Make the Link Learning Standards Benchmark Grid This looks like a great site for IL standards and activities.
Brookfield Zoo has curriculum for teachers. Click on Education, Schools and Other Groups, and Educational Resources.
Virtual Architecture's Web Home includes examples of curriculum-based educational telecomputing projects and resources that are related to the ideas shared in the book.
Working the Web
for Education
Tom March discusses the use of the WWW in the classroom.
Motivation
and Transfer in Language Learning
Transfer and motivation play important roles in learning. Transfer is the
application of prior knowledge to new learning situations. Motivation determines
the extent of the learner's active involvement and attitude toward learning.
PROJECT-BASED
LEARNING AND TRANSFER TO THEATER
This technology project has students create a play with knowledge about
the Titanic.
REFLECTIONS ON THE
TRANSFER OF MATHEMATICS LEARNINGBETWEEN SCHOOL AND OUTSIDE CONTEXTS
Teaching and transfer between Math and other subjects.
Teaching
for Transfer Across the Arts Project (TTAAP)
is a website with a excellent explanation of teaching for transfer. The
site gives research samples, timelines and history.
Skills
Transfer Research is a summary of a book written on a research project
done in this learning style.
Ten
Tools for Teaching for Transfer
These ideas are drawn from How to Teach for Transfer by Robin Fogarty, David
Perkins, and John Barell, Palatine, Illinois: Skylight Publishing, 1992.
Teachervision.com This site has a good definition of differentiated curriculum and some other tips to use in the classroom.
Questioning
Techniques for gifted students Regular Classroom PracticesGo to number
24. This is also a good source of other sites for differentiated curriculum.
This site has questioning techniques to use to with gifted students.
Illinois Mathematics
and Science Academy: Center for Problem-Based Learning (CPBL)
Features the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Center for Problem-Based
Learning in Aurora, IL. Defines problem-based learning as an instructional
approach that develops problem solving strategies, disciplinary knowledge
bases, and skills.
Problem-Based Learning
(PBL)
Features Problem Based Learning (PBL), a tutorial guide for teachers and
students that is based on problem solving to enhance learning. Provides
information on contacts, lesson plans, resources, and events, provided by
the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)
Queens University
This site is a homepage hosted by Queens Universtiy. It seems to be a book
which has 12 chapters. You can click on a chapter to read a portion.
Winters
Joint Unified School District
Peer tutoring program: Winters Joint Unified School District, Winters, CA
(Yolo County) Grades K-12, ADA 1,962
NWREL
Peer tutoring: Lake Washington High School, Benjamin Rush Elementary School
School Improvement Research Series (SIRS)
This site profiles the application of peer tutoring at two American schools.
It lists and describes the criteria that make for effective practice.
NWREL
Peer and cross-age tutoring
School Improvement Research Series (SIRS)
This a good site if you are wishing to get an overview of the issues, positives
and negatives of using this approach. The author makes a strong case for
its potential to promote social and creative values intrinsic to positive
human relationships and healthy human functioning.
Here are some other Peer Tutoring sites tht may be helpful. The one that is the most helpful is at the bottom.
Centre for Paired Learning: lists numerous resources
Peer
Assisted Learning: a book
The Counselling
Foundation of Canada
This is the website of The Counselling Foundation of Canada. The site’s
home page lists 21 peer tutoring studies and brief descriptions of their
findings. The Table of Contents includes links to definitions, potential
benefits, how to set up a peer mentoring program, and research studies done
in order to find out if peer mentoring programs work.
Tip
Sheets: Positive Ways of Intervening with Challenging Behavior
This site, titled “Tip Sheets: Positive Ways of Intervening with Challenging
Behavior”, explains peer tutoring as a proactive intervention for the
classroom. It was developed to help teachers and parents provide the best
educational opportunities to students with emotional and behavioral disorders.
The site includes an introduction to peer tutoring, who should be tutors
and how to train them, how to initiate peer tutoring, ideas for using peer
tutoring, and so on.
Digital
Library and Archives
This study examined the effectiveness of individual learning versus collaborative
learning in enhancing drill-and-practice skills and critical-thinking skills.
The subject matter was series and parallel dc circuits.
Implementing
Collaborative Learning
How does Collaborative Learning actually work in a classroom and how do
students react to it? A Brief Reflection.
Teachnology.com has worksheet, graphic organizer and rubric samples.
SEDOL has online
resources for disabilities.
4Teachers.org
resources for special needs learners
NACG National Association for Gifted Children has links to further resources.