GENERAL
Activities and Ideas for Use in the Classroom
What Works Clearinghouse
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/
Free worksheets and printable activities for grades K-3
http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/wspages/reading.htm
ABCTeach: printable handouts, flashcards, and more
http://www.abcteach.com/
Best Practices for the Content Area
Center for Instruction
http://www.centeroninstruction.org/
Area Education Agency 267: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/cia/
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
http://www.free.ed.gov/
Better Ways to Supplement Class Assignments
Center for Digital Storytelling
http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
Suggestions for ways to use Google tools in the classroom.
Google for Educators: Classroom Activities
http://www.google.com/educators/activities.html
Time Saving Strategies for Preparing Lesson Plans/ Organization and Time-Saving Tips/ Ideas/Techniques that Work for Others
NCRTEC Lesson Planner
http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/lp/index.html
NEA’s Works4Me
http://www.nea.org/tips/organize/index.html
Templates for Teachers
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech101.shtml
Best Practice with Cooperative Learning
Classroom Compass: Cooperative Learning
http://www.sedl.org/scimath/compass/v01n02/
Jigsaw Learning
http://www.jigsaw.org/
Collaborative learning
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/archive/cl1/cl/
Ideas for Aiding Retention of New Concepts
Repeated test-taking better for retention than repeated studying, research shows
The dreaded pop quiz
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/wuis-rtb030606.php
Retention Rates and Learning Styles
http://www.cofc.edu/bellsandwhistles/research/retentionmodel.html
Cross-Cultural Activities
Culturally-Responsive Teaching
http://knowledgeloom.org/practices3.jsp?location=1&bpinterid=1110&spotlightid=1110
Center for Culturally-Responsive Teaching and Learning
http://www.culturallyresponsive.org/
NEA Today: Culturally-Responsive Teaching
http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0611/feature9.html
Speaker Ideas:
Center for Culturally-Responsive Teaching and Learning: School Site Seminars
http://www.culturallyresponsive.org/schoolseminars.html
Hands-on activities across the curriculum
A Side of Sims: Simulations in the Classroom
http://www.edutopia.org/node/3343/print
Exploratorium – Hands-on Activities
http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/handson.html
Jefferson Lab – Hands-on Activities (Intermediate grades)
http://education.jlab.org/indexpages/activity6.php
Windows to the Universe (science, Intermediate grades)
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/teacher_resources/main/activity.html
Sharing “what works” with others
Share Best Practices Handbook
http://www.nj.gov/dca/lgs/share/share_handbook.pdf
SPECIAL NEEDS
Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8: National Association for the Education of Young Children
http://www.naeyc.org/about/positions/daptoc.asp
Developmentally Appropriate Programs
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/resources/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=55
Speaker Ideas:
Read, Play, and Learn: An Integrated, Developmentally-Appropriate Curriculum for Young Children
http://www.brookespublishing.com/onlocation/topics/RPL.htm
Accelerated Learning Strategies
Accelerated Learning
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/accelerated/deporter.htm
International Alliance for Learning: The Professional Organization for Accelerated Learning
http://www.ialearn.org
Funderstanding
http://www.funderstanding.com/engaging_kids.cfm
Practices to Help Stimulate Gifted Students
Are We Failing Our Geniuses? Time Aug. 16, 2007
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653653,00.html
Gifted Sources
http://www.giftedsources.com
Gifted Education: USF College of Education
http://www.coedu.usf.edu/main/departments/sped/gifteded/index.htm
Gifted Education: Tampa Area Resources
http://www.coedu.usf.edu/main/departments/sped/gifteded/Tampa-arearesourcesforgiftedlearners.htm
Appropriate and Effective Differentiation Strategies/Best Practices
Differentiated Instruction: Education World
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy042.shtml
National Conference on Differentiated Instruction
Past speakers: http://www.sde.com/Conferences/differentiated-instruction/summit.asp
Best ways to work with special needs students
Current Practice Alerts w/Focus on Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities
http://www.dldcec.org/ld_resources/alerts/default.htm
Center on Instruction: Special Education
http://www.centeroninstruction.org/resources.cfm?category=specialed&subcategory=&grade_start=&grade_end=
Inclusion strategies
Inclusion Sites
http://circleofinclusion.org/english/links/inclusion.html
Best practices for ESE readers
ESE Module Links
http://www.pda-ese.org/modules/reading/5.htm
READING AND WRITING AND SPEAKING
Strategies for Developing Early Reading and Writing Skills
Florida Center for Reading Research
http://www.fcrr.org/forTeachers.htm
Reading Research on ReadingRockets.org
http://www.readingrockets.org/research/
StoryPlace Preschool Library
http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp
CIERA: Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement
http://www.ciera.org/
Big Ideas for Beginning Reading
http://reading.uoregon.edu/index.php
Speaker Ideas:
Florida Center for Reading Research faculty and associates
http://www.fcrr.org/about/pdf/brochure.pdf
