1. 101 + Teaching Tips (not much technology here, but some very interesting ideas)
2. 150 Teaching Methods - Different Methods that can be used in the classroom.
3. 4Teachers - the online space for teachers integrating technology into the curriculum
4. Aim High - Bloom's Taxonomy Breakdown
5. Annenberg Media - Video on Demand - registration required but it is free - Educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for K-12 teachers. Most are for teacher development rather than classroom instruction. You can search by discipline and grade.
6. Best Practices
   1. Facilitating Cooperative Grouping at the computer- Three key strategies in running successful cooperative learning groups:
   2. Library: Best Practices - PDF files on many resources -
   3. Redefining the Role of the Teacher - from Edutopia
   4. Practices Evident in Good Models of Teaching with Technology (GMOTT) - Samples are provided to illustrate this concept.
   5. Effective Teaching - Harry and RoseMary Wong
   6. Students at the Center - Intel
   7. The Wired Classroom - From Now On Journal
7. Best Teacher Description - Do these attributes match you?
8. Best Teaching Practices - what to look for in a best practice teaching classroom
9. Bob Bowman's List of Educational OnLine Tutorials
10. Brainstorming - Learn how to brainstorm effectively using this online training.
11. Classroom Terminology - key terms from Teaching Children Science (close to 300 terms defined, most apply to all classrooms, not just science)
12. Counselor/Teacher Articles - Many suggestions for guidance counselors.
13. Creating Technology Enhanced Student-Centered Learning Environments - An in-depth article with many ideas and suggestions on how to turn a classroom into a student centered learning environment. Teacher roles are modeled and discussed, giving suggestions all along the way.
14. Critical Thinking Sites and Activities
    1. Mission Critical: Critical Thinking activities from San Jose State University
    2. A Field Guide to Critical Thinking from the Skeptical Inquirer magazine
    3. Critical thinking exercises evaluating web sites on one of three topics; Mayan Calendar, The Sixties, and Eggs and Cholesterol
    4. Critical thinking exercises in math from Mathmistakes.com
    5. Higher Order Thinking Skills Help Site - These are the skills that every educator needs to develop in his or her teaching every day! Click on each of the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and get some ideas for asking better questions and preparing better lessons. Excellent site for beginners in the field of education!
    6. Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring Rubric produced by Facione and Facione
15. Curriculum Standards for Subjects with End-of-Course Tests from the state of Tennessee
16. Discipline/Classroom Management
    1. 11 Techniques for Better Classroom Discipline -
    2. Anger Management - Articles and advise on how to deal with an angry child
    3. As Tough as Necessary: Countering Violence, Aggression, and Hostility in Our Schools
    4. Behavior Management Advise Site - This site offers thousands of tips on managing student behavior and step-by-step directions for implementing a great number of standard interventions. It also has a bulletin board on which you can post your disciplinary concerns and receive suggestions from teachers around the world.
    5. Classroom Management - Articles and advise on how to manage your classroom
    6. Classroom Management for new teachers - Many ideas in this article
    7. Classroom management ideas
    8. Classrooms Problem Solvers Archive - Handling Difficult Situations, Handling Difficult Students, The ABCs of Bullying Prevention
       
