New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 10
How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Graphs of Linear Models of Direct Variation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will write, graph, and solve direct variation models for real-world problems. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, study vocabulary, watch...
Other
Writing Instructions Sample: How to Raise Potatoes
A good example of a piece of writing which instructs the reader. Good for students to use as a model for instruction-writing essays.
Other
Best Evidence Encyclopedia: K 12 Comprehensive School Reform
Research analysis of the overall effects of 29 widely implemented models of comprehensive school reform, or CSR. Models include direct instruction, accelerated schools, montessori, and America's Choice programs.
Other
E Learning Developers' Journal: What Is Personalized Learning [Pdf]
This article takes on the complex issues of designing personalized learning strategies for web learning instruction and environments. What do students do when teachers are not there to provide motivation, direction, goal setting and...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Blending [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to blend words as a classroom modeling strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for blending; games and activities are also provided to reinforcement the concept of blending.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesta Duluth: Experiential Learning Theory [Pdf]
This researched resource provides a holistic view of experiential learning theory. The document includes previous research and new directions of this instructional model. The document is used in a University of Minnesota education...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Developing Reading Fluency
How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Order Among Chaos
This lesson plan is designed to assist learners not only in using the order of operations, but also experimenting with how grouping and ordering affects answers. In groups as teams, the students will compete while finding algebraic...