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Laura Wood

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - 5 views

www.free.ed.gov

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  • History & Soc Studies
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      Okay so there isn't quite as much information on this site as I was hoping there would be. You CAN search by time period within the United States History. So if you're working through a US History text, this might be a great one stop shop to hit up and see what sorts of primary documents are available in a wealth of federal sites. For example, 1607-1763 has links to colonial documents from: the National Park Service; the Smithsonian; the National Endowment for the Humanities; History Matters; the National Archives, etc You can also search by US History topics (Government, Famous People, Wars, or Ethnic Groups . . . hmmm) or by World Studies. Each of these branch out into more subtopics. It's worth checking out.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      Haha. My new web browser hates Diigo. This is supposed to say "Animations" So the animations page is super science heavy. They do have a couple of links to global warming and environmental issues and a link to a Napolean Game where you can wage wars and see how well you do at Waterloo . . .
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      There are 135 Primary documents. I would recommend searching for these in a different way.
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      The video section is also worth checking out. 30 links to videos, some are about science but some are clips of Roosevelt or McKinley. Again, US History stuff. The only place I've found World History stuff is specifically under the Social Studies, World History links.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      This lists all of the topics contained on the site in each of the subheadings (Of particular interest: World History, US History, US Time Periods. Check it out!
  • Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
     
    FREE is a website pool of teaching and learning resources from various branches of the federal government. From the website: "More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly. . . . FREE is maintained by Peter Kickbush and Kirk Winters, Office of Communications and Outreach, with support from the Development Services Team in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Education."
  • Lindsay Andreas on 23 Oct 09
     
    This site is amazing, I was just playing around with it and I am definitely using some of the resources for my unit. :)
Kenneth O'Regan

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web - 2 views

historymatters.gmu.edu

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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      "contains 1,000 primary documents in text, image, and audio that emphasize the experiences of "ordinary" Americans throughout U.S. history. All of the documents have been screened by historians and are accompanied by annotations that address their larger historical significance and context. Browse a list of documents sorted by time period, beginning with the earliest. Or visit the Advanced Search to quickly locate documents by topic, time period, keyword, or type of document."
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      "helps students and teachers make effective use of primary sources. "Making Sense of Documents" provide detailed strategies for analyzing online primary materials (including film, music, numbers, photographs, advertisements, oral history, and letters and diaries) with interactive exercises and a guide to traditional and online sources. "Scholars in Action" segments show how scholars puzzle out the meaning of different kinds of primary sources (from cartoons to house inventories), allowing you to try to make sense of a document yourself and then providing audio clips in which leading scholars interpret the document and discuss strategies for overall analysis."
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      "is our annotated guide to more than 850 useful websites for teaching U.S. history and social studies. We have carefully selected and screened each site for quality and provide a 1-paragraph annotation that summarizes its content, its strengths and weaknesses, and its utility for teachers. Information is provided on the type of resource (text, images, audio, and video) available. Browse sites by topic and time period or look through a list of some of our favorite sites. Or visit the Advanced Search to quickly locate WWW.History sites by topic, time period, keyword, kind of primary source, or type of resource. We also include extended scholarly web reviews as a regular feature of History Matters. In collaboration with the Journal of American History (JAH) we review approximately 25 websites per year. The reviews are co-published by the JAH and History Matters and appear in both venues. The archive page offers all featured web reviews."
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      "Between 1997 and 2003, History Matters presented historical puzzles and quizzes. We are no longer adding new puzzles, but we include here an archive of 20 past puzzles that can be used in classrooms to inspire creative thinking and challenge assumptions."
  • more on this site)
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      This link has fantastic descriptions of what you can find in each of the sections of the site. I've posted some of the more exciting ones below but this site has a ton of useful history information . . .
  • Designed for high school and college teachers and students,
    • Kenneth O'Regan
      Kenneth O'Regan on 03 Oct 10
       
