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Professional
Organizations
General Resources
Teaching Reading
Teaching Writing
Teaching Poetry
CALLA
Cooperative Learning
Cross-curricular Instruction
Effective Questioning
English Language Learning
Learning Styles
Monitoring Comprehension
Multiple Intelligences
Note taking
Organizational Planning
Self-evaluation
Using/Making Rules
Using Online Resources
Video Instruction
Professional
Organizations
National
Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
National
Council for Social Studies (NCSS)
National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
National
Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
International
Reading Association (IRA)
National
Art Education Association (NAEA)
Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
American
Library Association (ALA)
Teachers
of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
National
Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
National
Middle School Association (NMSA)
No
Child Left Behind (U.S. Department of Education)
General Resources
The
Family Education Network
(from Pearson Education) has a wide variety of educational content,
resources, and shopping for parents, teachers, and students.
Teaching Reading
General
Visit
the Read
Write Think site for literacy lessons, standards, and other
resources in reading and language arts instruction. (From the International
Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English)
Making
Inferences
"Inferential Reading Strategies" describes how teachers can help students make inferences while reading.
Predicting
Devoted to reading
strategies, this site features topics
on making predictions, visualizing, summarizing, and more. (Dade-Monroe
Teacher Education Center)
Reading
Fluency
The
National
Institute for Literacy (NIFL) provides information on helping
students to become more fluent readers and discusses the newest
research on the topic.
Review a range
of strategies for teaching fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, phonemic
awareness, and phonics in the document "An
Overview of Teaching Strategies for Scientifically Based Reading
Research." (North Dakota Department of Public Instruction
Title 1 Office) (PDF format)
Skimming
Study
Skills Online has a concise definition of skimming and click
on the topics for two skim-reading techniques.
Teaching Writing
General
Check
out the National Council of Teachers of English for tips
from teachers on developing writing skills.
The NCTE site
also offers "So
You Want to Be a Better Writer?," a downloadable page with
tips and tools for writing, which you can print out and give to
students. (PDF format)
Classification
Visit
this Classification
(and Division) page for a concise definition of classification
and tips for writing a classification essay. (San Antonio College)
Teach
your students the basics of writing a
division/classification essay. (University Writing Skills page,
University of Bremen)
Making
Inferences
The Critical Thinking website has a series of articles on inferences in reading and writing.
Summarizing
Visit
this site from Worcester State College for characteristics
and tips for summarizing.
Teaching Poetry
Explore
PoetryTeachers.com
for tips on teaching poetry, poetry theatre, contests, and more.
Visit
the Online
Poetry Classroom for a poetry map of America, a poetry timeline,
and access to the teacher resource center.
CALLA
Learn
more about the Cognitive
Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) at this site from
George Washington University.
Read
a
case study by Ana Uhl Chamot, one of the creators of CALLA and
an author of Shining Star, showing how the approach can be implemented
in schools. (PDF format)
Cooperative Learning
The
article "Learning
to Cooperate" gives a teacher's perspective to cooperative
learning. (PDF format)
Foster
cooperative learning by creating a
jigsaw classroom.
The
online version of Harvard Education Letter offers this overview
of cooperative learning models, including links for more information.
Learn
how to use groups to enhance collaborative learning at the Small
Group Learning Page from the National Institute for Science Education.
Read
about cooperative
grouping strategies at this article from Education World.
Discover
how cooperative grouping can enhance
classroom learning (article from Eisenhower National Clearinghouse).
Cross-curricular Instruction
The
ENC Online site (Eisenhower National Clearinghouse) features articles
by teachers, including "Blending Disciplines" and
"Interdisciplinary Team Teaching."
Effective Questioning
Visit
the Learning
Strategies Database and read about the background, purpose and
advantages of questioning strategies. Click on the links at the
bottom of the page for specific examples.
Read
these suggestions for effective
questioning in the classroom. (Nondestructive Testing Resource
Center)
The
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign site offers these techniques
for effective classroom questioning.
English Language Learning
This
teachers'
resource area in Longman.com provides ESL activities, teaching
tips, lesson plans, free downloads, and other useful items.
Everything
ESL offers lessons, resources, and tips for teachers.
Connect
to the world of ESL at TESOL
Online.
This
archive from the National Council of Teachers of English offers
practical
teaching ideas for ESL.
Learning Styles
Adjust
your teaching style to the learning styles of your students. Visit
Teachers
Network for insights from educators.
This
site features tips on "Understanding
Different Learning Styles." (NDT Resource Center)
Monitoring Comprehension
Check
out the Project
TechLink site for topics on teaching students to use self-monitoring
techniques.
The
website from Positive
Approaches to Challenging Behavior has a tip sheet with ideas
on fostering self-monitoring in the classroom. (PDF format)
Multiple Intelligences
Tap
into multiple intelligences; explore Howard
Gardner's theory from explanation to implementation. From Thirteen
Ed Online (PBS).
Explore
the theory of multiple intelligences. Click on the images for
brief descriptions and ideas for lesson plans.
The
TeacherVision
site (from Pearson Education) offers concise definitions of
eight multiple intelligences.
Note taking
The
Study
Skills page from California Polytechnic State University evaluates
five note taking systems, including the Outline, Mapping, and Sentence
methods.
This
page from Study
Skills Topic Pages focuses on taking notes in the classroom.
Organizational Planning
Get
tips from teachers on classroom
management from Teachers Network.
Self-evaluation
The
Teaching
Tips.com site provides tips from teachers on how to encourage
self-evaluation.
Using Online Resources
This
site offers guidelines for teaching
students how to use the Internet. (Teaching and Learning Center,
South Seattle Community College)
Teach
your students "netiquette" with these printable
tips. (Boston Public Library)
Video Instruction
This
Pearson Longman site offers concise tips on using
video to enhance classroom learning.
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