Help Center

By Dr. Whitemarsh 

"Knowledge increases in proportion to its use-that is, the more we teach the more we learn."
H.P. Blavatsky

Assessment

·       www.naspcenter.org/factsheets/highstakes_fs.html
·       www.wrightslaw.com/info/highstak.index.htm
·       www.reading.org/positions/high_stakes.html
·       Assessment in Special and Inclusive Education: http://education.college.hmco.com/students
·       National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities: http://www.kidsouce.com/NICHCY/index.html
·       Fairness in Performance Assessment: http://ericae.net/db/edo/ED391982.htm
·       Observing and Recording Student Performance: http://para.unl.edu/para/observation/Intro.html
·       Assessment: http://www.ncrel.org/ncrel/sdrs/areas/as0cont.htm
·       Eric Clearing House: http://www.ericae.net
·       Portfolio Assessment: http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/literacy/assess6.html
·       Organic Portfolio Assessment: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/notes/5/portfolio.html
·       Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes: http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/Board/Educ/outcomes/Deassessment.html

Beginning Teachers

·       Beginning Teachers: http://www.nea.org/bt/1-students/1-1nres.html
·       EZ School (Beginning Teachers): http://www.EZSchool.com
·       What to Expect your First Year of Teaching: http://www.ed.gov/publs/FirstYear/index.html
·       A New Teacher Guide Book: http://www.hannahmeans.bizland.com
·       Materials: www.new-teacher.com
·       Recruiting New Teachers: www.rnt.org
·       www.newteach.com
·       Educators Reference Desk: http://www.eduref.org/ 

Bilingual Education

·       www.ncela.gwu.edu/links/bies1/
·       www.multicultural-childrens-books-cds-friezes.com/bilingual-education.html
·       www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed403101.html 

Block Scheduling

·       www.jefflindsay.com/Block.shtml#intro
·       www.weac.org/resource/june96/schedule.htm

 Character Education

·       Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character: http://education.bu.edu/characterED
·       Center for Civic Education: http://www.civiced.org.
·       Center for the Fourth and Fifth R’s (Respect/Responsibility): http://www.cortland.edu/www/c4n5rs
·       Operation Respect: www.operationrespect.org

 Classroom Management

·       www.ez2bsaved.com/class_manage.htm
·       http://inset.ul.ie/cm/
·       http://teachermentors.com/Mcenter%20Site/CIMgmtTips.html
·       www.indiana.edu/%7Ecafs/tt/v1i2what.html
·       www.teachnet.com/how-to/manage
·       www.theteacherscorner.net/resources/websites.htm
·       www.disciplinehelp.com
·       http://www.db.education-world.com/perl/brows?cat_id=1846
·       http://www.expage.com/ 

Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution Lesson Plans:

·       http://www.stark.k12.oh.us./Dosc/units/conflict/lessons
·       Quest International: http://www.quest.edu:80/aboutquest.htm
·       Teaching Peace-No Bully Program: http://www.fortnet.org:80/~dtitle/bully.htm
·       Susan Gingras Fitzell: http://reg.seresc.k12.nh.us/~sfitzell/index.html
·       Positive Discipline/Empowering People: http://www.empoweringpeople.com
·       Adolescence Directory On-Line: http://education.indiana.edu/cas/adol/adol.html
·       Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence: http://coloradeo.edu/cspv
·       Colorado Anti-bulling Project: http://www.no-bully.com/
·       Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/osep/gtss.html
·       Parent and Family Involvement Pathways to School Improvement: http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/pa)cont.htm

 Cooperative Learning

·       www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr287.shtml
·       www.sheridanc.on.ca/coop_learn/cooplrn.htm
·       http://college.hmco.com/education/pbl/tc/coop.html#top
·       http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/group.html
·       www.co-operation.org
·       http://jamaica.u.arizona.edu/ic/edtech/startegy.html
·       http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/cooperativelearning.htm 

Creativity

·       The Creativity Web: www.ozmail.com.au/~caveman/Creative
·       Enchanted Mind: www.enchantedmind.com
·       Odyssey of the Mind: www.odysseyofthemind.org 

Critical Thinking

·       Critical Thinking: www.criticalthinking.org
·       Higher Order Thinking Skills: http://www.hots.org/ 