      I dont know how to undo or ignore the sticky notes of the previous user of this site...Ill post my own and I guess they will all just get mixed up.
  • Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
     
    From the website: History Matters is "a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Visible Knowledge Project. . . . Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence. We emphasize materials that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans and actively involve students in analyzing and interpreting evidence."
  • Kenneth O'Regan on 03 Oct 10
     
    Well, it looks like a student in this group shared this in the past, but what a great website! I'll put up some more sticky notes. This website features a large number of primary source material of different media and is strong in its content. Beyond that, this site features information about the methods historians use (interesting to high school students, applicable to college students), a database of reviewed websites, lesson plans, syllabi, and teaching tips. A pretty comprehensive resource.
Alan Edwards

D.C. Launches Rigorous Teacher Evaluation System - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2009093004729_pf.html

teacher evaluation DC Michelle Rhee

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    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 02 Oct 09
       
      Bill Turque's article in yesterday's Washington Post feels like a balanced view about a controversial plan. It definitely relates to some of the issues we've been chatting about in and out of our classes. These issues of teacher evaluation, standardized tests, teaching methods, and unions is important for anyone teaching in DC.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 02 Oct 09
       
      So this year, it appears that the folks downtown will be testing a new method of teacher evaluation based on five in-class evaluations and the teacher's students grades and test scores. The program will only apply to about 20% of the teachers in D.C.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 02 Oct 09
       
      DCPS will use a team of expert teachers to evaluate the teachers in 2 of the 5 evaluation sessions. They will look for active student engagement, diverse teaching methods, and teachers who work to create a safe learning environment for their students. I think that it's great that teachers will be a part of this evaluation process because great teachers have opportunities to give the best advice for these teachers. Moreover, the experts would have a degree of independence from the school's administration and union influence.
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  • Rhee is investing $4 million in the system, called IMPACT, which will also assess teachers against an elaborate new framework of requirements and guidelines that cover a range of factors, including classroom presence and how carefully they check for student understanding of the material. But IMPACT is likely to be another flash point in Rhee's turbulent relationship with local and national teachers union leaders. They say that growth statistics are too unreliable to include in performance evaluations and that the new assessment system -- which the District can legally impose without union consent -- is an instrument to identify and remove struggling teachers, not a means to help them improve.
  • This year only reading and math teachers in grades 4 through 8 -- fewer than 20 percent of the District's 3,800 classroom instructors -- will be evaluated on the basis of growth on the annual District of Columbia Comprehensive Assessment System, or DC-CAS. Student value-added will account for half of their evaluation.
  • To allay teacher concerns that assessments will be tainted by personality clashes with principals, IMPACT will employ a corps of third-party "master educators" to conduct two of the classroom observations. The District's old system, like those in most other cities, required fewer classroom visits and left them largely to school administrators, who often had neither the time nor the expertise in subject matter to render fair evaluations, educators say. The master educators, who do not report to the principals, have backgrounds in the teachers' subjects.
  • IMPACT documents suggest that no nuance will be left unexamined in the 30-minute classroom visits. Observers are expected to check every five minutes for the fraction of students paying attention. Teachers are supposed to show that they can tailor instruction to at least three "learning styles" (auditory, visual or tactile, for example). They can lower their scores by "using sarcasm that visibly hurts or decreases the comfort of one or more students." Among the ways instructors can demonstrate that they are instilling student belief in success is through "affirmation chants, poems and cheers."
Adrea Lawrence

Education Week: News and Information About Issues in Education for Educators - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...index.html

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  • Adrea Lawrence on 24 Jun 08
     
    Edweek.org is your one-stop-shop for all the latest news and information about the field of education. We cover local, state, and national news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade. Updated daily.
Laura Wood

Learning Matters - 0 views

learningmatters.tv

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  • Laura Wood on 28 Aug 09
     
    The Actual Home Page with links to the blog, podcasts, videos, interviews, latest news, etc.
Lindsay Andreas

