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Compendium Sites: Collections of
general tools, curriculum guides, and other resources across
disciplines and grades
Study Web: Vast labrynth of
resources for teaching. Great search engine to help do a broad-reaching
search. You never know what's out there until you troll around on this
site.
Skewl Site: Collection of
resources that have been reviewed by the Skewl Newsletter
NY Times Learning Center:
Daily lesson plans, units on controversial current issues and a raft of
other resources. The lesson plans are top notch: thoughtful, engaging
and should be used as models for thinking through how we want to set up
learning situations in our classes.
The National Archives:
Provides both primary sources and a series of lesson plans, guidelines,
and helpful suggestions on how to use primary source documents. They
offer a series of handouts that you can adopt
Library
of Congress: A helpful resource for developing primary source
documents and experiences for students
NEA
Works4Me: A terrific set of resources on all facets of teaching.
Tips on getting organized, working with parents, using technology, and
more
LessonStop: A
compendium page with all sorts of hints, tips, tricks and other
resources. You can also subscribe to a weekly e-mail magazine
Harvard Learning Web Project
Zero: Harvard's Project Zero has long been a leader in the research
and development of constructivist learning environments and practices.
The organization's web site provides a full-range of resources
including tips for planning, articles (for example, techniques on
maximizing transfer), and other hands-on resources.
Creative Mines: resources to help
expand and enrich your planning.
Cartoon Data Base:
This is the Teachers' Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists
Index web site in your classes. Our site is a unique resource with the
largest collection of newspaper editorial cartoons on the web
All Movie Site: Site that allows
you to search movies by theme and other valuable keywords.
World Wide Art Resources: Gateway sites
to artist, museums, educational resources and other materials that will
support your planning. Here's another one: Artsource & one more: Artlinx
Music
Resources: Gateway sites to music resources: Indiana
University Music Site. Here's Duke
University's Classical Musical Site. History
of Rock Music syllabus with hyperlinked web sites that could be of
interest.
Model Curriculum Units:
Harvard
Project Zero Units:
Stanford
Teacher Education Program:
Yale-New Haven/Pittsburgh/Albaquerque/Houston
Teacher's Institute: Each teacher participating as a Fellow in an Institute seminar prepares a curriculum unit to be taught the following year, and to be shared with other teachers. Since the inception of the New Haven Institute in 1978, Fellows have written 1,536 curriculum units in the humanities and the sciences. These units contain four elements: objectives, teaching strategies, sample lessons and classroom activities, and lists of resources for teachers and students.
English
National Council of Teachers of English:
Information on standards, research, lesson planning, and research.
English Teachers Companion:
Jim Burke's thoughtful and well-crafted web site on teaching and
learning resources for English teachers.
Web English Teacher: "Web
English Teacher presents the best of online teaching resources: lesson
plans and activities, biography, e-texts, online criticism, Webquests,
professional resources, jokes, puzzles, classroom-friendly sites, and
videos. Pages are updated regularly. Bookmark this site and visit
often!" (Description taken from the site)
CyberEnglish: Created by
English teacher Ted Nellen, this site offers helpful examples of a
classroom that incorporates technology effectively and a teacher who
has learned to use the Web to support his teaching (and his students).
Traci's Lists of Ten:
teaching tips, pedagogical guidelines, administrative pointers, and the
like, showing up in batches of ten, approximately every 10 days for the
rest of the year.
Math
National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics: NCTM has information on standards, research, lesson
planning, and research.
The Math Forum: A network of
sources. Lesson plans, teacher tips, discussion groups, book reviews.
All about Math and sponsored by Swathmore.
Science
Guided Tour
of Science Teaching Resources on the Web: An organized tour through
the maze of resources available.
National Science Teachers Association:
Umbrella organization for science teachers.
NASA Spacelink: NASA
Spacelink is an electronic resource developed for the education
community. Educators can access teacher's guides with hands-on
activities
Yes! I Can Science: Database
of science lessons and other activities.
History/Social Sciences
Blue Web'n Library The gem of gems in the "keeping-up with new social studies sites on the
Net" battle. The Blue Web'n Library contains a cataloged section on
lesson plans--many of them using instructional technology! The best
part of the site is its ability to notify you via e-mail every time it
becomes aware of a new educational-oriented site on the Internet. A
definite "must" for the busy teacher in all of us.
