Communicator more about Congress in the classroom® at http political arena that affect students'ideas and beliefs. Grant of $3,000 for her project entitled Understanding http://www.webcommunicator.org/site resources/archives/october2001.htm
Extractions: web-based newsletter providing educators with news and ideas to enhance civic education and improve the understanding of Congress. "Communicator" is one of the five sites that make up The Dirksen Center's Web suite. Each monthly "Communicator" provides information about any changes to the other four sites in The Center's Web suite, share classroom uses of the information posted on them, and highlight any Center related accomplishments. Go ahead, take a peek
Intel Education: Unit & Project Plans Get ideas to engage students from unit and project plans developed by Scoring GuideUse this scoring guide to evaluate and improve classroom unit plans. http://www.intel.com/education/unitplans/
Extractions: var w_thisPageId = 16; instantiateArr(100); United States Home Select a Location Site Map Contact Us ... About Intel Home Computing Business Computing Developer Reseller / Solutions Advanced Search drawNav(w_thisPageId) Learning Projects Search Exemplary Plans Unit Plan Design Scoring Guide ... Other Unit Plan Resources United States Brazil Canada France Germany Ireland Israel Italy Japan Malaysia Mexico Russia United Kingdom
The Really Big List Of Classroom Management Resources ideas and philosophies on classroom management; classroom Management First TeachersHelping Children The Gifts project; classroom Management; Skilltalk http://drwilliampmartin.tripod.com/classm.html
Extractions: The Really Big List of Classroom Management Resources The Really Best List of Classroom Management Resources. ... If you are interested in making better use of the Internet try The Really Useful List of Fill-in-the-Blank Web Tools for Teachers and Students or Michigan Teacher Network Backflip Classroom Management Sites EDUC 334 ... Teachers' Toolbox Ideas on Classroom Management The links were collected by the following members of the Fall 2000 online graduate course, ED554 Modern Educational Practices, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ: Christine McClean Theresa Guardino Erica Komito Janna Van Velson Ruth Ann Buscaglia John Walby Kristine Toland Kim LeCras Laura Tracey Lisa Cybulski Mary Ellen Kacsmar Alisa Rosen Megan Schramm-Possinger Merri Hillman Michael Boylan Peter Dixon Robyn Roditis Sandy Phillips Susan Henry Tamiko Trotman Morales Tracy Mascia Kara Ragan Danielle Devine. This site was created on December 1, 2000, by Dr. Bill Martin who teaches the course. Last modified on October 24, 2002. If you ask me what to do about a kid being "off task"one of our favorite buzzwordsmy first response is going to be, "What's the task?" Alfie Kohn
Project AstroBio: Teacher Information Activity and Resource Notebook, plus other classroom resource materials from workto participate in project AstroBio. workshop we will give you ideas about how http://www.astro.washington.edu/projAstroBio/teacherinfo.html
Extractions: A STELLAR OPPORTUNITY FOR TEACHERS What is Project AstroBio? In this innovative program twenty-five 3rd - 12th grade teachers from the Puget Sound region are paired each year with volunteer astronomers and other scientists who have an interest in working with local schools and organizations. Together, teachers and partner scientists participate in a hands-on training workshop, receive high quality resource materials, and develop a strategy for working together in and out of the classroom. There are a total of 68 Project AstroBio partnerships, from Everett to Olympia! "Classic" Project Astro, which began in Seattle in 1997, has become Project AstroBio as of 2002, to reflect a new and growing involvement in the sciences of astrobiology, which is the study of the origin, history, and extremes of life on Earth, as well as the possibility of life on other planets. Whereas in past years Project Astro teachers were paired solely with amateur, student, and professional astronomers, Project AstroBio teachers now may be paired with either astronomers or with scientists with more of a biology background. The range of science that can be done by hands-on activities now includes not only astronomy and related sciences, but also aspects of life in the universe. Partnerships involve more than just one-time visits:
The Miracle WorkerProject Ideas (Lesson Plan) The Miracle Worker project ideas. Research Helen Keller. Write words?Create a scene that shows how Annie continues to teach Helen. http://teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-9359.html
Extractions: Toward the end of the play, Annie says to Kate, "We're born to use words..." With your group, discuss the importance of language. Brainstorm how different life would be without language. Appoint a recorder for your group to write down your ideas, and then discuss your ideas with the members of another group.
