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- PBL and EFF:

• PBL (Project Based Learning): www.geocities.com/sgaer/pbl

• EFF (Equipped For the Future) Web page: http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/eff/

• The Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy has released a new publication, titled Equipped for the Future (EFF): Tools & Standards for Building & Assessing Quality Adult Literacy Programs.This publication reviews the developmental history of EFF and discusses its accomplishments, implementation, and work in progress. The document can be downloaded from the CAAL website at http://www.caalusa.org

• Targeted for k-12 but has great ideas on PBL and multimedia in the classroom: http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/index.html

• PBL and checklists: http://www.4teachers.org/projectbased/

• A great example of PBL complete with illustrations produced by students, life stories, writings on prejudice, racism, family etc. http://www210.pair.com/udticg/lessonplans/mango_street/s_work2.htm

• Study Skills Web site www.ccsf.org/Services/Learning_Assistance/lernsites.shtml

• Email Projects Web site (Look at the class/school visits that took place last spring or in the previous year or two for good examples of school/community Web sites designed by students and their teachers together.): http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/email.htm

• Each day, more than 5,000 kids try their first cigarette. Help bring these numbers down. Teachers play an important role in empowering students to be tobacco-free. Click here (http://www.educationworld.com/go/base?id=TKB) to request a free Kick Butts Day Activity Guide.

• Science Alliance. Students use science to create a superhero! http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2001/r1201-18.shtml

• Buck Institute for Education: http://www.bie.org/pbl/

• Contextual Learning Resources: http://www.cord.org/lev2.cfm/65

• Inquiry Maps & Considering the Source: http://www2.wgbh.org/mbcweis/IMaps.html

-ABE/GED, ESL, and Literacy:

• Online GED Practice Tests: http://www.testprepreview.com

• Plans and resources: www.csun.edu./~hcedu013/eslplans.html

• ALM is a math research with many interesting articles in their publications-ie-gender and Numeracy. http://www.alm-online.org/Newsletters/ALM-Newsletter.htm

• Check the NIFL Lincs Science and Numeracy Special Collection. There are on-line resources for both teachers and students. http://literacynet.org/sciencelincs/

• The Numeracy List is archived on the NIFL LINCS system (www.nifl.gov/lincs) and the Math Forum http://forum.swarthmore.edu/ To read the Numeracy archives on NIFL LINCS go to: http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/numeracy/numeracy.html

• Teacher support pages for the Math Forum's Problems of the Week (PoWs) were written during the 2002-2003 school year to provide resources for teachers who used the problems with their students. Each page includes resources from Ask Dr. Math, Teacher2Teacher, Teacher Exchange, and an alignment to NCTM Standards for these PoWs: http://mathforum.org/pow/support

• Investigating Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellations. This is a meta site of Web resources for grades five through eight math by author and consultant Jill Britton. http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2002/r0102-04.shtml

• Phone Book Math Did the phone company just deliver new phone books to your door? Don't throw out the old ones -- ask students to bring them to school. Those old phone books offer opportunities for lots of valuable math practice; they're a great teaching tool! http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson270.shtml

• (Math)Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plan: Doughnut Race http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/02-1/lesson035.shtml

• Check out this web site. Lesson Plans, pre-tests, Information: Everything! http://www.nwlincs.org/NWLINCSWEB/gedclass.htm

• The new GED 2002 curriculum Web site is offering 4 online professional development modules covering the three literacy strands: math, writing and critical thinking/graphics. The site also has an orientation/overview module to get you started. The modules are all free. http://www.ket.org/GED2002 to participate in the online training. To login: http://www.adultedteachers.org

• A range of online tutorials on computer literacy for ABE/intermediate ESOL learners that will not only prepare them to use the Internet but move them to use word processing in as short a time as possible. Mouse tutorials http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/mouse/page1.html

• Lesson Planning: Martin Luther King Jr. Teaches Many Lessons http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson248.shtml

• Literacy Center. Early literacy activities for young children. http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2001/r1201-17.shtml

• Resource materials from the Association for Adult Literacy Professional Developer's COABE session titled, "What is the Role of Professional Development in 'Evidence-Based Practice'?" are now available online at: http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-aalpd/aalpd.html

• Kristina Pfaff's Linguistic Funland: http://www.tesol.net/

• National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE): http://www.cal.org/ncle/

• National Institute for Literacy ESL Online Discussion: http://novel.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-esl/english_second_language.html

• Dave's ESL Cave: http://www.eslcafe.com/

• ESL Website with components, lessons and materials that could work for both ESL and ABE/GED students. http://www.fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried

• Writing Bug: Yesterday Was a Special Day http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/writing_bug/writingbug014.shtml

• Stories for ESL Students. These stories include reading comprehension interactive activities http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/stories/stories.html

• A lesson on slang http://www.manythings.org/slang

• Engaging Latino Parents in Improving School Climate & Student Achievment. http://www.buildassets.org/products/latinoparentreport/latinoparentrept.htm

