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This “Just for Teachers” Web Page will be in a continuous state of flux as you make your information needs known to this Webmaster . He can be reached via email at jolove@up.net . This Web Page is y
our Web Site so that the children in your classroom receive the best education in the world.To get the “ball rolling”, I have spent the last several days “surfing the Web” for top-notch educational resources that you can use n
ow! The list to follow is far from complete ... items will eventually be added and other items you see now will be eliminated.As I stated above, this Web Site will be dynamic, ever changing because y
our needs are dynamic and ever-changing.In the list to follow, there is a short description of what each item contains. Note that I have divided the items into categories. Hopefully this will assist you teachers in searching for the information you need.
One more note before the list starts ... because of the highly dynamic nature of the information that is available on the World Wide Web, it may come to pass that you click on one of the listed items and get a “Not Found” message back. This simply means that the selected Site no longer exists. I will do my best to periodically check the validity of the listed items and replace those that need updating. In the event that you are ahead of me, just email the
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| Education Resources for Everyone (Peddling Pedagogy) | A potpourri of excellent sites which should get you started on your journey. | ||||||||
| UMass Dartmouth Library | Get your Dartmouth Library Card ready! You can check out any book in this Library if you have the Access Code printed on your Library Card. Even if you don’t have a Dartmouth Library Card, there’s plenty of good information here. | ||||||||
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| List of Special Education Sites | Contains a list of Special Education Sites that address such special needs as Attention Deficit Disorder, Down Syndrome, Deafness, and Gifted and Talented students. In addition, has access to other Special Education lists. | ||||||||
| Special Programs sponsored by Kodak Corporation | The Home of Kodak’s Search Site. When you get there, type “Special Education” in the FIND Box, click the FIND Button and you will then be taken to all the programs sponsored by Kodak Corporation in the field of Special Education. | ||||||||
| British Columbia Special Education Skills and Training |
The Special Education program authored in British Columbia that addresses such issues as:
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| University of Kansas’ Special Education Program | University of Kansas’ Special Education Program wherein they trained Native Americans and teachers in rural areas to serve children and youth with severe and profound disabilities. | ||||||||
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Site-based Management | |||||||||
| Resources for Reform | Regional educational laboratories, R&D centers, and education research organizations produce books, training modules, videos, and other products that can help if you are working to improve education in your school or community. | ||||||||
| Perspectives on Personalizing Education | The basic research question guiding this study was whether and under what conditions School Based Management could provide the capacity where school-level educators would introduce changes to curriculum and instruction designed to improve performance. The research also was concerned with testing whether the high involvement model describes the conditions that enable schools to introduce improvements. | ||||||||
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Shared Decision Making | |||||||||
| Teacher TV | Many schools around the country are in the midst of restructuring their operations. The continuum of activity ranges from school communities that are tinkering in minor ways with their processes, to communities that have made dramatic, fundamental changes in their structure. Teacher TV visits two communities that have been involved in in-depth change: both in how they operate systematically, and ultimately how they teach children. At both sites, the traditional hierarchical decision making process has evolved into participatory collaboration. | ||||||||
| Creating a Democratic Classroom Environment | Creating a democratic classroom environment means involving students, on a regular basis and in developmentally appropriate ways, in shared decision making that increases their responsibility for helping to make the classroom a good place to be and learn. | ||||||||
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Alternative Schooling | |||||||||
| One House School Room | Home schooling hints and resources. Info on learning styles, pre-schoolers’ development, starting a pre-school co-op, and getting a home school pen pal. | ||||||||
| Home School Internet Catalog | Catalog of books, videos, software and other materials for home schooling. | ||||||||
| Home Schooling Zone | Educational materials, support groups, a weekly newsletter, and special sections for challenged and gifted children. | ||||||||
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Curriculum Development | |||||||||
| K12 Curriculum Index | One of the biggest challenges for teachers is not only figuring out the mechanics of using the Internet, but figuring out how to take the Internet into the classroom and use the vast resources on the Net in the classroom. This Web Page is designed to help teachers locate curriculum material on the Net. | ||||||||
| Visual and Performing Arts | Curriculum for the Visual and Performing Arts. | ||||||||
| Lesson Plans and Teaching Resource Materials | Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources by Subject Area. | ||||||||
| How To Teach English With Fun And Games | Do you find it difficult to find new and interesting material to use in teaching English? A new teaching manual and audio-cassette package present 18 proven games and successful techniques for ALL levels. | ||||||||