Merrill College ideas Write about how your experience in the classroom relates to Lesson Plan ideasBring in a speaker from the outside to Describe your lesson or project. http://www2.ucsc.edu/merrill/academics/classroomconnection2.html
Extractions: Rachel Brody, Special Programs Coordinator Classroom Connection is sponsored by Merrill College. The goal of the program is to help our local schools and provide UCSC students with a service learning opportunity. Participants help in elementary classrooms and after-school programs. 5 units = 6 hour placement per week / 48 hours per quarter 3 units = 3 hour placement per week / 24 hours per quarter 5 unit Upper Division Field Study, 6-hour placement per week/ 48 hours per quarter. Pre-requisite two quarters of Merrill 85A or B. This course entails independent projects arranged with director, Tom Turrentine. The following are elements of the "Classroom Connection" course. *
Maryland Student Service Alliance a speaker come in to teach students about in a journal; having a classroom discussion;preparing a the service experience; videotaping the project and reviewing http://www.mssa.sailorsite.net/par.html
Extractions: HOME SERVICE-LEARNING PROJECT IDEAS LOCAL INFO ... RELATED LINKS Volunteerism : Volunteers engage in service for a variety of personal reasons. They do not necessarily link their service to academic studies nor do they receive academic credit for their efforts. Community Service : People engaging in community service do so for a variety of reasons. This is a broad term that can encompass court ordered, stipended or volunteer service. It also does not necessarily link to academic studies. Work Study Internship : Student interns frequently work at for-profit business to benefit the financial standing of that business. They are not necessarily working to improve their communities through these internship experiences. There can be overlap between work study internships and service-learning. Students are engaged in service-learning if through their internship experiences they work to improve the health or welfare of their community while linking this to their academic studies. Service-learning projects must include academic preparation, service activities, and structured reflection...
HyperStudio Press Room freedom to create as they teach and learn Content Library, organized for efficientclassroom use and s Guide packed with project ideas, curriculum guidelines http://www.hyperstudio.com/pressroom/sept2000.html
Extractions: julie.gates@education.com Sunburst Technology SHIPS DYNAMIC NEW VERSION OF TEACHERS' CLASSROOM FAVORITE HYPERSTUDIO SOFTWARE HyperStudio 4 offers educators and students freedom to create as they teach and learn in the classroom TORRANCE, Calif., Sept. 25, 2000 ö Today, Sunburst Technology shipped HyperStudio 4, a new hybrid version of the original HyperStudio , with more new features and content, specifically designed for classroom use. For more than 10 years, HyperStudio has been a teachers favorite for encouraging students to express themselves and present their ideas as they bring their written projects to life by integrating all multimedia elements and animation. The new HyperStudio 4 is packed with dozens of new features that make it easy to use for beginners at all grade levels, yet even more powerful and dynamic for advanced users. Included as a bonus in the package is Morph Pro 2.5 software, which enables students to transform and morph images instantly and import them into their HyperStudio projects. HyperStudio 4 is more than typical presentation software. It enables students to create highly interactive multimedia reports, projects and presentations with the ease of drag-and-drop technology, but without the limits of wizards and pre-made graphics that can stifle creativity.
NEA: Tomorrow's Teachers -- 2003 Beyond the classroom. Positive Change Takes Root. Outreach org. Try some ofthese ideas for your next community outreach project Support http://www.nea.org/tomorrowsteachers/2003/beyondclass.html
Extractions: High-Tech Teaching Classroom Connection Beyond the Classroom On the Hill ... President's Message Beyond the Classroom Outreach to Teach plants long-term improvements. W hen NEA members visit a city, they leave it in better shape than when they found itwith long-term effects. On June 26, 2002, more than 260 NEA members descended on N.W. Harllee Elementary School in Dallas, Texas, for the Student Program's sixth annual Outreach to Teach event. For six hours, volunteers painted classrooms, assembled playground equipment, designed bulletin boards, landscaped the grounds, cleaned and arranged furniture, and organized the school's literacy library. "It's an awesome opportunity to come together and make a difference in these students' lives and the environment that they learn in," says Jennifer Koterba, a sophomore at Michigan State University. A wide range of NEA members, including active, retired, ESP, and higher ed, volunteer with Student Program members for the cause. Kari Reinert, a senior at Peru State College in Nebraska, says the project provides a great opportunity for teachers to work together.
