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Educator's guide
A guide intended for use by educator's as a supplement to a lesson or unit plan.
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The Peaks and Valleys of Online Professional Development
Online professional development (PD) fits today’s fast changing K-12 educational environment where demands on teachers and re-certification require teachers to continually learn new and challenging content and pedagogy. This paper draws on two online professional development projects to discuss what is valuable about online PD, identify some successes, some problems, and provide tips for those doing online PD.
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"Facilitating Discussion: A Brief Guide" by Katherine K. Gottschalk
Discussion helps students become not just ready receptacles for our wisdom but active participants in learning. They can develop new interests, figure out what they believe, or don't believe, and, in general, gain confidence in their intellectual abilities.
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A Theory-Based Meta-Analysis of Research on Instruction - Marzano
This publication analyzes and synthesizes the results of more than 100 research reports on instruction, using categories specific and functional enough to provide guidance for classroom practice. Key�Ideas�� This meta-analysis examines four aspects of human learning: the self system, the metacognitive system, the cognitive system, and the knowledge domains.
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Academic Controversy
ERIC Digest on Academic Controversy - Both theoretical and practical reasons support the belief that arousing intellectual conflict is one of the most important and powerful instructional procedures available to teachers.
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Asking the Essential Questions: Curriculum Development
This link takes you to the Coalition for Essential Schools, where it is asked: What are the aims of a high school curriculum? Getting to a clear answer is the necessary first step in rethinking a school's curriculum. But to commit oneself, as Essential Schools do, to the idea that the goal of education is to get students to use their minds well is to take the deceptively simple first step in rethinking our entire system of education.
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Assessing Digital Videos
Assessing student produced digital video requires the same amount of preparation and consideration as other more traditional assignments. You will find ideas for assessing student produced digital video in this area including links to sites that allow you to customize rubrics to fit a specific project.
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Assessment in Music (Texas Framework)
The pages in this web site discuss internal assessment, developed within the school, and external assessment, developed outside the school but often required, and how they can be combined to help students and teachers better assess music learning.
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Assessment in the Early Childhood Classroom
Early Childhood Assessment is composed of three essential, interrelated components:1. Documentation (data collection) 2.
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Classroom Climate
Establishing a positive classroom climate enhances academic achievement and helps to promote appropriate classroom behaviour.
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Classroom Organization
Here are some simple guidelines to help you make your classroom teacher, learner, and community friendly.
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Cooperative Learning
This website addresses- What is cooperative learning? Why use cooperative learning? What makes cooperative groups work? Positive interdependence. Face-to-face promotive interaction.
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Cooperative Learning Response to Diversity
Dedicated teachers are always looking for better ideas for meeting the many challenges they face in school, especially as diversity increases in the student population. Cooperative learning methods provide teachers with effective ways to respond to diverse students by promoting academic achievement and cross-cultural understanding.
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Creating a Learner-Centered Environment
The environment we create for our students is equally as important as the content we teach and the learning strategies we use. This applies to all teachers of all age groups from preschool to graduate school.
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Creating Essential Questions
Essential Questions develop foundational understandings. They provide the fundamental organizing principles that bound an inquiry and guide the development of meaningful, authentic tasks.
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Curriculum Development - North Carolina guides and model
This Web page reviews the curriculum building process, provides files which contain models for the design of lesson plans and unit plans and also provides links to indexes of actual lesson and unit plans.
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Decisions & Dilemmas of Electronic Portfolios
This powerpoint goes deep into questions about setting up an electronic portfolio system, be David Gibson.
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Facilitating Equitable Class Discussions in a Multicultural Classroom
Topically focused class discussions potentially offer English learners rich exposure to new vocabulary and usage in their second language, along with opportunities to interact in a variety of academic situations - reporting information, summarizing, synthesizing, and debating. Frequently, however, linguistically and culturally diverse students remain passive participants in whole-class discussions for varied reasons, including insecurity about their listening comprehension, pronunciation, word choice, and culturally appropriate interactional strategies.
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Facilitating Group Work with Technology
Many teachers find that using students as peer educators in or outside of class can be a productive strategy for encouraging active learning in their courses. Group work usually leads to more student participation and involvement with course issues, ideas, and skills.
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Framing Essential Questions
This link has material that first appeared in a series of six articles published by Technology Connection commencing in May, 1995. The series outlined the seven stages required to complete a full research investigation using a model called the Research Cycle.
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From Trivial Pursuit to Essential Questions
Sometimes we ask students to pursue answers to questions that are not worthy of much effort or attention. In this article by McKensie it says "When we limit students to trivial pursuit, we make a mockery of authentic research and deprive them of a chance to explore the tough issues, choices, dilemmas and questions that really matter."
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Fundamental Assessment Principles for Teachers and School Administrators
This article presents eleven "basic principles" to guide the assessment training and professional development of teachers and administrators.
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Group Work in Discussion Sections
It is not difficult or time-consuming to incorporate group work activities into your lesson plans, but there are some general rules-of-thumb about structuring group work well. Here are some basic guidelines to consider.
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Helping Adult Learners Plan for Success
Although written to help adult learners, this article has some good advice for helping all learners plan for success.
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Hunter Lesson Plan Design
This site uses the HUNTER Model for the planning of our lessons; Madeline Hunter taught at the lab school at UCLA and was very involved in researching the methods that good teachers use in presenting their lessons. Dr.