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Civic Lessons | |||||||||
| Kids Around Town | The goal of “Kids Around Town” is to promote among elementary school children in Pennsylvania the understanding of the active role that citizens can play in deciding local public policy issues. | ||||||||
| Children’s Express | News Events reported by kids for everyone. | ||||||||
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School Funding and Teacher Pay | |||||||||
| Texas Senate Bill 1 | Senate Bill 1 has established a minimum state salary schedule for classroom teachers and full-time librarians that must be accommodated by all Texas public schools. This Site presents the approved schedule for the 1996-97 school year, plus some basics of the bill passed in the 74th Session of the Texas Legislature. | ||||||||
| Heartland Policy Study | Many popular accounts of schools suggest that they have changed little over the past few decades--except perhaps that students have gotten worse. This popular conception, however, misses truly extraordinary changes, not only in the organization and governance of schools, but also in the resources devoted to them. Even a cursory examination of the historical patterns of student performance and school finance highlights a central mystery of the education debate. The nation is spending more and more to achieve results that are no better, and perhaps worse. | ||||||||
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Teacher Development and Evaluation | |||||||||
| Education Policy Analysis Archives | In this article from the “Educational Policy Analysis” periodical at Arizona State University, it is argued that staff development in the public elementary and secondary schools of the United States is misguided in both policy and practice. | ||||||||
| Teacher Evaluation | Teachers have the responsibility to review periodically their own effectiveness and to seek improvements as part of a continuing process of their professional development. The profession, as a whole, has a responsibility for implementing adequate programs of formative and summative evaluation. School boards have a responsibility for the provision of adequate resources to implement programs of formative and summative evaluation. | ||||||||
| Student Teacher Communications Committee | A group of students at Stillwater Area High School who have established a system of teacher evaluation by students. This Web Page gives some background information on this Committee and, more importantly, offers support for those who are motivated to set up a similar system at their school. | ||||||||
| Professional Staff Development Telecasts for Educators | The “Teacher's Workshop” is dedicated to bringing practical staff development opportunities along with numerous classroom strategies directly to your school via teleconference. | ||||||||
| Improving Teacher Evaluations | A teacher evaluation system should give teachers useful feedback on classroom needs, the opportunity to learn new teaching techniques, and counsel from principals and other teachers on how to make changes in their classrooms. This fine article abstracted from ERIC presents some guidelines. | ||||||||
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Parent and Teacher Relationships | |||||||||
| Success Story at Eagan High School | At Eagan High School when parents take the time to become involved, they are better able to support their child in academic and co-curricular pursuits. We believe that EVERYONE benefits; the parents, the student, and the school. | ||||||||
| Kid Source | Today American educators are working to promote the study of history in the schools and at home. Knowledge of our history enables us to understand our nation's traditions, its conflicts, and its central ideas and values. Knowledge of world history enables us to understand other cultures. | ||||||||
Resolving Conflicts | |||||||||
| Cooperative Learning | Cooperative Learning is an approach to teaching where lessons are structured cooperatively (as opposed to individually or competitively) so students work together to accomplish shared goals. | ||||||||
| Conflict Education | This 9th grade course on “Conflict Resolution” is designed to focus on conflict within many aspects of people’s lives (historical, contemporary and fictional), within the world of science, and to develop students’ insight into related data via graphing and making predictions. Students are also exposed to strategies for resolving conflicts and participate in a contracted research project with a partner exploring conflicting sides of science-based issues. | ||||||||
School-to-Work | |||||||||
| WGCU-TV Faculty Lounge | Includes many features, including Job Hunting on the Internet. | ||||||||
| Job Hunt | A Meta-list of On-line Job-Search Resources and Services. | ||||||||
Science and Technology | |||||||||
| Eisenhower National Clearinghouse | Nationally recognized information source for K-12 mathematics and science teachers. | ||||||||
| Web 66 | Web66 is a ground-breaking project sponsored as part of the Hillsdale, MN, computing project to assist teachers in creating their own network resources . | ||||||||
| C-SPAN in the Classroom | The primary source public affairs programming on C-SPAN and C-SPAN2 is ideal for classroom use because it is presented without editing, commercials or commentary. Most of the programming on C- SPAN is copyright free for educational purposes. | ||||||||
| Qualitative Education Research Report | Reactions to and Perceptions Held about the Existence of Microcomputers in an Intermediate School. | ||||||||
| Web Development Pointers | If you ever have a “hankering” to design your own World Wide Web Page, here is a central repository of needed information. Be warned -- it’s addictive! | ||||||||