Curriculum Materials

·       http://www.enc.org
·       http://www.teachnet.com/ 

Diversity

·       http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/ect/placetobegin.htm
·       www.familyeducation.com/topicfront/0,1156,65-21926,00html
·       www.waldorfhomeschoolers.com/diversity.html
·       www.naacp.org/
·       www.getnet.net/!1stbooks/
·       www.adl.org/adl.asp
·       http://nativeweb.org
·       http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/ 

Education  Resources

·       The Blackwell History of Education Museum and Research Collection: http://www.cedu.niu.edu/blackwell/
·       Education Week: http://www.edweek.org/
·       The Education Commission of the States:  http://www.ecs.org/
·       Educators Reference Desk: http://www.eduref.org/
·       Comparative Education Review: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CER/
·       National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing: http://www.cse.ucla.edu/
·       American Educational Research Association: http://www.aera.net/
·       Association for Educational Communications and Technology: http://www.aect.org/
·       Center for Rural Education and Small Schools:
                   http://www2.educ.ksu.edu/Organizations/Centers/CRESS/CRESSMenu.html
·       Council of the Great City Schools:  http://www.cgcs.org/
·       The Global Schoolhouse:  http://www.gsn.org/
·       The Institute of Education Sciences: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/index.html
·       National Association of Educational Progress: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
·       The National Center for Education Statistics:  http://nces.ed.gov/
·        New American Schools (NAS): http://www.naschools.org/
·       Success for All:  http://www.successforall.net/
·       Sites for Teachers: www.sitesforteachers.com
·       Ideas for Teachers: www.ideaswisconsin.edu 

Effective Instruction

·       http://muskingum.edu/!cal/database/genpurpose.html
·       http://edservices.aea7.k12.ia.us/framwork/strategies/index.html
·       www.uncw.edu/cte/et/articles/bulger/
·       www.mcrel/org/topics/topics.asp?topicsid=6 

Employment Opportunities

·       American Association for Employment in Education, http://www.aaee.org
·       Council of Chief State School Officers, http://www.ccsso.org
·       Teacher-Teacher.com, http://www.teachers-teachers.com
·       Directory of Public School Systems in the U.S., http://www.aaee.org
·       Education Week, http://www.edweek.org
·       Project Connect, http://www.aaee.org 

Gifted and Talented Education

·       www.hoagies.gifted.org
·       www.worldgifted.org
·       www.gtworld.org
·       www.nfgcc.org
·       www.nagc.org
·       www.cectag.org
·       www.ericec.org
·       www.sengifted.org 

Graphic Organizers

·       http://www.graphicorg
·       http://home.earthlink.net/~tsdobbs/go.htm
·       http://www.fromnowon.org/oct97/picture.html
·       http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/bibs/graphele.html
·       http://www.inspiration.com
·       http://w3.ag.uiuc.edu/AIM/Discovery/Mind/c-m2.html
·       http://sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm 

Instructional Objectives

·       www.adprima.com/examples.htm
·       http://adprima.com/user-menu.htm 

Learning/Teaching Styles

·       VARK Questionnaire: http://www.vark-learn.com/questionnaire.htm
·       Multiple Intelligences Inventory: http://www.Idrc.ca/projects/minnventory/miinventory.php.
·       Teaching Style Inventory: http://www.fcrc.indstate.edu/tstyles3.html
·       Paragon Learning Style Inventory:    http://www.oswego.edu/~shindler/plsi/taketest.htm
·       Personal Learning Styles: http://www.howtolearn.com/
·       Meyers-Briggs/Jung:  http://www.humanmetrics.com
·       Hemisphericity:  http://brain.web-us.com 

Learning Theory

·       www.funderstanding.com/about_learning.cfm
·       www.ucalgary.ca/~gnjantzi/learning_theories.htm 

Lesson Plans

·       www.AmericanTeachers.com/lessonplans.cfm#1423
·       www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans/index.asp
·       www.lessonplanspage.com
·       www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans
·       www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons
·       http://ericir.syr.edu/VirtualLessons/
·        http://www.funbrain.com 

Motivation:

·       http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/motivate.htm
·       http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/qf/motiv.htm

Intrinsic Motivation:

·       http://comp.uark.edu/~brooks/motivational.html
·       www.motivation-and-motivational-tools.com/
·       http://education.calumet.purdue.edu/vockell/EdPsyBook/Edpsy5/Edpsy5_intrinsic.htm

