Welcome Fellow Educators
Midwest Teachers Institute was co-founded by teachers, so we are dedicated to supporting our fellow educators throughout the U.S. From providing free E-books and helpful tips to sharing best practices, we want to help teachers thrive in and out of the classroom. We are committed to assisting teachers in order to foster deeper engagement and opportunities for students to excel. We want to do our part in making the lives of today’s busy teachers a bit easier, because we’re teachers too.
We are continuously working to find and create the best FREE resources for our community of teachers. Be sure to check back often as we frequently update this page. And feel free to let us know if you would like to contribute your great ideas, the more we all help, the more we all benefit.
What’s Changed in Lesson Planning
By Jacqui Murray Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened, homework as worksheets, and tests regurgitating facts. Did I miss anything?...
Snow Day? 7 Ways to Keep Teaching
By Jacqui Murray To meet state and national requirements (and receive critical funding), schools must be open a minimum number of days each year. When dramatic weather hits -- be it snow or violent storms or another emergency -- it becomes impossible to reach the...
New Ways to Gamify Learning
By Jacqui Murray The first thing most teachers think about when discussing gamified learning is the online math games kids play. Maybe Vocabulary.com and its spelling games come to mind next. But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started....
How to Talk to a Tech Teacher
By Jacqui Murray There's always been something mystical about people in technical professions--engineering, science, mathematics. They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of mathematical functions, even smile at the mention of calculus. The...