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Interdisciplinary Curiculum Planning
(Adapted from Carla Mathison and Cheryl Mason, College of Education, San Diego State University, Planning Interdisciplinary Curriculum: A Systematic and Cooperative Approach; presentation to: ASCD Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, 1989).
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Introduction to Electronic Portfolios
This presentation, which has been given in several national and international conferences, is one starting point for discussion about electronic portfolios such as the eFolio, by David Gibson.
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Learning to Discipline by M. Metzger
At the start of her teaching career, Ms. Metzger confesses, she ricocheted between being a drill sergeant and Mary Poppins.
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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.
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Math Star Essential Questions
What is an essential question? Questions that probe for deeper meaning and set the stage for further questioning foster the development of critical thinking skills and higher order capabilities such as problem-solving and understanding complex systems. A good essential question is the principle component of designing inquiry-based learning.
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Network-based Assessment
This powerpoint outlines a vision and framework elements for assessment facilitated by technology.
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Parent-School-Community Partnerships in Secondary Schools
This article on the national PTA web site is geared to parents and has an informal summary of well-being and resilience research.
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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.
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Physical Setting
The set up of the classroom depends upon the teaching style of the teacher, learning styles of the student, and the type of teaching system used.
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Playing to Learn: Games, simulations and virtual environments in online learning.
This powerpoint was the Sloan-C Plenary by David Gibson in November 2006.
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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.
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Scalable Persuasion - SITE 2006 PT3 Panel Presentation
David Gibson presented this powerpoint as part of a panel on "dissemination strategies and tactics" at the SITE 2006 conference in Orlando, FL.
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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.
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Setting Up Your Classroom
Classroom setup can dramatically affect students' attitudes toward and habits of learning. Students need an environment that is organized, stimulating, and comfortable in order to learn effectively.
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She Will Succeed! Strategies for Success in Inclusive Classrooms by Mary Ann Pratner
Given the number of students needing
individual assistance in the general
classroom, teachers need strategies to
assist them in making appropriate modifications
and adaptations to their curriculum,
instruction, and learning environment. This article includes a case situation where a teacher implements specific adaptations
and steps to modify the learning environment.
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simSchool Scenarios
This pdf file is a beginning workbook for the simSchool application (www.simschool.org). It develops several case studies of teaching and illustrates how simSchool allows someone to "play" with the case studies to learn about teaching.
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simSchool: An instructional technology for teacher education - Christensen, Gibson, Knezek
Stemming out of a “Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology” PT3 project, simSchool is an online simulation of a classroom that offers a virtual practicum for preservice and early year teachers. It was released for public use on March 1, 2006 and has been piloted in 8 higher education institutions with over 200 preservice students.
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Social Support in Inclusive Schools: Student and Teacher Perspectives
This article investigates student and teacher perceptions regarding social support at
school. Thirty students with learning disabilities (LD) in inclusive third- to fifth-grade classrooms
were interviewed about their social networks, perceived loneliness, social support, and
intervention preferences for social problems encountered at school.
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Student Learning Groups that Really Work
Standards-based instruction calls for students to work with their peers. Here are some ways that teachers can enhance the effectiveness of group work in their classrooms.
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Study Groups
ASCD site sharing what are, why use and how to start study groups.
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Table of assessment methods for Balanced Literacy
This table presents a few ideas about specific assessment strategies and their purposes.
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Teacher Research
This introduction by Sharon Parsons of San Jose State University begins.. "Traditional educational research has limited usefulness for classroom teachers.
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Teaching for Understanding - Website at Harvard University
The Teaching for Understanding Framework includes four key ideas--based on the four questions: generative topics, understanding goals, performances of understanding, and ongoing assessment. This website provides information, examples and the steps for developing a unit of study using the TFU model.
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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.
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Temple University Assessment Site
Assessment is not an isolated event. It must be integrated into teaching and learning.
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Three Categories of Questions: Crucial Distinctions
It is essential when thinking critically to clearly distinguish three different kinds of questions: 1) Those with one right answer (factual questions fall into this category). What is the boiling point of lead? 2) Those with better or worse answers (well-reasoned or poorly reasoned answers).
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Transfiguring It Out Converting Disengaged Children to Active Participants
Do you want to help students believe in
themselves and their learning potential?
This article addresses the challenge of
disengaged students and provides
teachers with a “transfiguration” model
that uses a practical and robust strategy
to transform disengaged learners to
active participants. Let’s examine the
inclusive education environment and
why we need to transform the way we
work with all our students to set learning
goals, create a workable plan, use
motivating activities, and reflect and
evaluate along the way.
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Understand Your Students
Who are your students? What backgrounds and experiences do they bring to class which influence how they learn from you?.
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Using Functional Assessment to Promote Desirable Student Behavior in Schools
Whether aggressive or merely
annoying, challenging behavior attracts
the attention of the teacher and other
students, thus interrupting the focus on
learning. This article presents a rationale
for using the functional behavioral
assessment (FBA) approach to problem solving.
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Using Technology to Enhance the Classroom Environment
This January 2002 feature article from the THE Jounral gives advice on classroom set-ups, etc.
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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.
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What is group learning?
"Group learning," "cooperative learning," and "collaborative learning" are terms that are often used synonymously. While some people carefully try to distinguish between the three terms, we use them to refer to an instructional approach in which students work together in small groups to accomplish a common learning goal.
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Your Students' Learning Goals
Of course you have your teaching goals for the course. But what are your students' learning goals? The quality of work students will do in your course is based on their goals.
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