Multiple Intelligences

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence: www.ed.psy.edu/insys/ESD/gardnerMItheroy.html
Multiple Intelligences: www.newhorizons.org/strategies/mi/front_mi.htm
Exploring Multiple Intelligences: www.multi-tell.com
Multiple Intelligence Inventory: www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php
 

Parents Involvement

http://teachermentors.com/Mcenter%20Site/ParentConfr.html
www.ncpie.org/Resources
www.tools.cityu.edu.hk/news/parents.htm 

Philosophy of Education

www.acs.ohio-state.edu/education/ftad/portfolio/philosophy/
American Philosophical Association: http://www.oxy.edu/apa/apa.html
Five Educational Philosophies: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/Lshaw/F95syll/philos/phintro.html
Materials on Philosophy of Education: http://commhum.mccneb.edu/PHILOS/phileduc.htm
Education Philosophy: Classic Texts and Manuscripts in Education: http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/etexts.html
History of American Education Web Project: http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfrnb/index.html 

Portfolio

http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cte/teachfolio.html
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/class/edlf/589-07/sample.html
http://www.expage.com/ 

PPST

www.ets.org/praxis
 

Private Schools

Independent School Management, Inc. www.isminc.com/pubs/mart/mm.html
National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), http://nais-schools.org/
Peterson’s Private Secondary Schools, http://www.petersons.com 

Professional Organizations

National Council of Teachers of English: www.ncte.org
International Reading Association: www.reading.org
National Science Teachers Association: www.nsta.org
National Council for the Social Studies: www.ncss.org
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: www.nctm.org
National Association for the Education of Young Children (Early Childhood) www.naeyc.org
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: www.actfl.org
National Middle School Association: www.nmsa.org/services/teacher_prep/index.htm
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance: www.aahperd.org/naspe/template.cfm?template=programs-ncate.html
Council for Exceptional Children: www.cec.sped.org/ps/
Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD): http://wwwascd.org
Teachers of Foreign Language:  http://www.actfl.org
Special Education and Gifted Education: http://www.cec.sped.org
U.S. Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov
National Education Association: http://www.nea.org
Education Commission of the States: http://www.ecs.org
Association for Education Communications and Technology: http://www.aect.org
National School Boards Association: http://www.nsba.org
Association of Teacher Educators: http://www.siu.edu/departments/coe/ate
American Federation of Teachers: http://www.aft.org
Directory of U.S. State Teacher Licensure Offices: http://www.ccsso.org  and www.ed.gov
Phi Delta Kappa: www.pdkintl.org
Teacher Quality Bulletin: www.nctq.org
National PTA: www.pta.org
International Reading Association: www.reading.org
National Association of Bilingual Education: www.nabe.org
National Association for Multicultural: www.inform.umd.edu/name
National Catholic Educational Association: www.ncea.org
American Council of the Blind: http://www.acb.org
Visual Impairments: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed349774.html
National Association of the Deaf: http://www.nad.org 

 Praxis Tests (ETS)    

www.ets.org
PLT: Grades K-6: ftp://ftp.ets.org/pub/tandl/0522.pdf
PLT: Grades 5-9: ftp://ftp.ets.org/pub/tandl/o523.pdf
PLT: Grades 7-12: ftp://ftp.ets.org/pub/tandl/0524.pdf  

Questioning Strategies

http://www.oir.uiuc/edu/did/booklets/question/question.html
http://www.ael.org/rel/quilt/questng.htm
 

Reading

www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationnupclose.phtml/29
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter94/Jones.html 

Rubrics

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
http://edservices.aea7k12.ia.us/framework/rubrics/index.html
http://school.discover.com/schrockguide/assess.html
www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/ 

Special Educaton

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD)www.Idonline.org/Id_indepth/add_adhd/add-adhd.htm
LD Online, www.help4adhd.org/en/about
Children/Adults ADHD, www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/adhd.cfm
Behavior Disorders, www.state.ky.us/agencies/behave/homepage.html
www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/behavior.html
Special Education, www.cec.sped.org/
www.ericec.org
www.ComingTogether.com
IEP: Involving the Student is Important: http://www.nfb.org/involve.htm
Involving Parents in the IEP Process: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed455658.html
Introduction to Mental Retardation: http://thearc.org/faqs/mrqa.html
Learning Disabilities:  http://www.teachingld.org
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of `997: http://www.ideapractices.org/law/index.php
Autism/Asperger’s Syndrome  Resources: http://www.autism-resources.com

