SOCIAL SCIENCE 110: INTRO TO EDUCATION

Why Teach? What Makes A Good Teacher?

• Good Teaching: The Top Ten Requirements by Richard LeBlanc
• Forty Successes

Who Are Our Students?

• California Students (CSUS)
• California Educational Demographics; California Dept of Education
• California Academic Performance Index
• USA- National Education Statistics; US Census
• http://nces.ed.gov/; National Center for Education Statistics
• International Education Statistics; United Nations
• International Education Statistics; OECD
• International Comparisons (cool site regarding upgrading US standards)

Learning Processes

• How We Learn
• Learning Theories; Thinkquest.com
• Learning Domains
• Piaget's Theories
• Piaget's Importance to Education

Learning Modalities

• Definitions; Thinkquest.com
• Learning Styles
• Kids Learn Languages
• Types of Intelligence
• Does Multimedia serve more learning styles?
• PBS: Learning Modalities
• Info center for Learning Styles - great source!
• Hokey Pokey and many other nursery rhymes
• Hokey Pokey Emu
• Hokey Pokey Activities
• Hokey Pokey Dance !!
• chicken dance! Whooho!!
• more chicken dance

Objectives 

• Bloom's Taxonomy: Net Objectives
• http://www.evansnewton.com/eniold/
• Bloom's Taxonomy
• Bloom's Taxonomy-
• http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/bloom.html
• Bloom's Taxonomy re Learning Domains **
• Levels of Bloom's Taxonomy

Classroom Management

• Classroom Management *
• Strategies for Classroom Management
• Classroom Management *
• Schoolwide and Classroom Discipline
• Rules for Making Rules
• What is your classroom management profile?
• Classroom Management Concepts
• Schoolwide and Classroom Discipline
• http://www.youthchg.com/Problem Kid Problem Solver
• http://www.honorlevel.com/Honor Level System of Discipline
• http://www.empoweringpeople.com/ Positive Discipline
• http://www.fredjones.com/; Fred Jones Discipline System
• http://www.justforteachers.co.uk/ Just for Teachers 
• Emotionally Intelligent Classroom Management

Motivation Strategies

• http://www.dailybite.com/ Daily Review Activities for Motivation
• http://www.middleweb.com/StdntMotv.html Middle School Motivation
• Univ. of Hawaii; General Principles of Motivation

Lesson Plans

• How to write a good lesson plan (www.askeric.org) *
• www.askeric.org
• www.lessonplanspage.com
• www.learningpage.com
• http://www.lessonplansearch.com/
• http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/education (Art)
• http://school.aol.com/teachers/lesson_plans/index.adp
• http://educate.si.edu/lp/lp_fs.html Smithsonian!

Teaching Pedagogies

What is a teaching pedagogy?

• Pedagogy on Bilingualism
• Freirean Pedagogy
• Jazz Pedagogies
• Liberational  Pedagogy (a Thesis at Humboult State)
• Picciotto's Math Page (website and pedagogy)
• Thornberg Center; pedagogy on technologies in the classroom
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• U.S. Dept of Education; Gateway search for education materials
• http://www.ed.gov/ U.S. Dept of Education (great resource!)

Collaborative Learning/Cooperative Learning

• Collaborative Learning 
• Learning Through Collaborative Visualization
• Museum Learning Through Collaborative Education
• Center for Collaborative Education
• Collaborative Education Archive (lesson plans)
• Collaborative Research in Science
• Epals; Collaborative Education Around the World

Portfolios

• Portfolios; U.S. Dept of Education
• Focused Portfolios; Ages 0-5
• Use of Portfolios in Assessment
• Portfolio Assessment for ESL
• Portfolios; San Diego K-12 results
• Portfolios for Teaching English
• Portfolios for Elementary and Early Childhood Education

Learner Centered Education

• Child Centered Education

• Learner Centered Education Psychology at Stanford

• Christie's Page; Critique of Learner Centered Education

• Learner Centered Projects

• Learning Centered Approach to Social Studies

School to Career

• California Governor's School to Career Task Force
• http://www.swep.com/main.html Company Facilitating School to Career
• California Regiona School to Career
• Stanislaus County School to Career
• Ventura County School to Career

Thematic Units

• Thematic Units for Teaching ESL
• Thematic unit for Weather
• Thematic Unit for Tuskegee
• http://www.innovativeclassroom.com/Thematic Unit Lesson Plans
• http://teachertimesavers.com/ Thematic Teaching Units
• http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/ A-Z thematic units
• Thematic Unit on Chinese Americans

Manipulatives

• touchphonics-Manipulatives for Teaching Reading
• Manipulatives for Math and Science
• Philosophy on Manipulatives

Directed Dialogue/Socratic Dialogue

• Directed Dialogue for teaching English
• socratic dialogue
• Silent Socratic Dialogue
• What is Socratic Dialogue
• Socratic Dialogue page
• Effective Techniques of Questioning

Writing Across the Curriculum

• Critical Thinking (writing)
• Writing Across the Curriculum-national conference 2001
• http://www.marshall.edu/wac/ Writing Across the Curriculum
• Language! K-12
• National Warehouse for WAC materials
• WAC history
• WAC programs
• wac2002/National conference
• Lewiston K-12 
• Resources on WAC
• Preventing Failure
• http://www.daedalus.com/(writing in the classroom)

Culturally Diverse Classroom

• Diversity and Complexity in the Classsroom by Barbara Gross Davis
• Culturally Effective Communication
• Considerations on Teaching Culturally Diverse students
• Effective Practices with Culturally Diverse Populations
• Teachers Preparation for Culturally Diverse classrooms
• http://ericec.org/digests/e584.html Strategies for teaching Culturally Diverse Students

Schools with Teaching Credential Programs

• California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (mulitple subject)
• California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
• Cal Teach http://www.calteach.com/hpaindex.cfm

Money for Educators

• U.S. Dept of Education; Federal Assistance