| Marquette Software Central | Provides at one location access to most of the major Search Engines for the World Wide Web; for example, MetaCrawler, WebCrawler, Lycos and Yahoo. | ||||||||
International Teaching | |||||||||
| International House | Worldwide Language Teaching Organization. | ||||||||
| Employment, Jobs, Careers, Teaching ESL Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong | A job market where there is a shortage of people with teaching qualifications, the hours and pay are very good, you have your choice of job offers, respected status and the opportunity to travel and see the world........ Jobs are full time, short term or summer. | ||||||||
| An International Pool of Educational Resources | The Teachers’ Internet Pages (TIPS) is here to provide teachers, especially international school teachers, with an information-gathering home page, and a community center for discussion of issues and events relevant to education. | ||||||||
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) | |||||||||
Thanks to a suggestion from a high school teacher in Laredo, Texas, as a special supplement, here’s a link to the colossal ERIC Database.“The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally-funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues. “AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents and others throughout the United States and the World. It began in 1992 as a project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology at Syracuse University. AskERIC is a Sun SITE repository, which enables it to expand the quality and quantity of its resources and services to the education community.” AskERIC is composed of three major components:
In addition, you can search the ERIC database as extensively as you wish. The same Texas high school teacher that suggested this access to ERIC also asked this question ... “Is there any way we can get on-line the full text of some of the ERIC research. I very often need to read articles, but they are not all available on the web.” These folks advertise 2-day turn-around in responding to questions, but they took only a day. Here’s their response to me, a response I immediately relayed back to the high school teacher in Laredo, Texas: “ AskERIC provides citations to journal articles and documents listed in the ERIC Database. We are not able to supply the full text of these materials at this time. A limited amount of materials cited in the ERIC Database are available in full text via the Internet from other sources. These include: * ERIC Digests Available for free through the US Department of Education at the following URL: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/index/index.html * Selected ERIC Documents Available for a fee through the ERIC Document Reproduction Service at the following URL: http://edrs.com/ I have listed some information below on obtaining the full text of other documents and journal articles indexed by ERIC. I hope this is helpful. Please send another message if you have further questions. Thanks for using AskERIC! Dave Fulton AskERIC Service ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology 4-194 Center for Science & Technology Syracuse, New York 13244-4100
ERIC references with an ED number are typically research papers and other monographs; the least expensive way to obtain these in full text is by seeking out an ERIC microfiche collection, which are housed at more than 1000 locations worldwide. To locate the ERIC Resource Collection nearest you, connect to: http://www.ericae.net/derc.htm. Some commercially produced books cited in the database are not available in full text through ERIC, and may need to be obtained through interlibrary loan, a book retailer, or the publisher. Otherwise, microfiche, paper, and selected electronic copies can be ordered from: ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS) DynTel Corporation 7420 Fullerton Road, Suite 110 Springfield, Virginia 22153-2852 Phone: 1-800-443-ERIC(3742) or 1-703-440-1400 FAX: 1-703-440-1408 email: service@edrs.com URL: http://edrs.com EDRS operates the document delivery arm of the ERIC system by furnishing microfiche, paper or selected electronic copies of most ERIC documents. Address purchase orders to the preceding address. Fax order and delivery service available. Cost: $4.08 for 25 pages. ***** ERIC References with an EJ number are journal articles. Again, the least expensive way to pursue full text is to consult a library, either to track down the appropriate issue of the originating journal or to try to obtain the article through interlibrary loan. Otherwise, here are three article reproduction services who will provide you with a copy for a fee. Please be aware that no article reproduction service carries 100% of ERIC-indexed journal titles. CARL Uncover currently offers the greatest number of journals. ***** Carl Uncover Document Delivery Service The UnCover Company 3801 East Florida Avenue, #200 Denver, CO. 80210 URL: http://uncweb.carl.org/ Phone: 1-800-787-7979 or 1-303-758-3030 e-mail: sos@carl.org Cost: Articles $10 plus copyright. Fax surcharge for outside US/Canada. ***** UMI Information Store 500 Sansome Street Suite 400 San Francisco, Ca. 94111 Phone: 1-800-248-0360 or 1-415-433-5500 email: orders@infostore.com Cost: $9.00 base rate for titles in the UMI collection, plus minimum $2.00 copyright fee. $12.00 base rate for titles in the "extended" collection, plus any copyright fee. $.25 for each page over the first 10 pages. $5.00 for fax service in U.S. and Canada, additional $1.00 per page after first 10. Call for information regarding other services such as rush/overnight delivery. ***** Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Genuine Article Service 3501 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: 1-800-523-1850 x1536 or 1-215-386-0100 x1536 email: tga@isinet.com (give complete citation, and account info - or your phone number so they can call you for billing instructions.) Cost: $10.75 for first 10 pages, $2.75 for each next 10 ” | |||||||||
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