http://www.netvouz.com/jgordon?feed=rss jgordon's bookmarks on Netvouz http://shop.ascd.org/productdisplay.cfm?categoryid=books&productid=101010 Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement ROBERT J. MARZANO, DEBRA J. PICKERING, JANE E. POLLOCK This is an exemplary resource for strategies based on research-based educational practices. jgordon Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:59:23 GMT http://cri.cps.k12.il.us/pdf/Literacy_Handbook.pdf This resource from the Chicago Reading Initiative provides very explicit guidance for the components of their literacy framework. It defines a strategy, what the teacher does, what the students do and what an observer is looking for. Rubrics for age-appropriate evaluations are included. jgordon Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:21:51 GMT http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/devel/Dist_Indices/departments.htm This site offers excellent support for backward design curriculum dev. See departments for Understandings etc. See English Lang. Arts for great strategies also. jgordon Sun, 09 Apr 2006 22:21:47 GMT http://wordsift.com/ Paste your text into the box. Press 'Sift' to visualize. The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. Integrated with the amazing Visual Thesaurus® and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text. jgordon Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:22:12 GMT http://scienceideas.org/pubs-pres/articles-conceptmapping/Concept-mapping-as-a-means.pdf Concept Mapping qs A Means for Binding Knowledge to Effective Content-area Instruction: An Interdisciplinary Perspective1,2 Michael R. Vitale, East Carolina University Nancy R. Romance, Florida Atlantic University 1 Paper Presented at the Second International Conference on Concept Mapping, San Jose, Costa Rica, September 5-8, 2006. 2 This research was supported by the National Science Foundation,Project Number 0228353 jgordon Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:24:20 GMT http://education.byu.edu/cpse/co_teaching/co_teach_models.html Co-Teaching: A Model for Classroom Management jgordon Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:10:24 GMT http://www.eyeoneducation.com/prodinfo.asp?number=683%2D7 Like Amy Benjamin’s other books, this one is easy to read and simple to implement. It demonstrates that you can manage the complexities of differentiated instruction – and save time -- by using technology as you teach. It showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies which are easy to apply in your own classroom. Brief Contents - Tiered Tasks - Unit Menus - Constructing Learning Centers and Stations - Differentiated Instruction in Whole-Class Instruction - E-Communications - Using Databases to Make Instructional Decisions - Models jgordon Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:06:34 GMT http://rer.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/65/2/145 Jill Fitzgerald 1995 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill See related research on the same site. jgordon Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:30:36 GMT http://www.thecenterlibrary.org/cwis/SPT--QuickSearch.php?ss=Give+Me+Five "Give Me Five!" is a metaphorical model used to provide an introduction to the most essential aspects of instructional planning for very heterogeneous student populations. The planning forms are included, but the thought process can be applied to other design templates. jgordon Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:19:11 GMT http://www.thecenterlibrary.org/cwis/SPT--Home.php The IRC E-Kit is an electronic toolkit of resources for ESL and bilingual K-12 classrooms, teachers and administrators. jgordon Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:29:35 GMT