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GENERAL
EDUCATION RELATED LINKS
Here you will
find a number of general education related Internet resources. Many of
the sites below have a vast number of links that you can use for your classes
and your future students.
CHAPTER
RELATED LINKS
Chapter
1 - Applying Psychology to Teaching
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The New
Teacher Page is a website dedicated to helping new teachers with their
first year experiences in the classroom.
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2Learn,
an Alberta project, is a site dedicated to collaborative learning projects,
coordinating on-line educational resources, virtual field trips, and much
more. This site is bilingual (French and English) and provides online tutorials
to new users.
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Kathy Schrock
is a Technology Coordinator at a small school on CapeCod in the United
States that has created an award
winning website dedicated to teacher assistance and professional growth.
Elements of this site include teacher lesson plans, links to useful on-line
resources and much more.
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This is an on-line
book produced by the United States Department of Education. Based on conversations
with a number of First Class Teacher Award winners in the US, this can
be an excellent resource to give anyone an idea of what teaching is like,
from an American
perspective.
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The United States
Department
of Education.
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From your text:
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American Psychologcial
Association's (APA) database.
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EduPage,
canadian on-line education digest.
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AskERIC
Virtual Library.
Chapter
2 - Stage Theories of Development
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A very comprehensive
website on Educational
Psychology maintained by Dr. Margaret D. Anderson at Cortland College
that contains detailed information about Erikson, Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg
and others. Included is information about stages of devevlopment as well
as biographies, critiques of theories, and other references and links.
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The Sigmund
Freud and the Freud Archives are maintained by The New York Psychoanalytic
Institute and Society. This website contains information and links on Freud,
Freud texts available on the Internet as well as links to other writings
on Freud.
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A nice overview
of the life of Erik
Erikson. A biography is included with a brief description of his theory
of psychosocial development. This is part of a larger Personality Theories
site maintained by Dr. C. George Boeree from the Psychology Department
at Shippensburg University.
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The Jean
Piaget Society's home page. This site focuses exclusively on Piaget,
his life, contribution to psychology, provides links for references, links
for teachers, students as well as links to upcoming conferences. The 30th
Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society will be held June 1-3, 2000,
in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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A link to the
Jean
Piaget Archives at the University of Geneva. Links to his biography
as well as access to archives of his work are provided. The Jean Piaget
archives aims to gather all works written by Piaget as well as papers and
books inspired by him. This website is also available in French, Spanish
and German.
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The Vygotsky
Centennial Project maintained by the Department of Psychology, Massey
University , New Zealand. Their aim is to bring together a number of Vygotsky-related
materials together with a number of references and links about his life
and theories of development. Acting as a "link-site" they welcome any Vygotsky-related
submissions.
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A website dedicated
to a review of Lawrence
Kohlberg by the Department of Education at Pepperdine University. Included
are biographical data, description of his stages of development, critiques
of his stage theory as well as related links.
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The Harvard
Faculty Resource Guide page on Dr. Carol Gilligan, the Patricia Albjerg
Graham Professor of Gender Studies at Harvard University's Graduate School
of Education. Links to related sites about her work as well as her phone
number are available.
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From your text:
Chapter
3 - Age-Level Characteristics
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A site dedicated
to the first three years of
a child's life. Included are parent resources, description of development
stages, important issues for parents and other early childhood resrouces.
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The home page
for the Child Development Institute
in California. This site contains many resources from early to mid adolescence
including development basics, information about ADHD and other Learning
Disabilities, free parenting materials as well as information about Internet
safety for children.
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Yahooligans
A website designed by Yahoo, directed specifically at helping young children
find interesting resources on the Internet.
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A new Canadian
site, funded in part by Health Canada, focused on the transitions of early
life, from early childhood to adolescence.
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Child
and Family Canada is a website designed to provide public education
about children and families. They also provide links to relevant resources.
Over forty-six non-profit organizations took part in this initiative.
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Webgrrls
International, an international networking community in or interested
in new media and technology. This site has links to local chapters in every
Canadian city promoting a proactive, positive approach to women and technology.