Heinemann Resources
http://pd.heinemann.com/speakers/products/759S.aspx
Daily Oral Language Strategies
Excellence in Elementary Editing: offers alternatives to daily oral language activities
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1b/44/6a.pdf
Phonetic Strategies
Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=157
Phonemic Awareness in Beginning Reading
http://reading.uoregon.edu/pa/pa_teach.php
Phonological Awareness Resources
http://sss.usf.edu/cbm/phonological_resources.htm
Phonics Instruction: One of the 5 Big Ideas in Reading
http://www.centeroninstruction.org/resources.cfm?category=reading&subcategory=materials&grade_start=0&grade_end=3#12
Speaker Ideas:
Reading First Staff
http://rfpd.ucf.edu/about/rfstaff.html
Up-to-date Spelling Strategies
Strategies for Spelling Development
http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/english/stages.htm
Spelling – Teaching Spelling – Spelling Rules
http://spelling.wordpress.com/
Vocabulary Strategies
Vocabulary in Beginning Reading
http://reading.uoregon.edu/voc/voc_teach.php
Speaker Ideas:
Teaching for Comprehending & Fluency Grades K-8
http://pd.heinemann.com/seminars/products/SMCOMP.aspx
Writing Strategies
National Writing Project
http://www.nwp.org/
Read Write Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/
National Council of English Teachers: Consultants
http://www.ncte.org/profdev/onsite/consultants
Newspaper Strategies
St. Petersburg Times: Newspaper in Education
http://nieonline.com/sptimes/
Newseum Teacher Resources
http://www.newseum.org/events_edu/teacher_resources/about.aspx?item=teacher_resources&style=a
New York Times Resources for Teachers/Learners
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
Stories with related lesson plans
Best Practices: Improve Student Comprehension Skills
Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2983
Guided Comprehension: Knowing How Words Work Using Semantic Feature Analysis
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=240
Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=95
Reading Comprehension Connection: online quizzes in comprehension and usage
http://www.readingcomprehensionconnection.com/reading_lesson.php
Speaker Ideas:
http://www.lindahoyt.com/Workshops/workshops.htm
http://pd.heinemann.com/speakers/products/1628S.aspx
http://pd.heinemann.com/speakers/products/3354S.aspx
Best Practices and Lessons for Teaching Library Skills
WebQuest
http://webquest.org/index.php
Young Adult Library Services, Collections, and Programs: Best Practices in Young Adult Services in Texas Libraries
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/projects/ya/practices.html
LOEX: Teaching Resources
http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/teaching_resources.html
Teacher Librarian: The Journal for School Library Professionals
http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/
Active Learning and Library Instruction
http://www.libraryinstruction.com/active.html
ALA Library Instruction Round Table Library Instruction Tutorials
http://www3.baylor.edu/LIRT/lirtproj.html
The Big 6 Information Skills for Student Achievement
http://www.big6.com/
Ban Those Bird Units! 15 Models for Teaching and Learning in Information-rich and Technology-rich Environments
http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/LU0115.aspx
Strategies for literacy
Research about Effective Literacy Instruction
http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/resart.htm
Reading Strategies – Students Interactions with Text
http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/612/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/reading%20strategies%20index.htm
Issues in Literacy: International Reading Association Reports (links to reports)
http://www.reading.org/resources/issues/reports/
Strategies for reading comprehension
Effective Practices for Developing Reading Comprehension
http://www.scholastic.com/dodea/Module_1/resources/dodea_m1_pa_duke.pdf
Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Instructional Strategies
http://www.lcsc.edu/education/elementary/icla/ICLAguideStd2.pdf
Decoding and Word Recognition
http://www.strategiesforliteracy.com/decode.php
Comprehension Strategies
http://www.strategiesforliteracy.com/comp.php
Learning to Learn: Developing Reading Comprehension Modules 1-4
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/learntolearn/home.html
Best practices in improving student reading
Reading Strategies Metasite
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/ReadStrats_20Best.html
Great Web Resources of the Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
http://reading.indiana.edu/www/indexwr.html
Center on Instruction: Reading
http://www.centeroninstruction.org/resources.cfm?category=reading&subcategory=&grade_start=&grade_end=
Best practices in intermediate grade reading programs
Reading Across the Curriculum
http://www.wested.org/cs/sli/print/docs/685
Literacy and Learning: Reading in the Content Areas
http://www.lpb.org/education/classroom/itv/litlearn/
Adolescent Literacy Resources – Online Articles
http://www.learningpt.org/literacy/adolescent/articles.php
Fostering High Levels of Reading and Learning in Secondary Students
http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=/articles/handbook/guthrie/index.html
Strategies for increasing motivation for reading
Motivational Techniques for Improving Reading Comprehension
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1980/4/80.04.06.x.html
Contexts for Engagement and Motivation in Reading
http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=/articles/handbook/guthrie/index.html
