How to Teach With Microsoft Support Tools

Getting a student's attention and reinforcing lessons can be a challenge for any teacher. Finding lesson plans and making classroom newsletters often take up a teacher's personal time. Microsoft offers many tools for educators. Students learn tools and practices to help them in their professional lives -- and educators can search for lesson plans, grade templates and create interactive PowerPoint presentations. Teachers also have access to Web casts to increase classroom productivity and newsletters full of information about how Microsoft is working with other educators.

1 - Access the Microsoft education website. Find valuable information including lesson plans, world wide telescope and mouse mischief. World wide telescope is a virtual telescope that uses the Hubble to look at constellations and planets. Give students a close-up view of the Milky Way, while using the lesson plans to reinforce what they have seen. Mouse mischief gives educators the chance to prepare a PowerPoint presentation for students; the students click on the correct answers.

2 - Visit the Microsoft Developer Network website. Educators learn about the different programs offered by Microsoft, ways to implement the tools and descriptions of what ages or grades the programs are meant for. Microsoft Dream Spark is offered to college and high school students enrolled in an accredited University or secondary institution. Dream Spark gives students the tools they need to succeed in math, science and technical design. Microsoft Academic Alliance gives educators and students increased access to technology. The aim of Microsoft Academic Alliance is to promote better educator teaching in technical areas, and to give students a head start for employment by providing tools essential to the global economy.

3 - Microsoft Office helps educators teach reading by providing tools to help students focus on words, tones and ideas when writing. The goal is to steer students away from the technical process and teach using a more creative approach by showing how an idea can come together to form a story. Grammar and spelling tools point out some mistakes, but students learn to recognize the correct word spelling and proper grammar usage using the tools in this program.

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