The Study Guides and Strategies Website is an educational public service helping learners to succeed.

 The purpose of the Learning Toolbox website is to help students with learning difficulties to become more effective learners so that they can meet the increasingly rigorous academic demands of today's schools. The Learning Toolbox is designed for use by three groups:

(1.) Secondary students with learning difficulties

(2.) Teachers of middle and secondary level
students

(3.) Parents of students with learning difficulties.

 Teaching Today is a Web site from the Glencoe/ McGraw-Hill Secondary division. It is designed to meet the needs of teachers from all disciplines by leveraging the extensive resources and expertise available from all of Glencoe's secondary subject areas. Teaching Today launched in Fall of 2000 and was renovated in the Fall of 2007.

 The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, conducted by Harris Interactive (formerly Louis Harris and Associates, Inc.) each year since 1984, explores teachers' opinions and brings them to the attention of the American public and policymakers. In fact, many projects in education supported by MetLife Foundation are developed based on the survey's findings.

 The Governing Board is an independent, bipartisan group whose members include governors, state legislators, local and state school officials, educators, business representatives, and members of the general public. Congress created the 26-member Governing Board in 1988 to set policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) -- commonly known as the "The Nation's Report Card."

 Education standards from the British Government

  TechSETS is administered by San Diego County Office of Education, in partnership with the Imperial County Office of Education, under contract with the California Department of Education.

The Cooperative Learning (CL) Network is an association of colleagues at Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning who model, share, support, and advocate for the use of cooperative learning. The goals of the CL Network are to:

• advocate for the educational benefits of CL
• encourage the initiative of a coordinated plan to implement CL through college programs
• maintain the current CL Network activities through shared leadership
• mentor each other and seek outside expertise

Context - How will I be?  Where am I coming from?
Purpose - What is my single overall goal?
Results - What do I want to occur as a result?

Audience - Who is my audience  (for marketing, this is studied in great depth)
Purpose -  What is my purpose for this communication?  (What do I want to achieve?)
Use  -  How will the audience use this information?  (Why are they reading it?)

1. Preparation
2. Incubation
3. Illumination  (the "light bulb")
4.Verification

 The National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI) is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing school districts with a solid training program and approach for the implementation of DI in districts, schools and classrooms.

 Problem-Based Learning Network @ IMSA

 Inquiry is a dynamic approach to learning that involves exploring the world, asking questions, making discoveries, and rigorously testing those discoveries in the search for new understanding. However, inquiry is a tough concept to pin down. It is complex, multifaceted, and looks different in different classrooms and contexts. The Inquiry Learning Forum community is focused on better understanding inquiry by both working to support student inquiry and also helping teachers inquire into their own teaching practice so that they can become better teachers.

 Problem-based learning (PBL) is an educational approach that organizes curriculum and instruction around carefully crafted ill-structured" problems. Students gather and apply knowledge from multiple disciplines in their quest for solutions. Guided by teachers acting as cognitive coaches, they develop critical thinking, problem solving, and collaborative skills as they identify problems, formulate hypotheses, conduct data searches, perform experiments, formulate solutions and determine the best "fit of solutions to the conditions of the problem. Problem-based learning enables students to embrace complexity, find relevance and joy in their learning, and enhance their capacity for creative and responsible real-world problem-solving.

 Constructivism is a theory of knowledge with roots in philosophy, psychology and cybernetics. Such is the definition provided by constructivist's leading theorist, E. von Glasersfeld (1989). How does this theory of knowledge translate into practice? How do definitions of what it means to "construct knowledge" inform our actions as educators?

 The What Works Clearinghouse was established in 2002 by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education.

  Welcome to the official web site of the
jigsaw classroom, a cooperative learning technique that reduces racial conflict among school children, promotes better learning, improves student motivation, and increases enjoyment of the learning experience.

 Great Classroom Management provides teachers the blueprint for creating the best learning environment possible.

 We understand that the biggest issue many teachers face is effective discipline and classroom management. These resources will put great strategies at your fingertips!

 At NWREL, we work to make a difference in students' lives and those who support their learning. As a private nonprofit, we measure our progress in the success of teachers and learners who put our research and training to work.

 Basically, constructivism views that knowledge is not 'about' the world, but rather 'constitutive' of the world (Sherman, 1995). Knowledge is not a fixed object, it is constructed by an individual through her own experience of that object.

 Groupings are used in the heterogeneous classrooms to accomplish different instructional goals such as discovery, discourse, communication, and practice.

 From the National Academies

 Jean Piaget was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on August 9, 1896.  His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature with an interest in local history.

 The web portal which we call i4c is free to anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in their classroom instruction.

 The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) was founded in 1991 as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools. Since that time, we have been documenting, disseminating, and advocating for exemplary programs in K-12 public schools to help these practices spread nationwide.

 The American Educational Research Association (AERA), founded in 1916, is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and, by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.

 Helping Teachers Succeed

Canter & Associates, a subsidiary of Laureate Online Education, Inc., is committed to serving the educational community with high-quality, practical graduate curricula.

Canter began with one groundbreaking guide on managing behavior in the classroom and, more than 30 years later, has grown to offer a selection of innovative distance-learning resources for shaping teacher professional development. Canter has helped more than 2 million educators enhance their expertise with practical strategies designed for teachers by teachers.

 For over 30 years Dr. Jones has studied highly successful teachers - the "naturals" - to see how they make success look easy. During that time he has conducted extensive research and constant experimentation in classrooms. His objective has been to perfect methods of classroom management that are both powerful and affordable for the teacher. Successful teaching is neither "magic" nor is it a collection of handy hints - the proverbial "bag of tricks." Rather, successful teaching is built around a handful of core competencies that are expressed in everything the teacher does. Once mastered, they bring rapid relief from teacher exhaustion for one simple reason:

Responsible students who have learned to manage themselves
require much less management from the teacher.

 Discipline with Dignity

is one of the most widely practiced behavior classroom management philosophies in the world.  Founded by Dr. Richard Curwin and Dr. Allen Mendler, the program is now utilized in more than 12 different countries.

The focus of our founders continues to be the focus of our organization.   We will provide the best staff development training to your school, district, or organization.  We will provide proven strategies that teachers, administrators, and service providers will be able to implement the day after our workshop.

  The information on this site offers suggestions for basic Classroom Discipline strategies.