    9. Behavior Problems & Discipline - If you have a child with behavior problems, the articles and resources on this page will help.
    10. Developing a Discipline Plan for you - The Key Ideas of Seven Models of Discipline.
    11. Discipline Help -A discipline model for handling over one hundred different misbehaviors.
    12. Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Numerous ideas on all subject areas.
    13. Handling Difficult Situations - Six tips to help prevent aggressive incidents in your classroom
    14. Managing your Classroom - Striking a balance between freedom and discipline is a skill that can make all the difference between a well-run classroom and classroom chaos. Here are some techniques educators are using to achieve such a balance.
    15. A Primer on Behavior Management - Entertaining article on behavior management
    16. Responsive Discipline - The Responsive Discipline on-line course will lead you through a series of lessons about discipline for your own personal study. All the information you need is contained in the linked pages to the course.
    17. Rewards - Rewards that Motivate
    18. Sponge Ideas - Fill in the spare 10 minutes with these game ideas.
    19. Stages of Discipline - Set up a consistent system for classroom discipline that will be appropriate for students functioning at all stages
17. E-Letters - Keep current with educational news with these! Middle School e-newsletters -
18. Education News - a page of links to on-line journals, some dealing with instructional technology
19. Effective reading instruction in first grade .pdf version - Presented by Steve Stahl at the 2002 Michigan Reading Recovery Conference.
20. Fact Monster - Everything from Atlas, Almanacs, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, World News, Sports and other facts. Quizzes and games online.
21. Free Email Address Directory - a guide to choosing a free Email service
22. Free OpenCourse - a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
    MIT OCW:
    * Is a publication of MIT course materials
    * Does not require any registration
    * Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity
    * Does not provide access to MIT faculty
23. Grants - where to find grant information
24. Grade book - Engrade - Online grade book that is a free resource. Engrade's online grade book suite includes custom grading scales, weighted assignments, attendance tracking, homework calendar, printable student reports, online student reports, and many more features.
25. Hyper Studio - take look at Roger Wagner's home page for HyperStudio
26. Icebreakers and Energizers - Activities that are just plain fun
27. Icebreakers, games and activities - This site features instructions to several playtested, high quality icebreakers, games, and team building activities
28. Innovation Odyssey – a world tour of innovative uses of technology in education
29. Instructor Idea Exchange - The August, 2000 topic was "What are your favorite ways to kick off the new school year?" You enter your response or read what others wrote. There is an archive of previous topics.
30. Layered Curriculum - Differentiate your classroom
31. Learn the Net - put a human face to cyberspace
32. Learning Differences - Library of PDF files that address NCLB
33. Learning Disability Web site - Many on-line inventories to give your students; Cognitive Processing Inventory, LD terms and Definitions, Parent Support and more.
34. The Lexile Framework for Reading - Download resource kit for free!
35. Lexile Framework - Understanding the Framework
36. Literacy, Information and Technology in Education
37. Memorization Help - Can you remember long lists? your students' names? Try this site for help!
38. Middle Grade Links and much more
39. Middle School Teacher Guide - many ideas
40. Motivating Moments - A wonderful site to peruse when you need a picker-upper.
41. NASA Educator Resource Center at Utah State University
42. Netfiles is an award-winning public television series designed to help teachers integrate the Internet into their classrooms. They are compiling a list of video links to their episodes. Go to this page to view an episode or simply just a segment from their show. You will need Real Player G2 to see these clips.
43. The New Teacher Page - links designed to assist new teachers.
44. On-Line Ordering System from the U. S. Department of Education - This new system is intended to help you identify and order U.S. Department of Education products.
45. Free On-Line Workshops
1. Concept to Classroom - a collaboration between Thirteen Ed Online (WNET New York) and Disney Learning Partnership.
   1. Tapping Into multiple intelligences
   2. Constructivism as a Paradigm for Teaching and Learning
   3. Teaching to Academic Standards
   4. Why the Net? An Interactive Tool for the Classroom
   5. Cooperative and Collaborative Learning
   6. Inquiry-based Learning
   7. Assessment, Evaluation, and Curriculum Redesign
   8. WebQuests
   9. Making Family and Community Connections
   10. Interdisciplinary Learning in Your Classroom
   11. After-school Programs - From Vision to Reality
2. Other collaborations by Thirteen Ed Online (WNET New York)
1. Digital File Management in the Classroom
2. Managing Students With Computers
3. Annenberg/CPB List of Workshops and Courses - Too many to list individually, each requires access to a weekly broadcast. Graduate credit is available for a fee.
4. Learning Math - a series of five multimedia, college-level courses designed to teach mathematics content to elementary and middle school teachers
46. Parent/Teacher Relationships
    1. Building Trust with Schools and Diverse Families - a glimpse of how fellow educators from around the Northwest are addressing issues, overcoming obstacles, and attaining success.
    2. Family Night Lessons - Individual Confidence and Uniqueness
    3. Many Languages, Many Cultures - suggestions and strategies
    4. Parent-Teacher Conferences - Overview followed by stories of conferences.
       
