Bronx Early College Academy

 NYS Resource Guides are documents focusing on curriculum essentials, student learning experiences, and sample assessment models. These guides were developed to go hand in hand with the Learning Standards manuals. Resource Guides go beyond the Learning Standards manual by helping teachers find additional support for their planning.

Video that introduces the concept of text complexity. Needed for Reading standard 10

Good site for information on reading and writing assessments

Considering using this as a selection in ToK

This is right in line with the IBLP

The application of such research-based strategies to homework is a yet-untapped opportunity to raise student achievement. Science has shown us how to turn homework into a potent catalyst for learning. Our assignment now is to make it happen.

This would make a great ToK trip for students

A review of research relating to the IB Diploma Programme

Links to past issues of the IB Research Notes

Video from Teacher's College on the levels of reading.  She goes through different lenses for interpretation.

Video:  A good primer on CCLS for math and literacy.  All NYC based.

Good teacher website has excellent resoures.

The time has come to move the nation forward in its pursuit of high quality science education for all. In a process managed by Achieve, Inc., 20 states are leading the development of rigorous and internationally benchmarked science standards that will define the content and practices all students will need to learn from kindergarten through high school graduation. These Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) will undergo multiple reviews, including two public drafts. A first draft of the standards is expected in early 2012, with a final version expected in late 2012. NSTA is providing advice to the project and engaging the science education community in the feedback process. New science standards will be based on the recently released Framework for K-12 Science Education that offers a new vision for K-12 education in science and engineering and representing a significant shift in how these subjects are viewed and taught.

Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Best Research-based Teaching Practices

The National Science Education Standards mandate that science teachers "plan an inquiry-based program", "focus and support inquiries", and "encourage and model the skills of scientific inquiry." Inquiry is an approach to teaching that involves a process of exploring the natural world, that leads to asking questions and making discoveries in the search of new understandings. Inquiry is a method of approaching problems that is used by professional scientists but is helpful to anyone who scientifically addresses matters encountered in everyday life. Inquiry is based on the formation of hypotheses and theories and on the collection of relevant evidence. There is no set order to the steps involved in inquiry, but children need to use logic to devise their research questions, analyze their data, and make predictions. When using the inquiry methods of investigation, children learn that authorities can be wrong and that any question is reasonable.

Welcome to Concept to Classroom! We've got a new look with the same great workshops. The site features a series of FREE, self-paced workshops covering a wide variety of hot topics in education. Some of the workshops are based in theory, some are based in methodology - but all of the workshops include plenty of tips and strategies for making classrooms work. Access the workshops in the menu below or visit the About the Series section to learn how you can apply these workshops toward professional development credit.

Welcome to Inquiry-based Learning. Start here in the "Explanation" section, which is all about the CONCEPT. Then go on to "Demonstration" and the following sections, where we move from CONCEPT TO CLASSROOM!