Astronomy Web Pages Project As part of the Beyond the classroom project at UCSB, I Grade Science D. Duration Thisproject has been describe and connect the essential ideas, arguments, and http://homepage.mac.com/mrlaurie/btcfolder/Astronomy web pages Project.htm
Good Ideas In Teaching Precalculus And... Good ideas in Teaching Precalculus And Using Computers in the classroom Applicationsof Polynomiography in 1 in lab) Math Tools project Simulating Graphical http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/precalc-conf/prec-prog-2003.html
Educating For Freedom: In The Classroom And Beyond throughout the world brought the ideas of liberty to their students with InternationalFreedom project help. are even reaching beyond the classroom, using non http://www.atlasusa.org/highlight_archive/2002/winter2002/winter_4.html
Extractions: For the past two years, Atlas has administered the International Freedom Project (IFP). This initiative helps to spread freedom around the globe by sponsoring university courses on the ideas that are its building blocks: the rule of law, democracy, free enterprise, and the open society. Helping further to promote these ideas, IFP courses often mesh with efforts to promote liberty outside the academy. During 2001, we saw an exciting example of this in Uruguay, where Pablo da Silveira, a 2001 International Freedom Project grant winner, has used his course as an opportunity to discuss choice-based education reform both with his students and with the wider public. As Professor of Political Philosophy at the Catholic University in Montevideo, Dr. da Silveira collaborated with staff from CERES in Montevideo, an Atlas network institute, to offer a course entitled "Freedom, Equal Opportunity, and Excellence: Choice and Education." The class addressed the moral, egalitarian, and practical arguments for school choice and tapped real-world experience to boot. Support from the International Freedom Project allowed major participants in regional education reform efforts - from Chile, Brazil, and Argentina - to travel to Montevideo and share their insights with the class. The educators, however, did not limit their outreach to the academy. Taking advantage of the foreign experts' presence, Professor da Silveira and his colleagues planned a series of appearances on national radio and even a luncheon with an influential Congressional leader. Although education reform in Uruguay has many of the same opponents as it does in the United States (teachers' unions and a sclerotic state bureaucracy) the professor reports that:
Extractions: By Cathy Cockrell, Public Affairs 10 Jan 2001 These conversations, recorded by a Santiago radio station, are part of a rich trove of electronic resources that local K-12 teachers are developing in collaboration with Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies. The program - one of 11 being developed under the aegis of the campus's Interactive University Project - brings educators together to learn ways to incorporate technology into existing lesson plans as well as to develop curriculum that takes advantage of digital resources. "Coverage of Latin America and Latino affairs in classroom textbooks is incomplete...." says Isaac Mankita, project coordinator for the center. "In San Francisco and Oakland, the diversity of students in classrooms highlights the need for teachers to know more about Latin America and Latino history and current events." Oakland teachers spent several days discussing how they might use "Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey," the autobiography of Latin American intellectual Ariel Dorfman, to strengthen lessons on geography, history, politics, human rights and writing.
Pearson At School is new information on Web resources, ideas for generation project ideas See More. ageappropriate,hands-on activities that can help you teach basic concepts http://pearsonatschool.com/themes/index.asp?st={BC3F2DC1-E9EB-4F8F-A8C4-91E79D61
TEACHERS HELPING TEACHERS use them as I start a topic or project to get can immediately use in improving thepositive selfesteem in the classroom ideas FOR NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS. http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/ClassroomManagement.html
Extractions: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT SIGN UP FOR MAKE-UP WORK! GRADES: 6-12 All graded assignments are given a number. A master "table of contents" of the numbered assignments is maintained by the teacher and posted in the room. When students are absent, they are to check the table of contents and sign up for make-up work by writing their name, the date absent, and the assignment number(s) on the clip board. When the teacher has the make up work for them, the student's name is highlighted in yellow on the clip board, so they know that it is ready to be picked up. The first page in students' notebooks is a "table of contents," which they update daily by adding any numbered assignments and recording grades. In this way, students can take responsibility for keeping up with their make-up work and have the information needed to calculate their grades. This eliminates the interruptions of students asking for make up work during class. submitted by PAM SHANNON
Bulletin Board - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Cross-curricular literature expansion activities.Category Reference Education Subjects Language Arts Literature project Contact Information Mrs. Linn McDonald, art teacher, Oakland that serveschildren in multiage classroom settings. 15 and was looking for ideas for my http://www.eric-carle.com/bb-bb.html
Extractions: We read Brown Bear to our special needs preschoolers in speech therapy group time. The children sequenced the animals in the order they were seen in the book, and used their own names to ask other children what animal they saw. They also placed the animals on a large picture scene according to where the animals live. For example, they could place the Bear in the tree, under the tree, or in the woods, and the cat in the barn, in the house, or next to the house. The children communicated their ideas through sign language, picture symbols, and verbal language.