    5. Practice for Positive Relationships 2: Reaching out to Families -exploring what school staff, school communities and education authorities are doing to promote positive behaviour in Scottish schools.
    6. Special Practices and Programs - strategies to reach all parents
47. Powertolearn - Cablevision's nationally recognized education initiative, empowers K-12 learning in the tri-state area by making technology in the classroom useful and by facilitating the home-school connection
48. Professional Resources from Scholastic's Educator magazine - Find information on classroom management, assessment, grants and more.
49. Questioning ToolKit - Learn how to make the most of your questions while teaching!
50. Questions - Deep Questions - Questioning Strategies
51. Reading/Literacy Resources for Present and Future Teachers - From alphabetics to comprehension to reading models to professional resources and lesson plans, this site contains literacy links for present and future teachers.
52. Resources for Teachers - Assessment,Classroom Management , Lesson Plans, and Teacher Helps
53. RHL School Worksheets for the following subjects: Reading Comprehension, English Basics, Math Problem Solving, Research Skills, and Math Computation
54. Scholastic Teacher Resource Center
55. Special Education Page - This page contains special education-related links. General links are at the top of the list; specific category links are at the bottom.
56. Sponge Activities - 10 Games- Ideas for occupying students for ten minutes.
57. Standards and Benchmarks database from McREL
58. Standards, Reform and Professional Development
59. Study Skills Self-Help Information from Virginia Tech's Division of Student Affairs - suggestions on note taking study time, the SQ3R system and much more.
60. StudyStack - Using the StudyStack web site, you use your computer to display a stack of "virtual cards" which contain information about a certain subject. Just like flashcards, you can review the information at your own pace discarding the cards you've learned and keeping the ones you still need to review.
61. Study tips can be found at the Augustine Club of Columbia University.
62. SurWeb - Media Shows for content areas already created! Plus a cache of picture to use for all subject areas, vocational included! Great Site! Also a matrix that includes tests already created by standards. Plus learning segment media shows already created with tests that go along with them!
63. Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers
64. Teacher Resource Center from Scholastic - Get exactly what you need every day (pre-K to 8)
65. Teacher Resources from TeacherLINK
66. Teaching Methods - Multiple links on almost everything dealing with education from curriculum theory to classroom management to cooperative learning. Abundant sources of links.
67. Teaching Practices at Apple Learning Interchange - Here you will discover a window into an educator's classroom, through the extensive use of video to see and hear all facets of the Teaching Practice.
68. Teaching Tips - Great site from Hawaii with loads of info for teachers.
69. Teaching with the Web - Thematic units with resources, online activities, off-line activities and more! Activities categorized by grade level makes for simple navigation.
70. Teachersfirst.com has a classroom resource finder which you can use to search for Internet resources or lesson plans. And if you can not find what you are looking for there, a keyword search is provided.
71. TEAMS Distance Learning for all K12 Educators (Caution! This site has been redesigned, and now requires many more clicks to find resources).
72. Technology Curriculum Integration Ideas - ideas for each of the disciplines on how to integrate technology into the classroom.
73. Technology Integration Made Easy - Education World offers 19 easy and painless ways to integrate technology into your daily routine
74. Technology Tips for Differentiated Instruction -Many ideas on how to use technology to enhance differentiated Instruction.
75. Thinkquest - Over 7,000 websites created by students around the world who have participated in a ThinkQuest Competition
76. Tips and Strategies for Co-Teaching at the Secondary Level - One tool being used by many special and general educators to meet the needs of secondary students is co-teaching.
77. TrackStar - An on-line interface that helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URL's) into lessons. The list of resources acts like a table of contents and remains visible throughout the lesson allowing the user/student to easily browse through the lesson and stay on track.
78. Tutor Training Activities from NWREL
79. Video Clips of Classroom Technology Use
    1. Edutopia - What's working for K-12 schools
    2. Just In Time Technology Integration In service
    3. Learning Math - a series of five multimedia, college-level courses designed to teach mathematics content to elementary and middle school teachers (video clips included in each course)
80. Weaving The Internet Through Your Elementary Literacy Curriculum
81. U. S. Department of Education see also the Tennessee Department of Education

Framework for Evaluation and Professional Growth Office of Accountability and Assessment - from the State of Tennessee Office of Accountability and Assessment
Best Practices of Technology Integration in Michigan - .The lesson plans that you will find here have been written by practicing teachers and have been "kid tested" to work in the classroom.