Standards

National and State Standards: http://www.education-world.com/standards/
Art:  http://artsedge.kenedy-center.org/
Elementary and Early Childhood:  http://ericeece.org/
English:  http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec    and  http://www.ncte.org
Foreign Languages:  http://www.cal.org/ericcl/
http:polyglot.Iss.wisc.edu/Iss/lang/langlink.html
Mathematics: http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math   and    http://www.nctm.org
Music:  http://www.cs.uop.edu/~cpiper/musiced.html
Physical Education: http://www.aahperd.org/
Reading and Language Arts: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
       http://www.enc.org
       http://project2061.aaas.org
Social Studies:  http://execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
Vocational Education: http://ericacve.org/
NBPTS: www.nbpts.org
Wisconsin Standards: www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/oea
Local and National Standards: www.iste.org
Content Knowledge: The McREL Standards Database: http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarsk/
Goals 2000 Legislation and Related Items:  http://www.ed.gov/G2K/
National Education Goals Panel: http://www.negp.gov
No Child Left Behind website (U.S. Department of Education): http://www.ed.gov/ncib/landing.jhtml?src=pb 

Teacher Reflections

http://alex.edfac.usyd.edu.au/LocalResource/Study1/hattonart.html
www.findarticles.com/cf_dis/Monqm/3_42/108442653/p1/article.jthml
http://teachers.net/gazette/MAY01/marshall.html
www.cotf.edu/ete/teacher/reflect.html        

Teacher Stories

www.lessonplanspage.com/index.html
www.useyourheadteach.gov.uk/teachers_stories/moments.htm.
www./teacheruniverse.com/community/teacherstories/moments.html 

Teaching Abroad

European Council of International Schools (ECIS), http://www.ecis.org
International Schools Services (ISS), http://www.iss.edu
The Peace Corps, http://www.peacecorps.gov
Private Schools with U.S. State Department Affiliation, http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/schools/oteaching.html
Association of American Schools in South America, http://www.aassa.com
The International Educator (TIE), http://www.tieonline.com 

Teaching Theories

Constructivism, http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/constructivism.html
                     www.funderstanding.com/constructivism.cfm
                     www.towson.edu/scme/mctp/Essays.html 

Theorists

Dewey, John,

www.molloy.edu/academic/philosophy/sophia/TOPICS/phiedu/contents.htm
Maslow, Abraham, www.ship.edu/~cgvoeree/maslow.html
Bandura, Albert, www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/self-efficacy.html
Vygotsky, Lev     www.education.miami.edu/blantonw/mainsite/Componentsfromclmer/Component13/Instruction/DialogicInquiryInEducation.html
Gallery of Educational Theorists: www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Gallery.html
Lock, John:  www.victorianweb.org/
Rousseau:  www.wabash.edu/Rousseau
Piaget: http://www.piaget.org
Freire: http://www.infed.org/thinkers/etfreire.htm
Educational Pioneers: www.infed.org/thinkers
Montessori: www.montessori.edu/
www.montessori.org

The Paul Freire Institute: http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org

Technology

·       Learning and Leading: http://www.iste.org/L&L/index.html

·       Kathy Schrock Guide for Educators: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

·       Judi Harris, Virtual Architecture Web Page: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jbharris/Virtual-Architecture/

·       Internet Resource for Special Children: http://www.irsc.org/disability.htm

·       Eric Clearinghouse on Information/Technology: http://ericit.org

·       Sites for Teachers: www.sites

·       www.ideasforteachers.edu
 

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction: DPI

·       www.dpi.state.wi.us
 

Writing Instruction

·       www.writingproject.org/

·       The Teaches College Record: http://www.tcrecord.org/

·       Five Paragraph Essay: www.geocites.com

·       Elementary Rules of Composition for Strunk’s Elements of Style: http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html#III

·       Strunk’s Elements of Style: http://www.bartelby.com/141/html#18

·       Writing Concise Sentences: http://www.webster.commnet.edu/grammar/concise.htm

·       Eliminating Word Clutter: http://www2.rscc.cc.tn.us/~jordan_jj/OWL/Clutter.html

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