A collection of resources or links to other web sites.
Alternative Assessment
This link provides a "list of ERIC definitions for concepts related to alternative assessment is from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation . These terms may be used as descriptors or identifiers when searching the ERIC database.
ArtsEdge
ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.
Assessment in Kindergarten
Besides needing to report students' growth to family through progress reports, report cards, and conferences, assessments taken in Kindergarten are essential to gaining insight into how much students are growing and learning in your kindergarten program and to adjust the way you teach to better meet their needs. Kindergarten teachers tend to assess in a variety of ways.
Assessment Strategies with related websites
A concise list of assessment strategies useful to preservice students thinking through assessment possibilities. Includes a list of related web addresses.
Authentic Assessment (Coalition of Essential Schools)
Authentic assessment asks students to apply their knowledge and skills in the same way they would be used in the "real world". The assessment is performance-based and requires each student to exhibit their in-depth knowledge and understanding through a demonstration of mastery.
Classroom Organization
Here are some simple guidelines to help you make your classroom teacher, learner, and community friendly.
Constitutional Rights Foundation Online Lesson Plans
Constitutional Rights Foundation seeks to instill in our nation's youth a deeper understanding of citizenship through values expressed in our Constitution and its Bill of Rights and to educate young people to become active and responsible participants in our society. CRF is dedicated to assuring our country's future by investing in our youth today.
Constructing School Partnerships with Families and Community Groups
Educators sometimes are content to let parents and families take the initiative in becoming involved in their children's education. But for a real partnership to occur, educators must look at ways in which the school can initiate this involvement.
Controlling Aggressive Behavior
Produced in conjunction with the Council for Exceptional Children, this web page consists of a series of links to useful resources. These resources include an incident report, decision making sheet, blank behavior contract, conference documentation form and more.
Curriculum planning
It is the very nature of a teacher's work to address a huge range of issues throughout the planning process in the preparation, development and implementation of a teaching and learning program. This site from Victoria, Australia presents an international perspective to consider.
Disabilities: Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are disorders faced by many families today. Kidsource has brought together their best articles here in this section.
Disabilities: Learning Disabilities
The area of Learning Disabilities is quite broad, and here KidSource has brought together the best articles they've found, including those on education & disabilities and speech & language development.
Discovery School
Find hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers. Use the pull-down menus below to browse by subject, grade, or both.
EconEdLink
EconEdLink, one of the MarcoPolo partners, is a program of the National Council on Economic Education. Centered on curriculum standards and the essential principles of economics, it provides a source of lesson materials.
Emotional Intelligence (Info Site by Steve Hein)
This site is by Steve Hein, author of EQ for Everybody. The site is based on the belief that one of the keys to improving society is improving the way we meet each other's emotional needs.
Establishing a Supportive Classroom Environment
Classes with a positive emotional climate are characterized by a sense of connection, curiosity, and intellectual excitement. However, other classes experience a pervasive sense of negativity among students, overt hostility expressed by many people in the course, or resistance to completing assignments or participating.
Family-School-Community Parnerships
Harvard Family Research Project's focus on family-school-community partnerships is based on the premise that family involvement is critical to children's academic achievement and social development. Our goal is to support the development of this field, consisting of the programs, organizations, institutions, and people dedicated to engaging families, schools, and communities to work in partnership for positive student outcomes.
Games, Parents, Teachers.com
Most kids know they are learning a tremendous amount that is positive from the video and computer games they play (read more) , but there is often a problem communicating this information to parents and teachers. This site is about helping all parties -- Kids, Parents and Teachers -- bridge that gap, in order to help kids extract the maximum learning from their games, while still keeping them fun.
Gifted and Talented Students
When a child is gifted or talented, their parents and educators are faced with many issues and challenges. These articles and digests provide ideas, guidance and activities for both parents and educators of gifted students.
Humanities on the Web (EDSITEment)
EDSITEment, offers the Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
Introduction to Mentoring Practices
This publication has been prepared by the Training and Development Directorate of the NSW Department of Education and Training to further promote discussion on mentoring and foster professional learning in the first years of teaching. It brings together some of the national and international literature in the area pointing out new areas for research.
