The learning process would not be as efficient and effective without proper learning resource.

Learning resource refers to a material, tool, or experience that facilitates the process of gaining knowledge, developing skills, and nurturing values.

Examples of learning resources are textbooks, worksheets, flashcards and manipulatives.

In the digital era comes new types of learning resources such as e-books, slides, documents, and applications. Added to the benefits: these resources could easily be shared either through online or using wired and wireless connections (Bluetooth, Nearby Share).

While many websites out there are sharing educational resources, it is best to utilize well-designed materials and those that are coming from a trusted site. Proper resources lead to increased academic performance, deeper engagement, and stronger retention of information.

If you’re looking for credible websites? Here are 10 powerful teaching resources to beef-up your lesson preparation and make performance extraordinaire.

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DepEd Tambayan PH

DepEd Tambayan PH is one of the country’s most popular websites for news about the education sector and site to download teaching resources. They have almost everything you need: self-learning modules, lesson plans, activity sheets, periodical exam samples, MELCs & teaching guides, PMES forms, DLP generators, curriculum and more.

In addition, they provide up-to-date information on DepEd activities and programs, teachers’ benefits and seminars, new guidelines, and more.

Such valuable resources are available both on their website and social media pages.

DepEd Club

DepEd Club is another popular resource website for teachers. They provide learning activity sheets, lesson plans, stories, PowerPoint presentations, forms, and other files.

What’s commendable about this platform is that their files are of higher quality than other websites offering free resources.

These files are at par with some files being sold on social media by some educators. Hence, if you want it free – get it here.

DepEd SDO Muntinlupa LR Portal

The efforts poured in by SDO Muntinlupa in this resource is commendable. They provide materials for the National Reading Program, MATATAG learning materials, lesson scripts (Elementary to Senior High), catch-up Friday, educational games, e-books, video lessons, Gawad Teodora Alfonso Storybooks.

In addition, they also have National Learning Camp modules, short stories, ARAL reading resources, and more.

The LR Portal, per SDO Muntinlupa, seeks to become a trusted companion in your educational journey through a one-stop-hub for accessing wealth of educational materials.

Teacher PH

A brainchild of Mark Anthony Llego who grew up surrounded by educators which instilled in him the passion of education. This is an excellent resource for those want to learn a wide variety of information – detailed explanations on DepEd guidelines, issues in the education sector, suggestions and ideas for teachers, and other articles.

Likewise, the website provides files, review tips and materials for examinations like teachers’ board, NQESH, English Proficiency Test.

It provides guidelines on DepEd hiring process, principals’ test, and schools’ division superintendents’ examination.

Cher Berna TV

An educator in Key Stage 1 particularly Grade 1 requires a lot of visual aids (and it must be very colorful, very attractive for kids) – and the time it requires to create one takes a long time (hard work).

Thankfully, there are teachers like Cher Berna who generously shares her outputs on her Facebook account. These includes activity sheets, reading materials, spelling words, and more. Premium products that should be paid in premium price but provided for free.

Aside from that, Cher Berna has packages of DepEd MATATAG-aligned lesson plans, PowerPoints, lesson logs, worksheets and others that educators can purchase. Her price is minimal – and a jackpot for a teacher who wants to lessen her class preparation while delivering lessons with topnotch materials.

DepEd LRMDS

The Learning Resources Management and Development System (LRMDS) is a teaching resource created by DepEd. It is designed to support increased distribution and access to learning, teaching and professional development resources.

Materials in LRMDS has undergone extensive scrutiny and was quality assured through the DepEd schools, divisions, and regional offices.

Sirib Ta Bannag

Sirib Ta Bannag is another excellent resource portal for educational materials from DepEd SDO Cagayan. Here, you can find self-learning modules from Kindergarten to Senior High School, audio repository of learning materials, consolidated podcasts.

An initiative as part of the SDO’s commitment to rallying towards providing quality basic education for Cagayano learners.

Kto5 Learning

Children’s brains are like sponges and can learn a lot if given if the opportunity, a belief that continues to propel the individuals behind K5 Learning to provide high quality, free worksheets and inexpensive workbooks for K-5.

In this website, you can find a lot of free worksheets on mathematics, reading, vocabulary, spelling, science, writing, and more.

These are free and printable, wonderfully arranged, and of high quality.

DepEd Vigan City

The Schools Division of Vigan City has uploaded ARAL Materials on their website. These comprises of learner’s workbooks and tutor’s guide from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2. They also provide supplementary materials.

ARAL-Reading Program refers to Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning Program in Reading. This seeks to provide timely, responsive, and effective support to learners who fall below the expected reading proficiency levels.

Moreover, they provide storytelling videos, big books for KS1 learners, and more.

Scribd

Scribd is a digital document library. Here, you can access tens of millions of documents across many topics. These documents include a lot of excellent resources for educators – lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, literatures.

Subscription to Scribd is minimal and you’ll get tons of value. Users can upload documents on the platform, and many educators do. Many are of high quality as these are, as is, the documents the uploader-educators use and are using in their everyday teaching.

Final Thoughts

Teaching resources refer to materials and tools that educators use to facilitate learning. These materials enhance the teaching-learning process. Teacher-creativity plus proper utilization leads to excellent teacher performance.

Problem is that preparation of these materials would require a lot of time. For example, a typical PowerPoint lesson would require an hour or more to prepare – and many teachers especially in the elementary have lots of subjects to teach.

Thankfully, there are websites that provide excellent teaching resources for free and others for a minimal fee. This reduces workload for the teacher while teaching quality.