BBC NEWS | Africa | Trail-blazing for Morocco's Berber speakers - 1 views

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shared by Lindsay Andreas on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • We studied the older texts that were passed down orally, but we are also writing new literature to reflect the current situation for Berbers in Morocco. It's really ground-breaking."
  • Although Berbers were Morocco's first inhabitants and account for some 60% of Morocco's population, they faced widespread discrimination and it is only now that the language is required to be taught in public school.
  • Their academic qualifications may not help them much on the jobs market, but the availability of a further degree in a subject that was once virtually outlawed in their North African country underscores Berber success in gaining official acceptance of the language.
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  • Although many Amazigh are illiterate, the government has put in place measures to assist schools to teach the written form of the language.
  • This written form is expected to have a unifying effect.
  • "My parents couldn't read a newspaper or understand the television because they were in Arabic," he says. "Now we have our own television channel and magazines in Berber. We feel much closer now to people in the Rif and Atlas Mountains."
  • "Most Moroccans grow up speaking Berber - why should they be at a disadvantage in having to use classical Arabic which is a foreign language whenever they brush up against bureaucracy?"
  • Lindsay Andreas on 07 Sep 09
     
    First, I love the Berbers. Second, this article serves as a great example of the issues that arise with language instruction. I think it is important to study comparative education, in order to help us see our own education system more clearly.
jbdrury

Exhibits In The Windows of 97 Orchard Street - 0 views

www.tenement.org/tenement-windows.html

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    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 06 Nov 09
       
      This tab gives you information on school tours if you can make it to NYC with a class; in addition, it has tabs for different interactive tours that are available centering on different historical families and their varying ethnic backgrounds.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 06 Nov 09
       
      This tab is incredible. It links to a number of online resources, including: lesson plans for different age levels, a wealth of primary documents dealing with immigration to the city and others.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 06 Nov 09
       
      The tours of these apartments are added to by the telling of the stories of the actual families that lived in these tenements, representing a good representative mix of the ethnicites immigrating to the U.S. at the time.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 06 Nov 09
       
      This is the link to the virtual online tour of one of their tenement exhibits. It gives you a virtual walk-through (using photos) of the tiny, cramped spaces that multiple families sometimes had to squeeze into in order to survive in turn-of-the-century NYC.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 06 Nov 09
       
      It includes an audio and video tour as well, taking you step-by-step as you move through the museum.
  • jbdrury on 06 Nov 09
     
    This is the official website of the Tenement Museum in NYC. I LOVE this museum, and if you have yet to have seen it, I highly recommend visiting the next time you are in the city. I have added this page mostly because of the "virtual tour" you can take of one of their tenements, which could be used as a resource for teachers who cannot take students there in person. They also have a number of primary document lesson plans available for different age ranges. Their exhibits are revealing of the lives led by immigrants in late 19th and early 20th century New York City.
jbdrury

Suit looming against California over school funding - San Jose Mercury News - 1 views

www.mercurynews.com/...ci_13517231

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  • California spends $35.7 billion, or about 30 percent of its budget, on its 10,000 public K-12 schools
  • California has trailed national per-pupil spending since 1979, and now the gap is $1,700 per student
  • Since 1979, cases have been brought in about 30 other states. But while 14 resulted in court-ordered funding increases, cases decided in the past four years have tended to favor the states
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    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 14 Nov 09
       
      I may be wrong, and I don't know how feasible it is, but it would seem to me a better solution would be to redistribute property tax revenue, as opposed to putting burdens on the state government to come up with additional funding for the educational system.
  • But Michael Rebell, executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity, which successfully sued to win more money for New York City schools, said that achievement has improved dramatically, especially among minority and low-income students, after lawsuits in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Vermont.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 14 Nov 09
       
      This is an important point; the very size of California's population and economy has always made it a key influence on national trends.
  • Without reform, Hanushek said, because the state is so big — it educates one of every eight children in the nation — and because its schools perform so poorly, "California is dragging down the nation
  • jbdrury on 14 Nov 09
     