"We won the grant! Now what do we do?" - A Technology Planning WebQuest for administrators. Little Creek Consolidated Schools has won a grant which will allow them to put more technology into their schools. Many groups are asking questions and they are looking to you for the answers. How will you know what's next and how to satisfy all of those people asking questions? Use this Quest to help not only Little Creek, but your school as well. Designed for use in a TASL session.

1. Assessing Technology Programs from TechTamers (not all links are live)
2. Building Level Technology Plans produced by schools around the country, District Level plans are also available
3. An Educator's Guide to Evaluating The Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms - Prepared for: US Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, also available in .pdf format
4. Evaluating and Updating Technology and Planning from NSBA
5. Guiding Questions for Technology Planning - created by the Regional Technology in Education Consortia
6. Self Assessment instruments
   1. Assessment Tools - from the Technology Applications Center for Educator Development in Texas
   2. District Technology Self-Assessment Form - From Now On (FNO) the Educational Technology Journal This technology assessment form may be duplicated and used within a school district provided $25 is paid. Any other use or duplication is prohibited without express permission.
   3. Learning With Technology Profile Tool - This profile tool will help you to compare your current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance technology, a graph of your responses will be displayed on the screen.
   4. MyTarget - Web-based self-assessment tool allows Indiana teachers to answer a series of questions. Then, with the click of a button, the tool calculates results and recommends professional development resources to fill the gaps. Click on Guest login at the top. It will probably have the old guest data, but you can select your own answers. Tool 2 is the Technology assessment part.
   5. Sample Administrator Technology Self-Assessment Tool - The purpose of developing this sample tool is to assist superintendents, principals, and other administrators in their leadership role of implementing appropriate technology in their schools.
   6. Teaching with Technology Instrument - this five page document has ninety questions on five different topics
   7. Tech Self Assessment - Tool to print off; divided into elementary, middle and high school assessments.
   8. Technology Self Assessment Tool - seventeen page document
   9. Technology Self Assessment Tool - Quia site. Online assessment, but it is sent to the person that created the test. A good use of this would be to print out the test per teacher.
   10. Technology Skills Assessment - Excellent site that has links to all skills to help beginners learn the skill.
7. Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership - For Administrators, By Administrators
8. Technology Planning for K12 Education - resources that will help school districts in their efforts to plan for the implementation and use of technology in teaching and learning activities and processes, articles concerning technology planning, links to other web sites that provide resources for educational technology planning
9. Technology Planning Tools - While specific details about the planning process vary from district to district, most groups work through a similar sequence of planning stages. This section outlines those stages and provides tools and techniques to guide the process. One of the things you will find there is The Ten Commandments of Technology Planning
10. Technology Plans Resources Online
11. The US Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology (OET) develops national educational technology policy and implements this policy through Department-wide educational technology programs

Articles

1. Articles from Tech Soup
   1. A Sample Technology Plan
   2. What Is Involved In Technology Planning?
2. Developing Effective Technology Plans
3. Technology Planning: Recipe for Success - (1994)
4. Promoting Technology: 13 Ways to Do It
5. The Role of the School Business Manager in Technology Planning

Professional Organizations

1. ASCD the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
2. American Association of School Administrators Conferences, job bulletin, legislation, and other helpful resources.
3. Council of the Great City Schools an organization of the nation's largest urban public school systems
4. NAESP The National Association of Elementary School Principals.
5. NASSP National Association of Secondary School Principals.
6. NCTE The National Council of Teachers of English
7. NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
8. NEA National Education Association
9. NMSA National Middle School Association
10. NSBA National School Board Association
11. NSTA National Science Teachers Association
12. Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) - Information on conferences and research, downloadable information and more.
13. Tennessee Department of Education

Miscellaneous

1. Center for Education Reform: Information on charter schools, school choice, standards and testing, teacher and union issues, and other school reform issues.
2. ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center Clearinghouse on Education Management
3. National Center for Educational Statistics a source of recently released publications
4. The New Teacher's Guide to the US Department of Education
5. US Department of Education Programs, publications, news and more.
6. U. S. Universities organized by state

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