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Great resources for teaching and learning.  "We strive to empower instructors by helping them develop a deep understanding of how students learn, so that they can effectively apply and adapt teaching strategies to meet their own goals and their students' needs.  The purpose of the following materials is to present current research and theory on student learning in a way that can inform and guide effective teaching practices."

"This section provides a document on teaching portfolios (pdf) - including a description of their common structure and recommendations for specific artifacts to include as evidence of effective teaching - and information on our program for graduate students that helps them document their teaching experience at Carnegie Mellon."

Good article - although not as good as the ones posted by Sean.

May be useful for math classes...

iPad in Education -Evaluating Apps for the Classroom

A Google Sheet filled with apps and descriptions of how they support the taxonomical levels.

2008 multitasking study. From the conclusion: "Our results suggest that interruptions lead people to change not only work rhythms but also strategies and mental states. Another possibility is that interruptions do in fact lengthen the time to perform a task but that this extra time only occurs directly after the interruption when reorienting back to the task, and it can be compensated for by a faster and more stressful working style."

The Figural TTCT: Thinking Creatively with Pictures is appropriate at all levels, kindergarten through adult. It uses three picture-based exercises to assess five mental characteristics: · fluency · resistance to premature closure · elaboration · abstractness of titles · originality

A slick interactive map of learning objectives according to Anderson/Krathwohl's revision of Bloom's taxonomy.

Interactive animation of Bloom"s revised taxonomies

A slick interactive map of learning objectives according to Anderson/Krathwohl's revision of Bloom's taxonomy.

Lots of examples of rubrics, both holistic and analytic.

Great comparison of Bloom's original taxonomy to Anderson/Krathwohl's 2000 revision.