Lesson Planning Tools for Teachers | In Context: For Educators

Learning → Differentiated

What happens when educators have access to high-quality, multidisciplinary instructional content, ready-made lesson plans, collaboration features, and tools to differentiate learning for grades K–12? They’re able to effectively plan instruction and focus more on engaging students in the classroom.

With Gale In Context: For Educators, your school can depend on powerful instructional tools and continuously improved content and technology. From material that’s updated daily to new features added regularly, ongoing enhancements enable you to elevate everyday learning and create an environment where both students and educators thrive.

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Find out what educators have to say about Gale In Context: For Educators as a collaborative instructional tool.

Provide Standards-Aligned Content

With a subscription to Gale In Context resources, students and teachers have access to a variety of primary sources, experiments, case studies, academic journals, magazines, newspapers, books, images, podcasts, and videos. And with lesson plans to support core social studies, English language arts (ELA), literacy, and science subjects, as well as financial literacy, essential skills, and career and technical education (CTE) programs, accessing classroom resources for teachers and integrating this trusted content into instruction is easier than ever.
Set Teachers Up for Success

As every school leader knows, in order for students to succeed, teachers have to be successful first. Even when schools and districts have the technology ecosystem to support digital learning, it can be challenging for teachers to find the most effective ways to use digital resources as a supplemental tool to support daily instruction.

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Have a Greater Impact on Student Outcomes

Find out how you can use the current, trusted content within Gale In Context to meet the needs of everyone in your learning community. Review findings from a yearlong study conducted by Gale and Project Tomorrow^® and discover the benefits of using educational digital resources and their impact on student outcomes. And explore ESSA Tier 4 evidence that shows how Gale In Context: For Educators demonstrates a rationale for improving outcomes.

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Curriculum Alignment

Support curriculum with instructional materials, lesson plans, and classroom activities aligned to national and state standards.

Collaboration Tools

Create personal content sets for organizing classroom materials to share with students and colleagues via LMS or Google Classroom.

Differentiation Tools

Leverage the document tool panel to customize content, including adjusting the reading level of Gale content to meet students’ needs.

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Find curriculum-aligned instructional content by state or national standards.

Browse content aligned to units and topics within your course curriculum.

Easily customize resources and share using LMS, Google, or Microsoft tools.

Create curated text sets and use simple tools to organize assignments.

Fueled by Gale In Context Student Resources

Gale In Context student resources meet the needs of today’s learners with a user-friendly, mobile-responsive design. Eye-catching, engaging, topical databases seamlessly integrate trusted content with curriculum-aligned materials that span core subjects and provide educational resources for teachers, including Biography, Canada, Environmental Studies, Global Issues, Literature, Opposing Viewpoints, Science, U.S. History, and World History. Gale In Context: For Educators is also powered by Gale In Context: Elementary, Gale In Context: Middle School, and Gale In Context: High School resources.