Learning Disabilities Pride (ldpride.net)
Information about learning styles and Multiple Intelligence (MI) is helpful for everyone especially for people with learning disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder. Knowing a one's learning style will help one develop coping strategies to compensate for weaknesses and capitalize on strengths.
Making Learning Easier: Connecting New Knowledge to Things Students already Know
The Institute for Academic Access (IAA)
is a collaborative partnership between
faculty and staff at the University of
Kansas and the
University of Oregon. The
primary goal of the IAA is to determine
ways to improve the educational outcomes
for adolescents with disabilities
by designing instructional methods that
take into account the students’ unique
characteristics and the complex dynamics
that are unique to high-school curricula
and schools.
Mathematics (Illuminations from NCTM)
The NCTM Illuminations Web site is designed to illuminate the new vision for school mathematics presented in NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.
Pathfinder Science
Pathfinder Science is a virtual community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires a passion for learning about the material world through science. This Collaborative Research community grew from an attempt to fulfill the vision of national efforts to reform science and technology education.
Personality Theories
This is an electronic textbook ("e-text") created for undergraduate and graduate courses in Personality Theories. While it is copyrighted, you may download it or print it out without permission from the author, as long as the material is used only for personal or educational purposes, and the source is indicated.
Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation
Manuscripts published in Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation are scholarly syntheses of research and ideas about issues and practices in education. They are designed to help members of the community keep up-to-date with effective methods, trends and research developments.
Profiles of Selected School-Community Partnerships
This page is the index page from which you may link to profiles of selected school-community partnerships in California. In each description, the site provides you with background on how the program got started, its goals and activities, management structure, coordination with schools, staffing information, number of schoolsites and students served, funding, and program evaluation findings.
Program for Refining Educational Partnerships
During the 1996-2000 Regional Educational Laboratory contract, SEDL's work in this area featured the development and refinement of a collaborative process for building school-home-community partnerships. Together, school, home, community, and student representatives share responsibility for identifying pressing educational issues and implementing action plans to address them.
Read - Write - Think (International Reading Association & NCTE)
ReadWriteThink, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.
Reflection
This web page offers a few definitions on reflection and links for teacher training.
School, Family, Community Partnerships
This Knowledge Loom spotlight presents research-based principles for effective practices that can be used in schools and districts to develop School/Family/Community Partnerships that support improved student achievement. The content has been prepared by RMC Research Corporation , a leader in educational research and services.
Building Relationships for Student Success: School-Family-Community Partnerships and Student Achievement in the Northwest
Partnerships by Design: Cultivating Effective and Meaningful School-Family-Community Partnerships
Planning for Youth Success
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School/Community Partnerships: Selected Resources
Source:National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, November 2003. For additional resource lists on these and other service‑learning topics visit the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Website at http://www.servicelearning.org.
Science NetLinks (AAAS)
Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students.
SimuLearn web site
Clark Aldrich, author of Simulations andthe Future of Learning as well as Learning by Doing is the key figure behind this business-oriented web site that promotes the Virtual Leader simulation. We promote his books elsewhere, and direct you to his site right here.
Social Impact Games
The goal of this site is to catalog the growing number of video and computer games whose primary purpose is something other than to entertain. These are also known as "serious games.".
Teaching Educational Games (wiki of resources)
David Wiley said, in sharing this resources on ITFORUM:
"You might enjoy the Educational Games Wiki we used during our presentation at Games, Learning, and Society yesterday. In addition to loading it up with materials before hand, we had 60 resource additions during the presentation itself..
Teaching Methods SIMULATIONS AND GAMES
A classroom should be a place of fun as well as instruction. Student motivation can increase with the use of games to reinforce skills and concepts learned.
TrackStar Themes and Standards
TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. If you choose to view the lists in "frames" view, the resource list remains visible allowing the user to easily stay on track while searching for good resources.
Understand Your Students
Who are your students? What backgrounds and experiences do they bring to class which influence how they learn from you?.
Webquest
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
Xpeditions
Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards and to thousands of ideas,tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life.
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