Professional Links
Professional Links |
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| Assessment | Hot Topics in Education | Lesson Plans and Resources |
| Professional Development | School Improvement | Standards |
| Technology Integration | Wilkes Classes |
| Alphabet Super Highway | A knowledge resource for schools of the 21st century. |
| American Psychological Association (APA) Format | Examples of the updated APA 5th ed. citation styles brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab. Additional examples for citing electronic resources are available at http://www.apastyle.org. |
| Awesome Library | Enter a door for Teachers, Kids, Teens, Parents, Librarians or Community to access reviewed resources including the top 5% in education. |
| Citation Style Guides | From Ohio State University Libraries. Includes APA, CBE (Science), Chicago, MLA, and Turabian formats. |
| Colonial IU 20 | Register for professional development workshops through CPETracker. |
| Dr. Hotlist | A comprehensive guide to Web technologies and online resources that are transforming education and K-12 schools from District Administration, the magazine for K-12 administrators. |
| Education World® | Designed to help educators integrate the Internet into the classroom. Features a search engine for educational Web sites only, as well as original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts. |
| Educator's Reference Desk | Access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. Also provides an interface to search the ERIC database. |
| EduHound.com | A highly specialized educational directory with built-in resource links offered free to educators, students and parents. |
| Electronic Journals in the Field of Education | Links to electronic journals that are scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost. |
| goENC.com | K-12 math and science teacher center |
| ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) | World’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. Effective October 1, more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free. Starting December 2004 ERIC will begin adding journal and non-journal literature published in 2004 to the database. |
| eThemes | An extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes for educators. |
| Free Resources For Teachers | Dedicated to searching out and retrieving those sites that offer free and almost free stuff for educators to use in the K-12 classroom, and to providing links to curriculum specific resources found on the web. |
| Kathie Nunley's Layered Curriculum | Based on current brain-imaging information, Layered CurriculumTM is a student-centered teaching method. The 3 layer model encourages complex thinking and holds students highly accountable for their learning. |
| Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators | A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning. |
| MarcoPolo | Standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom. |
| MarcoPolo in PA | MarcoPolo Lesson Plans Aligned to the PA Academic Standards |
| New Teacher.com | Clearinghouse for information about helping new teachers founded by Harry Wong. |
| Pennsylvania Department of Education | Education reform initiatives, school profiles, teacher certification and anything else you need to know about education in the commonwealth. |
| Pennsylvania School Boards Association | Information on advocacy, legislation, issues, current events, and school law. |
| PDE Virtual Resources | A portal of standards-based resources for students, teachers, parents, and administrators. |
| Pitsco's Resources for Educators | A directory of links to professional associations, curricula, staff development, lesson plans and more. |
| PVSD Professional Textbook Library Collection Form | Complete this form to verify textbook availability in the district professional collection for graduate courses. |
| Scholastic Professional Resources | An index of thousands of web sites for teachers in all subjects K-8. Includes information on classroom management, assessment, technology integration and more. |
| School Law | Includes a selected list of links to Law, Pennsylvania Law, Education, Professional Associations and Library sites. |
| Search ERIC | Search the full ERIC database from 1966 to the present in an easy-to-use interface. Includes the ERIC Thesaurus, a "more like this" option, and the ERIC Wizard to help you can build search querie. |
| Survival Guide for New Teachers | Online book from the U.S. Department of Education which focuses on "How New Teachers Can Work Effectively with Veteran Teachers, Parents, Principals, and Teacher Educators. " |
| Teachers.Net | Teaching resource site including curricular links, lesson plans and Harry Wong's monthly column for effective teaching. |
| U.S. Department of Education | Includes initiatives and priorities; grant opportunities; offices; publications; research and statistics. |
| Web Sites for Teaching and Learning | Based on articles from District Administration by Odvard Egil Dyrli |