    As those of you in my EDU 522 class know, we have spent quite a while on the issue of unequal school funding. The Kozol video we watched in class raised the question of how each state pays for its public schooling, and as a result I have been trying to determine which states still use local property taxes (thus perpetuating the inequality of schools within the state) and which have instituted reforms to equalize funding. The problem is, none of this information is compiled in a concise manner. This is a recent article discussing this issue; I am still trying to find others.
Joellen Kriss

Education chief calls for teacher prep overhaul - Yahoo! News - 1 views

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  • The Obama administration is calling for an overhaul of college programs that prepare teachers, saying they are cash cows that do a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the classroom.
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 01 Nov 09
       
      Anre Duncan scores in my book once again! He's getting his information from young TEACHERS who've gone through teacher schools!
  • Duncan said he has talked to hundreds of great young teachers while serving as Chicago schools chief and later as President Barack Obama's schools chief. The teachers have two complaints about education schools, he said.
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  • most of them say they did not get the hands-on teacher training about managing the classroom that they needed, especially for high-needs students
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 01 Nov 09
       
      These are both interesting points. I think the AU program does a lot to give you hands-on training but the second point, is true. We get told a lot about the data and everything, but never really what it means to us and what we can do with it.
  • second, they say there were not taught how to use data to improve instruction and boost student learning
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 01 Nov 09
       
      Teacher schools make money, but the money they make is spent on different areas of the college...interesting.
  • Their large enrollment and low overhead makes education schools cash cows for their universities
  • profits have been diverted to smaller, more prestigious graduate departments such as physics and have not been spent on research and training for would-be teachers
  • most states and school districts don't link the performance of teachers to their education schools to identify which programs prepare their teachers and which don't
  • administration is using stimulus dollars to reward states that tie student achievement data to the education schools where their teachers had credentials
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 01 Nov 09
       
      We might get jobs after all everyone!!
  • A third of veteran teachers and principals are Baby Boomers who are poised to retire, which could create a milllion new teaching positions in the next four years, according to the Department of Education.
  • Joellen Kriss on 01 Nov 09
     
    This article is about a speech Arne Duncan gave about the reevaluation of teacher programs in the country. Every time I read something else he's said or written, I like Arne Duncan more. He knows his stuff from a practical standpoint and goes where it matters to get his information: right to teachers and students. This article is small but pretty interesting.
Debbie Moore

New Deal Network - 2 views

newdeal.feri.org

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  • Debbie Moore on 20 Nov 09
     
    The New Deal Network is a site that I am using in preparing my curricular unit. The site has an archive with documents such as the Fire Side Chats with President F. Roosevelt, photographs, and audio tapes. I like this site because it really takes you to that place in time so that you can see and hear what was going on in the culture as well as in the government. The site also has lesson plans and resource links for educators.
  • Debbie Moore on 20 Nov 09
     
    Alan, that is so funny I just posted and noticed that you too had posted this site. It's great, don't you think? I am actually using a Fire Side Chat from FDR for one of my socratic seminars in my curricular unit. There is also a lesson plan about arts and the depression that I am going to adapt for the unit.
Sarah Franquemont

Newseum | For Students NOT Visiting the Newseum - 2 views

www.newseum.org/...index.html

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shared by Sarah Franquemont on 04 Oct 10 - No Cached
    • Sarah Franquemont
      Sarah Franquemont on 04 Oct 10
       
      Some of these lesson plans require students to have internet access either in the classroom or at home.
    • Sarah Franquemont
      Sarah Franquemont on 04 Oct 10
       
      There is a focus on national news and US history, so this site might not be useful for teaching world history or news.
  • Sarah Franquemont on 04 Oct 10
     
    The Newseum site provides lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school teachers.  The lessons focus on first amendment rights and the role of media in society.  Links to other online resources allow teachers to find supplemental materials for other lesson plans and units. The site also contains a number of primary sources.
Walter Antoniotti

http://www.textbooksfree.org/Building%20America's%20Democratic%20Federalist%20Republic.htm - 0 views

Building America's Democratic Federalist Republic 1. The Early Colonial Period 1619 Began Representative Democracy and Slavery Freedom of Religion Began in 1636 All Immigrates Welcomed By 1654 Ne...

