Web Resources

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Web Resources
Ed 643, 644 and 645
© Dr. Jurgen Combs

These sites have been suggested by members of the Curriculum and Instruction classes at Shenandoah University - Northern Virginia Campus. With thanks for their contributions!

Chapter	Web Site
1 - School environment	Personal page of a professor from the University of Colorado This site has a lot of good info on Piaget some great links dealing with the topic of least restrictive environment in the classroom setting.
2 - A Vision for Effective Teaching	Phi Delta Kappan Center for Multilingual and Multicultural Research Kathy Schrock's guide for educators Effective Schools A web site for IEP info A good check list for schools and parents re. Least Restrictive Environment A good resource for new teachers and parents Resource site for education students, student teachers, first-year teachers Virginia Department of Education This site describes the 117 misbehaviors Standards of learning site for U.S. and other countries This web site contains a lot of information on the concept of inclusion. Working with Children with Disabilities The National Education Service has a website that gives you over 100 ideas. Three Classroom Techniques That Promote Enhanced Student Learning Good site when dealing with special needs, at-risk students Resources for parents and teachers on learning disabilities a pretty good web site on Vygotsky This link brings you to a webpage that has a LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT CHECKLIST for classrooms This is the link to the Government Guide to the IEP program This is a link to a website called Urban Education Web it is a clearninghouse web site for urban education
3 - Goals and outcomes	A Task Oriented Question Construction Wheel Based on Bloom's Taxonomy.
4 - Instructional Design	Teachers First information on lesson plans for all grade and subject levels. Comprised of many different links to various topics. Direct instruction Strategies Samples of graphic organizers
5 - Sequencing and Organizing Instruction	Lesson ideas and some unit ideas Website for grants This site contains original letters (actual text with pictures of originals in many cases), sound bites, and photographs of other primarysources used in the study of history A site for Black History Month -This is also a sales site, but great for obtaining supplies and aids This is for designing websites WebMonkey: Browser Reference Chart This web site has information dealing with Bloom's Taxonomy. This web site has information on lesson plans and has great links. This site is great for evaluating web sources. This site does a wonderful job of consolidating web sites useful to teachers. This site has some wonderful lesson plans and a form for evaluating web sites
6 - Management	Concepts proposed by Randall Sprick on Classroom Management 11 Techniques for Better Classroom Discipline Promoting Communication Thomas Gordon and the Teacher Effectiveness Model (TET) National Association for Gifted Children - suggestions for parent conferences
7 - Questioning Skills	Filling the toolbox - classroom strategies to encourage student questioning Tufts University Nutrition Navigator Information pertaining to Self-directed learning Kagan workshops;products; books on cooperative learning
8 - Small groups and Coop Learning	Up-to-date information on Learning Styles Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - free material for kids Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - for teachers A list of over 1200 Java-based instructional games and programs A site which allows you to create online surveys
9 - Inquiry and other higher level teaching methods	Inquiry method Teaching Resources has valuable general information about lesson plans, questioning techniques, and other teaching tips This web site deals with types of teacher questions Questioning skills Here is the link to a cooperative learning technique called The Jigsaw Classroom. Discusses teaching strategy discussed in chapter 9 called inquiry teaching.
10 - Assessment/Student Progress	Portfolio assessment glossary
Entire Book	Master Teacher seminars; open forum; publications Discovery Channel A Great Research Site National Education Association This is a great web site for teachers This website seems to be good for many things Parent involvement This site offers a vast collection of educational resources in an easy to follow format. This site offers a database of names and their biographical information. Advice for children and their physical and emotional health. Everything from field trips to lesson plans. Timelines and maps spanning 3,000 years of civilization. Facts and figures on the planets and moons of the Milky Way.

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