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**EDUCATION RESOURCE PAGE ** ** · [|Teaching Strategies to Promote Active Learning]  o Description || · [|Active Learning With PowerPoint]  o Description ||  · [|Authentic Assessment Toolbox] o Description || · [|Rubistar] o Description || · [|Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide for Science and Math Instructors]  o Description || · [|Classroom Assessment Techniques]  o Description || · [|Classroom Assessment Techniques Examples] o Description || · [|The Case for Authentic Assessment] o Wiggins, Grant (1990). The case for authentic assessment. //Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation//, 2(2). Retrieved February 7, 2010 from http://PAREonline.net/getvn.asp?v=2&n=2. This paper has been viewed 142,684 times since 11/13/1999. o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This article defines and describes authentic assessment while making an argument for its value in classroom in spite of the time and cost it may take to build and administer high quality authentic assessments. || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[|The Concept of Formative Assessment] o <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Boston, Carol (2002). The concept of formative assessment. //<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation //<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, 8(9). Retrieved February 7, 2010 from http://PAREonline.net/getvn.asp?v=8&n=9. This paper has been viewed 225,091 times since 8/6/2002. || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[|Fundamental Assessment Principles for Teachers and Administrators] o <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Key principles that must be considered in the design, administration, and interpretation of assessments are discussed in this article. o <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">McMillan, James H. (2000). Fundamental assessment principles for teachers and school administrators. //<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation //<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, 7(8). Retrieved February 7, 2010 from http://PAREonline.net/getvn.asp?v=7&n=8. This paper has been viewed 135,391 times since 9/23/2000. || · [|Project STAIRS: Assessment Resources] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This site contains a substantial list of resources that review general assessment techniques, rubrics, and how technology and assessment can be linked. || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Today’s Middle Level Educator – Formative Assessment Search] o //<span style="color: #484848; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two good interviews and three articles are listed. These resources offer a good overview of what formative assessment is and is not, how to implement it in the classroom and how and when to use the results. //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Rubrics] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Concept Mapping] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Discussion] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Suggestions for Classroom Discussions] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> || <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Strategies for Dealing With Troublesome Behaviors in the Classroom] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (for higher education, but very applicable to all classrooms) o Description o || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|University of Tennessee at Chattanooga – Cooperative Learning Structures and Techniques] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Active and Cooperative Learning] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Barbara Millis’ List of Cooperative Learning Links] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|National Institute for Science Education Collaborative Learning (Small Group Learning Page)] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Collaborative Learning: Group Work and Study Teams] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Jigsaw Cooperative Learning] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[|American Library Association Resources on the TEACH Act] <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[|Fair Use Evaluator] <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[|Public Domain Slider] <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[|Exceptions for Instructors in U.S. Copyright Law] o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Creating Learning Communities (Online PowerPoint)] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Description || · Hyperlinked Resource o Description || · Hyperlinked Resource o Description || · Hyperlinked Resource o Description || · Hyperlinked Resource o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Teaching for Inclusion] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (pdf) o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Teaching Tolerance] o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Ideas for the First Day of School. Websites compiled by Sue LeBeau] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
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o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|ProTeacher! Back to school ideas….] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Education World – First-Day-of-School Icebreakers Help Students and Teachers Warm Up!] o Description || · [|Learning Styles (VARK)] o Description || · [|Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire] o Description || · [|Learning Styles - Enneagram Test] o Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Lesson Planning: A Procedure, Tools, and Resources] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Planning for Instruction – Instructional Objectives] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Teaching and Learning Strategies] (New Horizons for Learning) o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A thorough list of the best researched and most widely implemented methods. o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Assignment: Pick one and research it. Describe it. Why did you pick it? At what grade levels and in what kinds of instruction would it be most useful? How would you justify using it to a parent? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Eureka! AGORA (Assemblage of Great Online Resources for Adults)] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This web site provides methods and strategies for adult learning. Many are applicable to K-6 education. o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Assignment: Pick a method or strategy that is applicable to your clinical placement grade level. List and summarize it. Pick three additional strategies that will take less than five minutes to implement. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Teaching Vignettes of Teaching Strategies] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This site lists a variety of teaching strategies used by one particular teacher and provides pictorial examples. o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Assignment: Pick one strategy and list and summarize it. How might technology make this strategy more effective? How might technology make it less effective? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Instructional Strategies Online] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Description o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[|Teaching Tips] o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Description o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hyperlinked Title o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hyperlinked Title o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Description || · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hyperlinked Title o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Description ||
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