| What Works Clearinghouse | U.S. Department of Education's initiative to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education. |
| Wilkes University | Graduate Teacher Education Page |
| Wilkes University Online Library Service | For remote access to online subscription databases, use your Wilkes email username and password. |
| ASCD Education Topics | Short multimedia lessons on topics that interest all levels of educators. Each lesson includes a definition, short articles on the topic, audio and video files of experts and practitioners, and a listing of resources. |
| Associations for Educators | Web links collected by Pitsco Innovative Education. |
| Current Issues in Education | Peer-reviewed scholarly electronic journal published by the College of Education at Arizona State University. |
| Ed.Net Briefs | Weekly newsletter containing a compilation of summaries of important or interesting education news stories, including the complete source citation. Site includes a searchable archive. |
| Edweek.org | Covers local, state, and national educational news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade. |
| The Eighth Floor | A collaborative effort of educational institutions in Tulsa County. |
| ERIC Expert Search Strategies | These are sample search strategies on hot topics developed by some of the country's best reference librarians. |
| No Child Left Behind | Find information and support material for the new education law signed by President Bush on Jan. 8, 2002. |
| Pathways to School Improvement | Research-based information on school improvement. Topics include Assessment; At-Risk; Curriculum; Early Childhood; Goals and Standards; Governance; Instruction; Integrated Services; Leadership; Learning; Literacy; Math; Parent and Family Involvement; Pre-service Education; Professional Development; Safe and Drug-Free; School-to-Work; Science; Technology. |
| Public Education Network | Public Education Network (PEN) is a national association working to advance public school reform in low-income communities across our country. |
| Assessing Student Work | Rubrics to assess research skills from the National Teacher Enhancement Project. |
| Assessment Rubrics | A collection of assessment links selected by Kathy Schrock. |
| Authentic Assessment in Mathematics | Resources on Authentic Mathematical Assessment applicable to Secondary Schools from the Geometry Forum at Swarthmore. |
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| Buros: Test Reviews Online | Contains reviews for over 4,000 commercially available tests. |
| ETS Test Collection | Extensive library of 20,000 tests and other measurement devices from the early 1900s to the present. Contains information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers. |
| Item Response Theory | Contains the complete text of Frank Baker's, The Basics of Item Response Theory, explaining the basic concepts of the theory. |
| Measurement Decision Theory | This tutorial provides an overview of measurement decision theory. Key concepts are presented and illustrated using a binary classification (pass/fail) test and a sample three-item test. |
| Online Resources for Assessment | Collected by the STAR Center of Texas. |
| Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (PARE) | An on-line journal containing refereed articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practice. |
| Study Guide Zone | Free study guides for students and educators on a variety of standardized tests commonly utilized for admissions, licensing, and educational assessment. |
| Net Web Tutorials | An extensive list of tutorial links selected by Gail Junion-Metz. |
| Online Professional Education Network (OPEN) | Provides online professional education programs at no charge to Pennsylvania educators. |
| Special Education Project | Special Education Project at Penn State provides information about effective instruction of students with special education needs. Important concepts are illustrated with video examples from real classrooms demonstrating teaching and learning. |
| Tapped In | Educators can extend their professional growth beyond courses or workshops with the online tools, resources, colleagues, and support they need to implement effective, classroom-centered learning activities. |
| ALPS, Active Learning Practice for Schools | An electronic community dedicated to the improvement and advancement of educational instruction and practice. |
| Catalog of School Reform Models | Prepared by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) |
| NCES K-12 Practitioners' Circle | Makes your search for education statistics fast, easy and productive with this site geared for teachers, librarians, administrators, policymakers and parents. |
| North Central Regional Educational Laboratory | Specializing in the educational applications of technology, NCREL provides research-based resources and assistance to school communities. |
| Partnership for 21st Century Skills | The leading advocacy organization infusing 21st century skills into education. |