The National Council for the
Social Studies is the primary organization of K-12 social studies
teachers and college-level teacher educators. Every social studies
teacher should consider joining NCSS. They have an excellent Internet
Links and Resources page that is a gold mine for classroom teachers who
want to use the Internet in their instruction.
Dan
Graf's Page for History Teacher's Students: Professor Graf is true
to his word aobu his site which is he describes as, "My primary purpose
is to help students doing history research find electronic resources as
quickly and easily as possible. As you use these pages, you should keep
in mind a couple of rules of thumb.
American Memory Site:
Sponsored by the Library Congress. It's a site of resources, primary
source documents, and teacher activities.
Teacher
Stories on Teaching: Stories of innovation, curriculum
and methods written by or about teachers in the classroom
Socratic
Discussion in the Math Class
Integrating
Math and Science in the Classroom:
Webloggers:
Blog
of a Math Teacher
Teaching
High School: Chronicling the move from junior h.s. to high school
teaching.
Joanne Jacobs: A
former San Jose Mercury columnist engaged in thinking about educational
issues.
Entry Year
Teaching:
Resources on Individual
Differences
Learning Disabilities
Perhaps the most obvious learning differences are learning
disabilities. Students can have any of a vast array of learning
disabilities, each with its own implications for the classroom. To
learn more about these disabilities, you might start at the National
Center for Learning Disabilities (http://www.ld.org/index.html).
Visit the "Tips for Teachers" section (http://www.ld.org/info/tips/teacher_index.cfm)
for ideas on forming parent-teacher partnerships, working with
non-English-speaking families, and using technology to assist students
with learning disabilities.
Another
overview of learning disabilities is LDOnline (http://www.ldonline.org). This
site's resources include identification and assessment tools, teaching
strategies, and recommended reading. Teachers can participate in
several online bulletin boards that focus on such topics as reading,
mathematics, technology, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD).
LD
Resources, http://www.ldresources.com, is an extensive online compendium of books, videos, conferences, tools,
and other resources about learning disabilities. The Education section
has articles on homework, transition plans, taking the Scholastic
Assessment Test (SAT), legal issues, and getting ready for college.
Gifted
Students
As Educational Leadership author Carolyn Callahan notes,
students with learning disabilities aren't the only ones who have
learning differences; gifted students also have special needs.
KidSource's directory of articles about gifted and talented students (http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/ed.gifted.html)
provides lots of information and rates the articles, as well. Among the
topics addressed are ADHD and giftedness, developing math skills,
technology, social-emotional development, and underachieving gifted
students.
Education
Week also has an online archive of articles about gifted education (http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=33),
with information on how educators can identify and serve gifted
children and such alternative education programs as blending high
school and college.
Some
students may have both giftedness and a learning disability, which can
be even more challenging for teachers. With information on gifted
students, students with disabilities, and other exceptional students,
the Council for Exceptional Children (http://www.cec.sped.org/)
educates teachers about a spectrum of learning differences, provides
discussion forums on curriculum and classroom management, and features
articles from the Council's journal, Teaching Exceptional Children.
Multiple
Intelligences
Learning differences aren't limited to the extremes of disabilities and
giftedness. Howard Gardner identified eight common learning
differences, or intelligences. EdWeb offers an introduction to
Gardner's theory (http://www.edwebproject.org/edref.mi.intro.html)
and gives an overview of multiple intelligences and the theory's
implications for teaching.
To hear
from Gardner himself, check out his interview in Educational
Leadership (http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/edlead/9709/checkley.html).
Gardner argues against "the notion that there's only one way to learn
how to read, only one way to learn how to compute, only one way to
learn about biology." He gives his definition of intelligence,
discusses how multiple intelligences can be used in the classroom, and
offers advice for designing assessments based on multiple
intelligences. ASCD offers many other resources on how teachers can
bring out their students' multiple intelligences. Go to the ASCD Web
site (http://www.ascd.org),
click on Reading Room, and search for "multiple intelligences" to find
excerpts from many publications, such as the second edition of Thomas
Armstrong's book, Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, and
the recent ASCD book by Harvey F. Silver, Richard W. Strong, and
Matthew J. Perini, So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles
and Multiple Intelligences.
Technology:
The Teacher List is a
wonderful resource. Every day during the school year you receive a link
to a model site that is doing cutting edge work at the intersection of
Technology and Learning.
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