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ADOL:
Adolescnce Directory On-Line is a heartily endorsed site that focuses on
adolescent issues. This site is maintained by the Center for Adolescent
Studies at Indiana University and covers topics such as conflict and violence,
mental health issues, as well as a teacher talk forum for discussion.
Chapter
4 - Assessing Student Variability
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Statistics
every writer shoud know is a website written in plain English to demystify
many statistical techniques and analyses.
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Want to boost
your standardized test scores? The Princeton
Review trains students to overcome the "limits" of standardized tests
like the SAT and significantly improve their scores.
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A great listing
of on-line intelligence tests that you can take over the World Wide Web.
This site has links to both
conventional IQ tests and alternative IQ tests as well as personality tests
and entrepreneurial tests.
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A link to Uncommonly
Difficult IQ tests. This site provides links to a number of highly
difficult IQ tests that can be taken both on and off line.
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Does IQ really
matter? Check out the estimated IQ
scores of some of the greatest geniuses of all time. This site also
includes a number of intelligence testing links
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The National
Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) is an advocacy group
that was formed to end the misuse and abuse of standardized testing. This
site has links to educational reform, publications, resources and links
to current projects from k-12 to higher education.
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Twenty eight resource
links from the Education
Forum on Delphi on Authentic Assessment for students from subject specific
links to resources on performance assessment.
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From your text:
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Harvard's Project
Zero, validating Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.
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References for
evaluating standardized tests include on-line and CD-ROM services such
as the Buros Institute.
Chapter
5 - Dealing with Student Variability
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The Inclusive
Education website at McGill University is maintained by Lisa Reisinger
and contains a number of excellent resources including teacher tips, on-line
resources and information about professional development.
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The Inclusive
Education website produced by the Renaissance Group (a consortium of
universities) provides excellent special education resources such as: legal
issues, teacher competencies, role of administration, preparation of students
and teachers and other links to inclusive education on the Internet.
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A link to the
TEACCH
program based at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A highly
popular inclusion program for children with autism, this site explains
the TEACCH method of inclusion and gives a number of resources related
to inclusive education.
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The National Organization
in the United States for mental
retardation contains advocacy information, a discussion board, resources
and links on mental retardation, and links to research and program services.
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The Special
Needs Education Project was designed by SchoolNet to provide comprehensive
and current resources, lesson plans, diagnostic tools and many other excellent
items of information about special education.
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LD
OnLine is an interactive information guide about learning disabilities.
This site provides information for teachers, parents and children. LD OnLine
contains audio clips of learning disability experts as well as many information
resources and artwork of children with learning disabilities. This site
also contains information about Attention Deficit Disorder.
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The website for
the National Association for Gifted Children
contains a number of links to publications, public policy information and
membership benefits. Parents will also find a number of resources on assisting
their gifted children.
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From your text:
Chapter
6 - Understanding Cultural Diversity
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The Canadian
Heritage site is focused on Canadian cultural identity, providing links,
Canadian-centric news, as well as governmental publications on Canadian
culture.
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ERIC
Clearinghouse's Urban Education Web focuses on recourses related to
urban school settings, cultural diversity and multicultural education.
Links to publications, resources for urban/minority families and other
educational related information are availble.
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This is a very
interesting set of links provided by the ESU
7 project from the State of Nebraska in the United States. A number
of interesting links are provided, categorized by both ethnicity-related
and general categories.
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The University
of Virginia's Multicultural
Pavilion provides a vast amount of resources, information and links
about multiculturalism for educators, students and activists. A discussion
board is available as well as published student work, teacher related resources
and much more.
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Produced by the
United States Department of Education's Office
of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, the National
Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education includes publications, journal articles
and links to related sites on bilingual education.
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The University
of Texas produced this page that provides a number of interesting
links to Governmental organizations, journals, schools and online projects
related to bilingual education.
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The Government
of Canada's Office of Indian and Northern
Affairs. This bilingual site contains relevant information to northern
affairs such as resources on Nunavut, legislation, documents from the Royal
Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and many other interesting links.
