Links for Educational Professionals

Ideal Classroom

List of resources that are recomended by teachers to be availble to every student at school and home. Some will include directions to make your own, or made by a high school shop class or willing retired craftsman.

 

Link to Forums

ESF FORUMS: Forums for discussion among professionals. Participate in an on-going discussion, or start your own.
Link to Adult Resources Link to Adult Reaources
  Adult Resourses: Links to parent and teacher resouces on our site and others. Useful in classrooms, family room, and homeschool.
Link to ESF Education Division
ESF EDUCATION DIVISION: Link to Education Information and resources for parents and teachers in regular and special education
Link to Cross Culture project
CROSS CULTURE: Links to people, websites, resouces and other information on this project to identify needs and resouces for disabled students and adults in many countries and cultures.
SPECIAL EDUCATION: Resources of interest to teachers and parents of special needs students.
' Link to Assessment

ASSESSMENT: Resources for assessing students that include understanding the WISC test, informal assessments for learning styles, practice tests for standards, and more.

Link to Electronic Portfolios and Web Tools
ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIOS AND WEB TOOLS: is a collection of 21st century approachs to assessment that combines projects with assessment to compare the student's progress to previous performance and peer performance.
Link to Curriculum index
CURRICULUM: Links to the Virginia Standards of Learning.
Interactive Lessons

Interactive Lessons: Multi-media sample lessons

Link to Lessons index

Lessons: Plans for lessons and units

Link to Web Courses
COURSES: Check out the online courses as they become available. Find a course for your homeschooler, students, or create your own on our site.
Link to Direct Access Reading Technique
DIRECT ACCESS READING TECHNIQUE: Links to descriptions, papers, and materials to use the Direct Access Reading Technique.
Link to Learning Styles index
LEARNING STYLES: Links to descriptions, papers and resources to determine and accommodate various student learning styles.
Link to Web Host index
WEB HOST: Links to sites built by students, affiliated schools and special features of our site. Includes information on how you can create your own space on our site.
Link to Print index
PRINT: Link to printable learning resources for parents and teachers.
Link to Kinder-Write index
KINDER-WRITE: Link to study by Bob Rose on the effect that writing the alphabet in Kindergarten has on developing reading skills
Differentiating Instruction Differentiating Instruction how-tos for inclusion and mainstreaming.
  Bad Wolf Press Musical Skits with curricular objectives.
Link to Ghana Project
GHANA: Link to two projects in northern region village in Ghana to help the students with education for the 21st Century.
INDIA: Link to Curriculum/Lessons Plans under development for a school for the blind in India.
Link to SOL index
SOL-STANDARDS OF LEARNING: Link to Virginia Standards of Learning objectives for K-12 in the major subjects areas.
SKY-HI: Link to our own developing curriculum objectives for K-12.
Link to Research index
RESEARCH: Links to resources for student and professional research.
Periodic Table of Vizualization Strategies
Detailed presentation of the many ways that visualization strategies can be used in the classroom and beyond.
Don Potter Website Educational website in many subjects including beginning reading and the learning of ancient languages
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
Recently updated, this is an excellent reference for developing student skills in technology.
The Power of One
Greg Mortenson on Edutopia: The Power of One: Video Presentation (Education in Pakistan)
Differentiated Instruction
Meeting student needs child by child

 


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Page created April 25, 2009. Anne Pemberton. Updated Mon, December 20, 2010 10:25 . AP.