| American Memory Lesson Plans | Lesson plans utilizing primary sources arranged by Themes,Topics, Disciplines or Eras |
| Archive.edu | An Archive of Sharable Education Resources on the Web |
| The Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan Collection | Browse by subject or search the collection of 2000 unique lesson plans submitted by teachers from all over the US and the world. |
| Blue Web'n | Searchable database of over 1200 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). |
| Digital Curriculum | A curriculum video-on-demand system that integrates full length videos, key concept video clips, still images, teacher guides, lesson plans, and interactive online assessments and assignments. Includes 800 videos, 8,000 clips, and 4,500 |
| Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) | High quality educational materials, including lesson plans, activities, and projects. |
| New York Times Learning Network | Offers a myriad of innovative, interactive activities for grades 3-12 based on today's New York Times. |
| TEACHkind | Resources for animal humanity and violence prevention. |
| Teacher Links | An extensive list of links selected by Gail Junion-Metz. Includes teacher resources, lesson plans, special education, tutorials, Internet projects, and parent and family links. |
| TeacherVision.com | Graphic organizers, lesson plans, maps, assessment, and more. |
| Teachwithmovies.org | Make 190 popular films into educational tools! |
| United Streaming | Video download and streaming system that instantly delivers over 2000 educational core-curriculum digital videos and over 20,000 clips. Includes teacher guides and black line masters as well as still images. |
| ARTSEDGE: Curricula, Lessons and Activities | Standards-based resources arranged by subject area for integrating the arts into classroom teaching. |
| Assessment Anchors | PDE Assessment Anchors and tools to help educators integrate the anchors into daily teaching. |
| Developing Educational Standards | Standards by state and subject area. Includes many links to other education documents. |
| Information Literacy Standards | The Nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning |
| National Educational Technology Standards forStudents (ISTE) | Standards for the effective use of information technology in education. The Profiles for Technology Literate Students provide performance indicators describing the technology competence students should exhibit Pre-K to 12th grade. |
| Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) | Content standards, lesson plans, and other educational resources. |
| Missouri Show-Me Standards | Academic standards that incorporate and strongly promote active, hands-on learning |
| The National Center on Education and the Economy | Policies, tools, and assistance for implementing standards-based education. |
| National Curriculum Standards | Links to sites that provide answers to important questions on curriculum standards. |
| PBS TeacherSource | TeacherSource correlates Language Arts, History, Math, and Social Studies lessons to more than 90 sets of national and state curriculum standards. |
| Apple Learning Exchange | Links to content area sites for elementary, middle school and high school teachers. |
| Classrooms for the Future | PDE initiative to ensure there are laptops in public high school English, math, science and social studies classrooms across Pennsylvania. |
| Digital Disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools | The Pew study of the attitudes and behaviors of Internet-using public middle and high school students across the U.S. |
| The Ed-Tekker | Blog devoted to educational technology. |
| Elluminate | Manager site for logging into live and recorded webinars. |
| eSchoolBuilder | IU 20's eLearning Instructional Portal |
| Filamentality | A fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into learning activities. |
| Global SchoolNet | The best in online collaborative learning projects. Includes professional development resources and communication tools. |
| INTEGRATE | IU 20's quarterly publication highlighting exemplary instructional technologies. |
| Integrated Studies of Educational Technology (ISET) | From the Office of Educational Technology—U.S. Department of Education |
| Internet Projects from Judi Harris | Sample Curriculum-Based K-12 Educational Telecomputing Projects. |
| Knowledge Network Explorer | Pacific Bell's site featuring WebQuests, Resources, Lessons, Blue Web'n, Filamentality and more. |
| Library of Congress Learning Page | Activities, lessons, and research tools for utilizing primary source materials from the American Memory Collection. |
| netTrekker d.i. | Register for an individual account and link to PDE Training Resources for this academic search engine to educator-selected web sites. |
| OzLine | Working the Web for education: online learning strategies. |
| PDE Webinars | Live web conferencing and eLearning environment in real time. |
| Wikis | |
| Blogs |
| Wilkes 518 | School Law |
| Wilkes 526 |
Telecommunications for the 21st Century |
| Wilkes 598 | Special Topics: Information Literacy |