• Virginia's Foundation Blocks for Early Learning. The building blocks provide guidance to early childhood instructors who prepare children for success in kindergarten. This document will be useful for those involved in family literacy activities. http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/Elem_M/FoundationBlocks.pdf

 

- Civics Education

• U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: www.eeoc.gov

• (ESOL) The Civic Participation and Citizenship Collection has developed a wonderful site for Citizenship Preparation that lists links and describes many sites that help teachers prepare learners to take the citizenship interview, fill out applications, and understand the entire citizenship process. http://www.nelrc.org/cpcc/prep.htm

• The mission of the Change Agent is to provide, in the form of a low cost newspaper, news, issues, ideas, and other teaching resources that inspire and enable adult educators and learners to make civic participation and social justice concerns part of their teaching and learning. http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent.

• Scavenger Hunt: Civil Rights Movement. What do your students know about the civil rights movement? http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/hunt/hunt017.shtml

• Classroom Resources, Student Assessment Rubric, Web Sites About Congres: http://www.congresslink.org/resources4teach.html

• C-Span in the Classroom: http://www.c-span.org/classroom/

• Legislative Branches Internet Resources: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/legbranch/legbranch.html

• Congressional Sources on the Internet: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/congress.html

• House of Representatives: http://www.house.gov/

• United States Senate: http://www.senate.gov/

• Civil Rights Museum: http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

- Language Arts Standards and SCANS:

• The Thinking and Reasoning Standards: www.mcrel.org

• SCANS: What skills will prepare our youth to participate in the modern workplace? What skill levels do entry-level jobs require? http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed339749.html

- Instructional Strategies:

• Scaffolds: http://www.calstat.org/integrated.htm#Scaffolded

• Graphic Organizers: http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6293.html

• Teaching Literacy to ESL students (including choral reading & LEA) Eric Digest: Teaching Low-Level Adult ESL Learners: http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/HOLT.htm

• Writing Process: http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej18/m2.html http://www.gmu.edu/departments/english/composition/faculty/teachprocess.htm http://willow.cats.ohiou.edu/~otesol/newsletterfiles/missingartf01.htm

- Technology and Resources :

• New software technology to improve literacy in English. The software can be downloaded from the web, thus helping the delivery of new degree programs. It's called WordAloud, see www.wordaloud.co.uk

• Harnessing Technology to Serve Adult Literacy is a great website for the ABE instructor who wants to integrate technology (lesson plans, technology ideas, question, and solutions). http://www.alri.org/harness.html

• Looking for visual learning tools for your learners? Inspiration Software, Inc. develops visual thinking tools that allow learners to create mind maps, webs, and other visual representations that can be easily transferred into written outlines. .A 30-day trial is available at www.inspiration.com

• Video for classroom use. http://maxi.colorado.edu/cat/wwl805.htx

• BasicWindows tutorials (such as minize windows etc.) http://www.muc.edu/CIS/HelpDesk/tutorial/win95tut.htm

• Word CVOC- need to be taught interface, could be "experiential" in that learner can use processor at the same time. http://isds.bus.lsu.edu/cvoc/learn/introit/msoffice97/msointro/index.htm

• Using the Internet (as opposed to learning about) http://www.dclibrary.org/dclearns http://www.learnthenet.com/english/web/000www.htm

• Electronic Portfolios in the K-12 Classroom. Learn what electronic portfolios are and discover how they can help you and benefit your students. http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech111.shtml

- Educational Research

• "The Evaluation Exchange" from the Harvard Family Research Project explores key dimensions of education reform, including standards-based reform, technology in education, The project addresses links among education policy, practice, and evaluation and how research and evaluation can inform policy and practice. Find it at: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/eval/issue22/qanda.htm

• "The Effect of Classroom Practice on Student Achievement" is a research brief authored by Harold Wenglisky of the Educational Testing Service that supports the contention that schools, and specifically teachers, rather than student background characteristics (e.g., race, parental education, income) exert the biggest impact on learning. Find the brief at: http://www.ascd.org/publications/researchbrief/volume1/v1n11.html

- Distance Learning

• The Independent Study High School of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers a fully accredited self-paced curriculum option offering high school courses in a diploma and non-diploma program. The site contains over 160 total courses in more than 15 subjects. http://www.unl.edu/ishs

• The Online Training Institute provides training in many varied areas, including the five GED test areas. Courses are self-paced and self-guided, but teachers are available for consultation. http://www.oltraining.com

• Distance Education Clearinghouse is a terrific place to begin your inquiries into distance learning. The site is easy to navigate and contains information that is useful for all experience levels. It will be valuable to any practitioner who wants to learn more about distance education. It can be accessed at http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html

• Expanding Access to Adult Literacy with Online Distance Education is an occasional paper published by the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy. It examines the potential of online learning to meet the educational needs of adult learners and identifies a number of issues central to making distance education succeed in adult education. Download (free) at http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu/research/occas.htm

 

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