If you taught before the internet

[Anonymous]

Where did you get your resources from, such as worksheets, quizzes, and tests?

[Anonymous]

I taught before the internet and still do now. I'd never use a quiz or test from the internet.

I got my worksheets from published curriculum.

[Anonymous]

We used textbooks and the worksheets and other resources that came with them.

[Anonymous]

Went to a teacher store and looked for books of blackline masters (worksheets, etc.) that could be xeroxed, and/or ordered such things from mail order catalogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We used textbooks and the worksheets and other resources that came with them.

Yes, district provided resources

[Anonymous]

Resources others have listed and also made our own things.

[Anonymous]

We went to the teacher supply store for resource books and passed the resource books around. We had cabinets full of resources that grade levels shared. And we made our own.

[Anonymous]

We actually had a curriculum that had textbooks and workbooks. I also subscribed to the monthly mailbox workbook that had worksheets I could photocopy.

[Anonymous]

Textbooks, teacher store resources, and created our own. The amount of time I put into creating my own resources now is unreal. But on the other hand, in some ways my teaching is much the better for it; I mostly teach literacy to English learners. I used to have to work pretty hard to find objects or magazine photos to help me build their background knowledge, but I can now do it with high quality photos and videos. So I put more time into those lessons, but the return I get (students able to visualize and understand new vocabulary and concepts) is definitely worth it.

Of course, I wish my district would pay some curriculum developers to do some of this work for me.

[Anonymous]

Started teaching in 2005. So, internet existed but I didn't use it for resources.

My county provided it all: math curriculum and reading: (textbooks, manuals, materials).

Everything else was copied worksheets from other teachers who had been there for years. Either from purchased workbooks or made themselves.

I did make some worksheets simply on word documents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We actually had a curriculum that had textbooks and workbooks. I also subscribed to the monthly mailbox workbook that had worksheets I could photocopy.

+1
I loved Mailbox.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We actually had a curriculum that had textbooks and workbooks. I also subscribed to the monthly mailbox workbook that had worksheets I could photocopy.

+1
I loved Mailbox.

We still have cabinets full of them! I still use them from time to time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Went to a teacher store and looked for books of blackline masters (worksheets, etc.) that could be xeroxed, and/or ordered such things from mail order catalogs.

This. Home schooling supply companies usually have many curricula for sale, and often this includes the same ones a public or private school is using.

[Anonymous]

I wrote them myself. Very occasionally I'd use something another teacher shared, but materials created by somebody else never really matched what I was emphasizing in my classes, even if multiple sections used the same textbook.

[Anonymous]

I would go to Barnes and Noble in their school section to buy workbooks, Mailbox magazines, and the teacher store! Now I think everyone uses TPT!