1. Go to CRITICAL ISSUES :CREATING HIGH ACHIEVING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
a. Click on Maria Patterson, principal of Hollinger Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona and hear her discuss the importance of high teacher expectations in a classroom.b. Click on Henry Gradillas, principal of Garfield High School in Los Angeles, California and hear him describe the effects of a challenging curriculum at his school.
2. Go to USING TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVEMENT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
a. Click on Diana Porter, program facilitator at the High School for the Teaching Professions in Cincinnati, Ohio and hear her discusses how technology can broaden learning by enabling students to find, analyze, categorize, manipulate, and communicate data in complex tasks.b. Click on Charles Terrett, superintendent of Fulton County Schools in Hickman, Kentucky and hear him talk about the capacity of technology to address learning goals by promoting new skills and enabling students to solve real-world problems.
3. Go to MULTIPLE
INTELLIGENCES.
Find one activity for each of the multiple intelligences:Linguistic: __________________________________________________
Visual Spatial: ______________________________________________
Musical: ___________________________________________________
Body - Kinesthetic: __________________________________________
Math Logic Problem Solving: _________________________________
Interpersonal: ______________________________________________
Intrapersonal: ______________________________________________
Naturalistic: _______________________________________________
4. Go to E-THEMES.
a. Go to your grade level and find one theme that you teach and print it out.
b. What is the name of the theme that you selected? ____________________________________
5. Go to MAPPING THE BIG PICTURE.
a. Read # 1 The Need for Calendar-Based Curriculum Mapping.
b. Who wrote the article? ________________________________________________
c. What did the author base her mapping on? ________________________________
6. Go to SOUTH DAKOTA EDWEB.
a. Click About the SD EDWeb to learn why and how it was created.
b. Click on Search by Standard and choose a topic in Subject, Grade, Goal, Indicator, and
Standard.
c. Name one site that you found? _____________________________a. Click on Search by Goal and choose a topic in Subject, Grade, and Goal.
b. Name one site that you found. _____________________________________a. Click on Administrative Resources and choose a topic and click search.
b. What topic did you choose? _______________________________________a. Click on Thematic Webpages and preview some of the themes listed.
b. Name two themes that you previewed. ___________________________________________a. Click on Students on the SD EDWeb and do a Student Search in the grade level you teach.
b. What topic did you search? ______________________________________
7. Go to EDUCATION REFORM: WHAT WORKS FOR DISTRICTS.
On the second page under Key Findings, find and list the four primary activities that researchers found that facilitated the reform process at the district level.1. __________________________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________________________
4. __________________________________________________________________________
8. Go to the SOUTH DAKOTA CONTENT STANDARDS SITE.
Click on the subject you teach and view the standards for that area.
9. Go to the MCRELL - COMPENDIUM OF STANDARDS AND BENCHMARKS SITE.
Click on Browse the Standards and preview the standards for your area of teaching.
10. Go to EDUCATION RESOURCES ON THE WWW and go to your area of teaching.
(This site is very large so loads slowly!)a. Preview at least 10 sites in your area of teaching.
b. Name one site that you found useful? _____________________________________________
11. Go to BRAINPOP and click on a movie that you would like to preview.
Which movie did you preview? _____________________________________________
12. When young students are doing Internet searches they should be using children's search engines.
a. Go to CHILDREN'S SEARCH ENGINES.
b. Click on Yahooligans.
c. In the search box type Space Station.
d. How many sites did it find? _____________
e. If you did the same search in Google, you would find 1,890,000 sites.
f. Try other Children's search engines and see how many sites you find.
13. Go to RUBISTAR.
a. Read "What is RubiStar?".
b. Scroll to the bottom of the page to CHOOSE A CUSTOMIZABLE RUBRIC BELOW.
c. Find your subject area and click on a rubric topic under it that you could use.
d. Fill in Teacher Name, Project Name, Category Names, and select a category for at least
four categories.
e. Click on MAKE A PRINTABLE RUBRIC and print out the rubric.
14. Go to TRACKSTAR.
a. Under FIND A TRACK choose THEMES AND STANDARDS.
b. Click on a subject area.
c. Choose a Theme on the left and click on it.
d. Click on the title of a track you with to view.
e. Click VIEW IN FRAMES.
f. Click on the sites under LIST OF SITES to preview the information for lessons.a. Go back to TrackStar.
b. Under FIND A TRACK choose KEYWORD.
c. Type in a topic from your area of teaching in the search box.
d. Click on your grade level and click GO.
e. Click on a title of a track you wish to view.
f. Click VIEW IN FRAMES.
g. Click the list of sites on the left to preview the material for your topic.
15. Go to WEBQUEST MATRIX OF EXAMPLES.
a. Choose your grade level.
b. Find two WebQuests in your area of teaching and print them out.
16. Go to HARCOURT MATH GLOSSARY
If the Glossary does not come up, type in http://www.hbschool.com/glossary/math/glossary4.htmlClick on a grade level and then click on several math terms to learn the definition.
17. Go to HARCOURT SCIENCE GLOSSARY.
Click on a grade level and then click on several math terms to learn the definition.
18. Go to MY LOOPED EXPERIENCE.
a. Read "Just What Is Looping?"
b. Give a definition for looping. ________________________________________________
c. Under PLANNING what was one challenge the teacher said she had as she prepared to teach a looped class? ___________________________________________________________________
19. You need a picture for a PowerPoint presentation or a newsletter and you don't know where to look.
a. Go to DITTO.COM and search for three pictures by typing in the topic.
b. Go to GOOGLE.COM and click on IMAGES. Search for three pictures by typing in a topic.
20. Go to EDHELPER.
Under categories click on your subject area. Preview the materials available for your area of teaching.
21. Go to INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY INTO THE CURRICULUM.
Click on your subject area and preview some of the sites.
22. Go to AWESOME SITES and preview the sites on the list. Most of them can be used in Education.
23. Go to PETERSON HOME PAGE and preview some of the sites in your area of teaching.