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Effective Teaching Strategies( instruction methods for improving education ) |
ACTIVE LEARNING — STRATEGIES & THEORIES asks, "How can theories of active learning (constructivism, inquiry, meaningful reception,...) be used in effective teaching strategies that promote effective learning?" You can Browse the Education Standards in 30 areas, including 4 in Life Skills! (plus links for purpose, history, process, and more) Standards-Based Accountability in Education, as in No Child Left Behind, with the goal of Ensuring Quality, is examined in reports by Bryan Goodwin (with links to more at bottom of page) and (in abstract & full text) Laura Lefkowits & Sheila Arens and Susan Biemesderfer; these questions are explored by PBS in The Challenge of Standards and were the the focus of A National Dialogue on Standards-Based Education; an overview (of claims, criticisms, and more) is in Wikipedia. Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) — hint: use their Thesaurus and (at top of page) Search ERIC using Advanced Search. Regional Educational Laboratories — with Publications from 10 labs in the U.S. |
Quotations about Education — in collections that are small ( 1 2 ) and large ( 3 but with some "retrieval failures") New Horizons for Learning offers plenty of high-quality "effective teaching" resources you can explore! ACSD shares excellent articles from Educational Leadership and offers useful summaries of Education Topics and more. Education for Problem Solving & Thinking Skills (using Design Method & Scientific Method) and Aesop's Activities for Goal-Directed Education by Craig Rusbult, plus Metacognition: An Overview by Jennifer Livingston Glossary of Instructional Strategies Effective Schooling for At-Risk Students Trends in Education Reform & Ed-Web by Andy Carvin Tips for Teaching (many links to interesting, useful ideas) |
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You can also explore pages with links plus overview-summaries: for
the combining of CREATIVITY and CRITICAL
THINKING into PROBLEM
SOLVING in the area of Thinking
Skills; and in School
Options you can see a range of perspectives on RELIGION
IN PUBLIC
EDUCATION. Also, HOME
SCHOOLS is similar to this "effective teaching" page because, although
it has no overview-summaries, it does have links to lots of
information that could be useful for all teachers and learners, not just
homeschoolers.
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This website for Whole-Person Education has TWO KINDS OF LINKS:
an ITALICIZED LINK keeps you inside a page, moving you to
another part of it, and
a NON-ITALICIZED LINK opens another page. Both keep everything inside this window,
so your browser's BACK-button will always take you back to where you were.
This links-page for Effective Teaching
Strategies & Methods (assembled
by Craig Rusbult) is
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/teach/methods.htm
All links on this page were checked-and-fixed on January 8, 2011.