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Jennifer Carey

Making Magnificent Maps - 0 views

indianajen.com/...making-magnificent-maps

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  • Jennifer Carey on 20 Oct 13
     
    Using the new google maps engine
Alan Edwards

Children and Youth in History - 0 views

chnm.gmu.edu/cyh

children primary sources world history

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    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 02 Oct 09
       
      This site is maintained by George Mason University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. GMU does a lot of work with new media through their Center for History and New Media
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 02 Oct 09
       
      This site dedicated to the agency and involvement of children in history. The focus is international with a collection of primary sources organized by regions of the world.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 02 Oct 09
       
      In addition to primary sources from around the world, the site also contains a collection of case studies and teaching lesson plans/curricular units. They also include a section of helpful sites related to Children's History.
Margit Nahra

Picturing U.S. History, Reviews - 0 views

picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/news.php

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    • Margit Nahra
      Margit Nahra on 01 Sep 10
       
      Reviews section useful to teachers for keeping informed about new quality source materials.
mslanak

One World Education - 0 views

oneworldeducation.org/index.php

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  • mslanak on 25 Mar 09
     
    Personal stories aka Primary sources from middle and high school students who have visited various countries or experienced new cultures.
Nate Merrill

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood - 0 views

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  • Nate Merrill on 16 May 11
     
    CCFC is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups, parents, and individuals who care about children. A project of Third Sector New England in Boston, CCFC is the only national organization devoted to limiting the impact of commercial culture on children.
James Leslie

TCI Launches Ground-Breaking, Online Technology for Social Studies Teachers and Their S... - 0 views

www.earthtimes.org/...online-technology,969252.shtml

social studies teaching technology

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  • TCI, a leading publisher of innovative K-12 social studies curriculum, recently launched TeachTCI and LearnTCI, online instructional technologies for teachers and students.
  • When teachers sign in to their TeachTCI account online, they have access to all the resources found in TCI's print materials, plus links to lesson-specific discussion groups that facilitate professional exchange, an assessment creator, and a Classroom Presenter tool that translates the printed lesson guide into a visual format that enables teachers to lead dynamic classroom activities.
  • "TeachTCI turns the countless hours I would usually spend on lesson planning and activity development into a one-stop, shopping-like experience for everything I need for class. The fact that it is online makes it easy for me access these resources from any computer and allows me to work as easily from home as from school," said Steve Innamarato, a social studies teacher at Central High School in Philadelphia.
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  • Making the content of both TeachTCI and LearnTCI web-based was a strategic decision by TCI. "We can ensure that our content remains cutting-edge," said TCI's founder and CEO, Bert Bower. "With print publishing, we weren't able to make updates as often because of long printing cycles. Updating digital content is a snap. Another advantage is that teachers can prepare and plan lessons from anywhere, and students can interact with their text at home, from the library, or anywhere they can get online."
  • James Leslie on 25 Sep 09
     
    This web site has information on an online teaching resource for teachers. The program allows teachers and students to work from anywhere via the internet.
Maria Mahon

Teaching Cops to See | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

www.smithsonianmag.com/...Teaching-Cops-to-See.html

shared by Maria Mahon on 23 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Suspecting that some of the cops were first-timers to the Met, she tried to ease the pressure. "Remember," she said, "there are no judgments and no wrong answers."
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 23 Sep 09
       
      As we talked about in class, making students feel comfortable to start exploring works of art is a crucial step if teachers are going to use them in their lessons. In much the same vein, Herman had to make sure the policemen felt comfortable in this new environment and did not feel inhibited from sharing their ideas or observations just because it was a new medium.
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