Strategies for struggling readers
Center on Instruction: Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers
http://www.centeroninstruction.org/files/COI%20Struggling%20Readers.pdf
Internet Resources to Assist Teachers with Struggling Readers
http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/webwatch/struggling/index.html
Current methods for guided reading
Guided Reading: a case study
http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/english/guide.htm
Strategies for encouraging reading outside of school
Motivating Kids to Read (for parents)
http://www.rif.org/parents/motivate/default.mspx
Learning Tips: Reading and more
http://www.kidbibs.com/learningtips.htm
ALA Tips for Encouraging Reading
http://www.kidbibs.com/learningtips.htm
Best practices in improving student writing
Paragraph-a-Week Program
http://www.teachersdesk.org/topics/par_week_program.htm
Best practices in improving student speaking
Student Public Speaking
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1a/3a/4c.pdf
Teaching English
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/speak/public.shtml
Strategies for teaching languages
What We Can Learn from Foreign Language Teaching in Other Countries
http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/0106pufahl.html
Content Strategies for Foreign Language (with links)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/step/new-step-website/resources/LanguageSite/Foreign_Language_Strategies.html
Note-taking: mapping strategies
MindScaping
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/graphic_tools/margulies.htm
Self-contained teaching strategies
Tools for Reading, Writing, and Thinking
http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Tools/Index.htm
OTHER
Self-motivation strategies
Tools for Teaching – Motivating Students
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/motivate.html
Major Principles – Self Directed Learning (SDL)
http://www.selfdirectedlearning.com/majorprinciples.html
Coaching practices
Cognitive Coaching
http://www.cognitivecoaching.com/readings.htm
Strategies for teaching the Scriptures
The Use of Scripture in the Teaching of Religious Education (check TOC in Thesis)
http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp31.29082005/01front.pdf
Your Best Bible Teaching Ideas
http://www.youthspecialties.com/articles/topics/theology/teaching_ideas.php?printIt=yes
Computer ideas/sites
Best Practice – Cooperative Groups at the Computer
http://www.ataccess.org/resources/atk12/bp/cooperative.html
Teaching in a Computer Lab
http://www.genevalogic.com/fileadmin/redaktion/whitepapers/Teaching_in_a_Computer_Lab_US.pdf
Internet4Classroom – Grade Level Skills
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help.htm
Computation Ideas and Strategies
Computational Skills: E-Learning of Mental Math and Arithmetic Operations
http://www.computationalskills.com/
Fostering Multiplicative Thinking Using Array-Based Materials
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/2a/d0/06.pdf
Spreadsheet Generalising and Paper and Pencil Generalising
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1b/bc/4d.pdf
Thinking Through Three Worlds of Mathematics
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1b/bb/f9.pdf
Disciplined Calculators or Flexible Problem Solvers?
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1b/bc/41.pdf
OTHER WEB SITES OF INTEREST
authentic assessment
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/index.htm
pbs misunderstood minds
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/attention.html
Edutopia—stories about exemplary practices
http://www.edutopia.org/
What Works Clearinghouse
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/
Educator’s Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org/
From the Information Institute of Syracuse, offers resource guides and lesson plans by subject and provides a place to search GEM and ERIC
Infinite Thinking Machine
http://www.infinitethinking.org/
Blog “to show how todays digital tools impact learning”
MERLOT
http://www.merlot.org/
Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence
http://www.c21te.usf.edu/
Heinemann authors/speakers
http://pd.heinemann.com/speakers/
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
National Catholic Education Association
http://www.ncea.org
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
http://www.ascd.org
MENC: National Organization for Music Education
http://www.menc.org
Arts Edge/Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org
National Council for Teachers of Mathematics
http://www.nctm.org
National Math and Science Initiative
http://nationalmathandscience.org
National Science Teachers Association
http://www.nsta.org
National Council of Teachers of English
http://www.ncte.org
National Council for Social Studies
http://www.socialstudies.org
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
http://www.actfl.org
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
http://www.aahperd.org
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
http://site.aace.org
International Society for Technology in Education
http://www.iste.org
National Catholic Partnership on Disability
http://www.ncpd.org
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROVIDERS
Teacher Education Institute
http://www.teachereducation.com
Teachscape
http://www.teachscape.com
INTEL Teach Program
http://www.intel.com/education/teach
Staff Development for Educators
http://www.ed2go.com/sde/
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php
Catapult Learning
http://www.catapultlearning.com