:: NASA Quest > Women Of NASA :: ways to integrate the Women of NASA interactive project into your These ideas canbe used in a variety of settings and Technology Center, Lab, or classroom. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/teachingtips.html
Extractions: The following ideas are suggestions for creative ways to integrate the Women of NASA interactive project into your teaching and learning. These ideas can be used in a variety of settings and span multiple disciplines and grade levels. They are meant to be a springboard to launch your own imaginative lessons based on your personal teaching style, methods of facilitation, and unique students. The Occupations Chat Lesson is a complete curriculum unit to use with the live chats, forums, and webcasts. It contains: objectives, methods of evaluation, preparation plans, chat lesson plans and worksheets. Astro-Venture is an educational, interactive, multimedia Web environment highlighting NASA careers and astrobiology research in the areas of Astronomy, Geology, Biology and Atmospheric Sciences. Students in grades 5-8 are transported to the future where they role play NASA occupations and use scientific inquiry, as they search for and build a planet with the necessary characteristics for human habitation. Supporting activities include chats and Webcasts with NASA experts, online collaborations, classroom lessons, student publishing area and occupation fact sheets.
Welcome To USGS Learning Web K12 earth science education, exploration, and life-long learning. From the US Geological Survey.Category Science Earth Sciences Education K through 12 homework. project ideas Put creativity into your project. Homework Lesson plansand activities for teachers to use in the classroom. Lesson http://www.usgs.gov/education/
Observing Classroom Processes In Project-Based Learning Using Multimedia Observing classroom Processes in projectBased Learning changes in classroom processes in project-based classrooms in classroom processes between Multimedia project classrooms and http://www.ed.gov/Technology/TechConf/1999/whitepapers/paper3.html
Extractions: Center for Technology in Learning SRI International Abstract : This paper discusses methods for observing changes in classroom processes in project-based classrooms using multimedia technology. The tool was used as part of a five-year evaluation of a local Technology Innovation Challenge Grant program called Challenge 2000: Multimedia Project. In the paper, we discuss the design of the observation tool and present findings about the differences in classroom processes between Multimedia Project classrooms and comparison classrooms. Project classrooms, we found, are more likely to be learner-centered and engage students in long-term, complex assignments. INTRODUCTION In addition to these kinds of studies of technology use in schools, in recent years there have been a number of published reports using national data that show the promise of technology to support school reform. Many of these studies rely on survey data, student achievement data, or a combination of both in their analysis. Becker (1999), for example, has published some of the results from his recent survey of teaching practice and technology use in the United States on the World Wide Web, in which he found fewer than 1/3 of teachers were having students conduct research on the Web. The Educational Testing Service has found that when students use computers to apply higher order concepts and when teachers are knowledgeable about how to use computers as productivity tools, students show significant gains in mathematics achievement (Wenglinsky, 1998).
Videoconferencing Resources http//www.learningspace.org/videoconf/class/ideas.html. Ready, Set Goals Video projecthttp//www.seahawks http//www.learningspace.org/videoconf/classroom.html. http://www.ri.net/vidcon/resources.htm
Extractions: The purpose of this page is to share resources and information relating to videoconferencing. We hope the site is helpful in educating, encouraging understanding, and representing a mix of ideas and suggestions. OPERATION AND PREPARATION FOR VIDEOCONFERENCING Videoconferencing Presentation http://www.tli.unt.edu/library/videoconf/featured.html Everything a user should know about the Polycom ViewStation (PPT) Megan Crabb, The Ohio State University http://commons.internet2.edu/html/commons-presentations.html Using ViaVideo http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/agcomm/videoconf/video-c/via.htm An archive of presentations pertaining to the Internet2 Commons, including presentations from Internet2 Site Coordinator Training sessions http://commons.internet2.edu/html/commons-presentations.html Steps in organizing a video conference http://www.learningspace.org/videoconf/class/organizing.html A teachers guide to videoconferencing http://www.tli.unt.edu/library/videoconf/featured.html