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The Office
of Francophone Affairs of the Ontario Provincial Government. This site
contains information on the French Language Services Act, historical information,
relevant legislation and links to the Ontario Francophone community (bilingual
site).
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This French only
site is the main home page for the Ministère
de l'Éducation du Québec. It contains links to Quebec
schools, French language activities, related information links and links
to Quebec education legislation. Please also consult the Québec
English Schools Network for more information about English education in
Québec (http://www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/).
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From your text:
Chapter
7 - Devising and Using Objectives
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This site, maintained
by Professor Günter Krumme from the University of Washington, focuses
entirely on Bloom's
taxonomy. It contains links to literature, other on-line resources
as well as links to journal articles.
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Outcome based
education resources from Vista University in South Africa. A number of
on-line documents are available, along with annotated bibliographies of
resources for those interested in outcome
based educational reform.
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The Save
Our Schools network is a website dedicated to advocacy for outcome-based
education. This site contains articles, teacher resources, parent advocacy
groups as well as information on relevant United States legislation.
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This is a sub-page
of the US Department of Education. This short list of resources points
to US national goals for education
for the Year 2000. Links to legislation and other resources can be found
here.
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Education
World, a fantastic site that contains information about all aspects
of Education, has a fantastic curriculum center with links to lesson plans,
writing objectives, information on being a better teacher, and much more.
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From your text:
Chapter
8 - Behavioural and Social Learning Theories
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The Cambridge
Center for Behavioural Studies education website. This site is dedicated
to information and resources about behaviour analysis in education.
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This website,
maintained by Dr. R.G. Ellsworth from Chapman University, focuses exclusively
on providing Internet links on behaviourism.
Links on conditioning, biographies of Thorndike, Watson and Skinner and
other relevant sources are listed.
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A huge repository
of links and resources related to behavioursim from thepsych.com,
a website devoted to cataloging internet resources related to psychology.
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EdWeb
is available in many languages and provides a multitude of resources on
the Internet in education. It focuses on resource guides, the role of the
web in education and educational reform.
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A nice set of
annotated links about Computer-Assisted
Instruction published by LearnLink, a division of The Academy for Educational
Development in the United States. This list contains information about
CAI programs, educational technology related links, the integration of
meaningful technology in the classroom and much more.
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Produced by the
LearnWeb
Project Zero Resource from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard
University, this website is dedicated to providing an on-line networked
learning community for teachers to discuss education with new technologies.
Their "meeting hall" is a place for on-line discussions, and their "gallery"
is a place to explore examples of education with new technologies.
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An interesting
site dedicated to technology and
learning. They have an excellent section of learning theories, as well
as special attention paid to Bandura. They also have a discussion board
for questions, comments and clarifications.
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An excellent subsection
of the Educational
Psychology Interactive website, this page focuses on Bandura with some
nice graphical explanation of his work.
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From your text:
Chapter
9 - Information-Processing Theory
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An excellent website
on technologogy
integration. This site focuses specifically on cognitive information
processing and provides summaries, information on various authors as well
as useful internet links.
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The Learning
to Learn website from the University of Toronto provides an excellent
resource for memory, metacognition and other cognitive elements. Their
categories explain the concepts and provide interesting internet resources
to follow up on.
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This site is a
subsection of a course site from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
at the University of Toronto. This section focuses primarily on metaknowledge,
or the understanding of how to control your personal mental processes.
Links and relevant resources are included.
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Strategic
Learning is a private educational consultant corporation that trains
companies, educators and the public in its Three Apples method of strategic
learning. Its aim is to foster self-directed learning, originally created
by U.S. Department of Labour Secretaryís Commission on Achieving Necessary
Skills (SCANS) Report for the year 2000.
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From your text:
Chapter
10 - Cognitive Learning Theories and Problem Solving
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The Theory
into Practice Database was designed by Greg Kearsley, an independent
consultant in the United States. He has pooled together a phenomenal amount
of information related to cognitive theories with summaries of various
authors' models and other detailed instructional psychology resources.
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This site on Human
Cognition provides an excellent set of annotated links to other Internet
resources related to cognition, from memory theories to information processing.
