During the school year, applicants videotape their classroom instruction, submit lesson plans and student work samples, and write essays reflecting on how they help students learn.
Since launch, TED-Ed's YouTube channel and its corresponding call to educators and animators to submit lesson ideas and animations has attracted 2.4 million views, 42K subscribers, and 3K comments, and more importantly, the interest of both educators and brands.
More than half a million people have used the site and close to 1,000 developers submitted sample lessons to help others learn how to program.
Already, more than 800 developers have submitted sample lessons, which the Codecademy founders hope to add to the Web site soon.
The 40-page test requires student teachers to submit several lesson plans and explain how they measure learning and adapt lessons to their special-needs students.
I was told to re-submit my lesson plans ASAP, as well as those for the following week.
But within a year, she began to feel that the school's independence had created its own frustrations for teachers: suddenly, for example, they were required to attend staff development days but they were not allowed to ask questions; they had to submit daily lesson plans but did not get any feedback.
As a professor, I had to research my subject and submit actual lesson plans and materials.
Codecademy originally started off with a batch of lessons created in-house, but it's just started to roll out user-submitted lessons as well.
Once submitted, the completed lesson ideas where securely stored on the Zoomerang website and then downloaded to a local computer for analysis.
