials and create dynamic lessons that will captivate their students, helping them make real-world connections to what they are learning.
Looking for content that is aligned to educational standards? Check out Learn360’s Browse Standards feature, which allows users to search for content that is aligned to:
- National standards
- Standards for all U.S. and Australian states and Canadian provinces
- International Baccalaureate standards
- Common Core standards
- C3 Framework for Social Studies standards
- College Board AP standards
- AASL standards
- National STEM standards
- Next Generation Science Standards
- 21st Century Skills
In addition, many videos in Learn360 feature helpful educator resources in PDF format—including study guides, teacher guides, quizzes, and more—that will aid lesson planning. Teachers can find these videos via Advanced Search by clicking on the “Only show programs that have educator resources” box under Additional Filters. Plus, Learn360 features the ability to filter the entire platform and all landing pages by grade ranges, allowing users to limit searching and browsing to Elementary (PreK–5) or Middle/High (6–12) media.
Learn360 Engages Students and Ignites Curiosity
In a recent Pew Research Center study, 47% of teachers polled said that one of the biggest problems they have in their classrooms was students showing little or no interest in learning. Among high school teachers, that number rose to 58%.
Learn360 helps educators combat apathy and improve student engagement by giving them access to videos and other media from more than 600 top educational content providers that students will recognize and educators can trust, including PBS, National Geographic, BBC Learning, A&E, CNN, HBO®, Makematic, Doggyland, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street™, The Electric Company, Crayola, Highlights for Children, Franklin, Arthur, and more. In addition to informative and engaging videos, students will also find hundreds of educational games and other interactives that will strengthen their skills and reinforce key lessons while helping them avoid cell phone distractions.
Educators can also customize Learn360’s platform to highlight engaging content aligned to their school or district’s classroom needs, making sure to drive students to the content most relevant to their lessons. Build your own homepage sliders, add your own custom content or YouTube content, and much more.
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Learn360 Supports Differentiated Instruction and Other Learning Styles
Learn360 supports differentiated instruction by providing a wide range of learning objects—videos, audio files, activities, games, worksheets, and more—at all levels from Kindergarten through grade 12 and by offering tools that make including Learn360 media in your curriculum a snap. Teachers can personalize video playlists they assign to students by adding their own custom video introductions to them; they can also add additional videos from the web to round out those playlists. They can also embed quizzes inside assigned videos to assess student learning and engagement—a must for finding and targeting learning gaps.
Learn360 is perfect for blended and hybrid learning, which combines traditional, in-class, face-to-face instruction with online, internet-based training, allowing students to learn and reach their objectives at their own pace. This is especially important for ELL students, students with disabilities, neurodiverse students, and students facing learning gaps due to issues at home. Important features such as closed captions; searchable, interactive transcripts; and translation tools make the content accessible to all learners. Teachers will also find a wealth of supplemental resources they can use to strengthen students’ literacy skills—one of the foundations of all learning.
Learn360 can also be used to flip classrooms: assign a video or playlist on the current topic, then have a discussion or assign a project in the classroom on the key points discussed in the video or playlist.
Plus, Learn360 has a fully responsive interface that makes it easy to use across a wide range of devices anytime, anywhere.
Learn360 Is a Safe Place for Student Research
Every educator knows a key part of any student’s instruction should be familiarizing them with trustworthy, vetted resources for research. Google and YouTube too easily steal the limelight—and too often direct young researchers to mis- or disinformation, inappropriate media for their age group, or even content that is downright harmful to them.
Learn360 provides safe, ad-free content vetted by educators on a platform that allows schools to customize the content to their needs—an excellent place to direct students starting research. Students can find more than 170,000 resources across a broad range of curricular and high-interest topics, including:
- Career Development
- Engineering & Technology
- English/Language Arts
- Health & Guidance
- History
- Mathematics
- Science
- Social Studies
- Visual & Performing Arts
- World Languages
- And more.
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See also:
- Support Health Literacy with These Trusted Resources
- Help Students Master Math with Infobase
- Support Your History Instruction with Curated Multimedia Content
- 5 Creative Ideas for the Elementary School Classroom
- FREE webinar: What’s New in Learn360: Content Ideas to Use in Your Classroom
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