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The Los
Angeles Open Charter School site from the US Department of Education.
This site describes a school founded in California based on Bruner's theories
of structure and discovery in education.
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The Center
for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale is
a source materials site for all information about John Dewey, the father
of experiential education. They have a fantastically large bibliography
about relevant Dewey material as well as recommended reading on experiential
education.
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University of
Colorado at Denver's School of Education site on constructivism.
Links to main theorists, Internet resources and related issues (such as
radical constructivism) can be found.
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Project Zero Resource
from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University created the
Active
Learning Practices for Schools (ALPS) as a website dedicated to promoting
active learning for children. This site provides tools and activities as
well as an on-line forum for discussion.
Chapter
11 - Motivation
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An overview
of attribution theory from the University of South Florida. This site
also contains an annotated bibliography on attribution theory.
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The main site
for Abraham Maslow Publications contains
a list of all Maslow's books, articles and other references relating to
his work in humanistic psychology.
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This site focuses
on existentialism
with a subsection on Abraham Maslow. It includes a large number of links
to other information on Maslow as well as a biographical summary and links
to existential psychology.
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From your text:
Chapter
12 - Assessment of Classroom Learning
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A site designed
by the Virtual Learning Center, this section on authentic
assessment provides a number of links to resources involving meaningful
learning and assessment as well as a few links to related articles on the
topic.
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The Alberta
Assessment Consortium focuses a site on both relevant assessment resources
as well as providing links to conferences and assessment materials for
teachers.
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This is an excellent
page of annoted Internet
resources on student assessment constructed by the FINE (First In the
Nation in Education) Foundation. It provides links on authentic assessment,
criterion and norm reference assessment, performance based assessment and
others.
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This is the website
for the National Center
for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing based at
the University of California at Los Angeles. This site provides newsletters,
reports, conference proceedings and presentations as well as information
for parents and other Internet resources.
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ERIC's
Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation website provides a wealth
of information involving assessment and evaluation on the Internet. Topics
such as evaluation demographics, action research, current trends in standardized
testing, Internet resources, test preparation and resources for parents.
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From your text:
Chapter
13 - Classroom Management
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An interesting
new web site that brings teachers,
students and parents together by using the Internet as a communications
medium for classroom management. A teachers can create a profile which
can allow them to manage their classrooms and allow students and parents
limited access to daily progress reports and class assignments.
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The Teacher
Time Saver website provides teachers with a number of excellent resources
for classroom management. This site provides original clip art, software
for download, teacher worksheets as well as relevant links to other useful
classroom management assistance sites.
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This tip page
on how to manage a classroom of children with Attention
Deficit Disorder is produced by the CHADD (http://www.chadd.org)
group. It provides 50 tips on how to manage your classroom with a child
with ADD. The Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder group has set up an excellent website on dealing with these difficulties
including Internet resources and much more.
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The Innovative
Classroom website has a section devoted to classroom management. Included
are organizational tips, suggestions and appropriate lesson plans for teachers.
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The classroom
management section of the Teachers Helping Teachers website contains
a number of specific suggestions and helpful hints on classroom management
from actual teachers in schools.
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From your text:
Chapter
14 - Becoming a Better Teacher by Becoming a Reflective Teacher
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An online tutorial
about reflective
practice, this website focuses on a number of Internet resources about
models of reflective practice and their application
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This on-line tutorial
designed by Tom Russell from the Faculty of Education at Queen's University
provides a large amount of information on reflective
practice for the teacher. Included are links to major research in reflective
practice as well as practical application.
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An excellent collaborative
Internet resource, TeachNet provides
teachers with a forum for new ideas and methods of stimulating new interest
in their classrooms. Links to creative projects and tips from actual teachers
are the main focus of the site.
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A website destined
by the Public Broadcast Company
for teachers. This site contains internet resources, information about
PBS shows on specific topics, as well as specific subject categories like
science, art and literature.
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The Best
Practice Resources website provides information about teacher-teacher
mentoring and many Internet resources related to improving teaching. This
site is a bit commercialized, but has some excellent resource links and
information.
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