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Citation machines - Great site that tells you how to create all kinds of citations
My ED 381 students have generously donated sample lesson plans to be used as prototypes using 8 different curriculum models.
*Weigh in on No Child Left Behind - Watch and Read - The News Hour with Jim Lehrer PBS
See companion course WebPages
Original topical material related to: Concepts from ED 721 Fundamentals of Curriculum class are supported by these links. You can find many other pages within my site at the curriculum portion of this site. Herein are curriculum definitions and terms; curriculum planning and development; hints for writing usable curriculum; general information and suggestions about curricular issues: and numerous sample lesson plans which use eight different models of teaching and learning.
Comments: This links page was established as an original part of my site in1997. I intended to collect links to materials of personal professional interest and ones I thought my students might be able to use in my myriad of graduate courses. It has been quite an adventure and over the years this portion has grown, and grown, and grown even more, so that while the one page was easy to catalog, it took forever to load and maintain. Finally, I have revised this portion of my site so that links are now separated into categorical pages and connected through a general links' index on the topical grid below.
Please note that it is important to remember that the Internet is not a permanent medium. Frequently sites don't remain active, they move, or have trouble with all of that electronic gear that not many of us understand, or like our own ends, they just disappear into the cosmic ethers. So, if you find material that appeals to you, create a hard copy in the event it is not there tomorrow.
For my links, if you try to reach a site listed herein and get an error message or a "page not found message," try again later and REMEMBER TO REFRESH YOUR SCREEN! If the site repeatedly fails to appear, please contact me and let me know via my e-mail link below so that I can remove it from my list. I know how terribly frustrating it is to click on a hyperlink and get a "page not found" message. Also, if you find an interesting or informative site related to my topic headings -- one not already part of my lists, please let me know the address so I can add it. Thanks!
The Web is such a fantastic treasure trove of information. Hopefully, the sites selected here represent good examples of information and connections available.
Have fun browsing and many blessings! Leslie
Innovative Trends and Curriculum and Assessment Links
Assessment
Alfie Links - Links on assessment as related to the work of author Alfie Kohn
Character education
Character education - Site devoted to aspects of peace and values education -- many good hints and summaries.
Curriculum possibilities: Alternative schools and promising practices
Project-based learning - Overview of the importance of project-based learning
Essential Questions
Frameworks on-line
CA Curricular Frameworks Online for Reading and Language Arts
Saskatchewan CAN - Curriculum links - A nice array of links and materials at a provincial level.
For UWSP students Online Resources
Curriculum history
Committee of 10 and 15 - Early Standardized curriculum
Integrated curriculum
Kathy Lake's Overview article using Fogarty's work as a basis.
Another article using Fogarty's work as a basis
Lesson Plan Links
Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan Bank - (used to be ERIC Lesson Plans) Why reinvent the wheel? A great teacher resource.
Lessons Plans Pages - Huge resource for teacher on writing lesson plans -- free but be prepared for all those ad windows to open when you use this one.
Wilson's Students' Lesson Plans - Prototypes of lesson plans using 8 different models of teaching and in a variety of subject areas.
Global Environmental Teaching (GET) - Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education has been engaged in the GET Program to establish links with educators in Puerto Rico, Mexico, South Africa and China. Teachers involved in these program are required to submit lessons plans.
Lesson Study - Lesson study is a Japanese educational concept whereby teachers actively observe, review, and discuss en mass the intricacies of a lesson in order to improve the instructional quality of the lesson.
Lesson Study - These pages are from the Mills group and there are links whereby you can watch this process to see how it works.
Philosophy tests - Links that indicate your philosophy of education preferences. It is important to be philosophically congruent with your beliefs about children and learning, and the instructional practices you choose.
- Philo test on behaviorism, cognitivism, or humanism.
- Scoring page for the above test
Dr. Terry Armstrong's philosophy test with online scoring automated from UWSP
Potpourri - interesting odds and ends
Teaching Tolerance - Exceptional materials that are free to classroom teachers on varied aspects of teaching tolerance. The magazine published bi-annually is now on line.
The TIMSS Videotape Classroom Study: TIMMS is the international test in math and science that is given annually. Not understanding why the US scores consistently behind other industrialized countries, in 1998 educational researchers conducted a careful study of different variables comparing things like curriculum materials and teaching methods, specifically with Germany, and Japan. Key differences appeared between teaching methods, curricula, and texts. Here are some websites that have information on that study and the implications for learning in the US.
Webquests - A brainquest exercise
Webquest Links - More details and places to start