Sir Patrick Geddes, 1854 - 1932, A Scottish Genius, Ballater, Royal Deeside, Sco Known as the father of town planning, he developed the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, advanced ideas for the renovation of old housing and the planning and building of new homes, and advocated using the Camera Obscura as a teaching medium. (Book Cities in evolution An introduction to the Town Planning movement and the Studies of Civics.) http://www.ballaterscotland.com/geddes/
Extractions: Scotland This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.
Meet Me & My Class: Jennifer Chandler: Teaching Ideas For Grades 6-8 Find lesson plans and great ideas for fresh approaches for teaching. While my core area of instruction is language arts, I always profess that I teach http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/grades68teacher2004_2005.htm
Extractions: After growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, I attended Furman University in South Carolina to extend my training in music and earn my degree in education. After graduation, I moved to Columbia, South Carolina and spent my first two years teaching in a small, rural elementary school in Gadsden, South Carolina. Through experience teaching all subject areas, I learned that my passion resides with language arts. So, I moved to a new district to teach this subject in the brand new magnet program in a middle school setting. Because of my background in the elementary level, I believe one of my strengths is transitioning students from an elementary setting to a more sophisticated middle school level. During my first six years of teaching, I have taught grades two through seven in some capacity. I have recently been declared a National Board Certified Teacher and am currently working on my Masters of Education with a focus on middle level literacy. I've recently accepted the position of Language Arts Department Chair at my school, and I'm even coaching soccer this year! Columbia, South Carolina, is a diverse city with many different school districts. My school is in Richland School District Two, near Fort Jackson, one of the largest army bases in the country. Because of our large army population, our school attendance district-wide can be transient. We must also provide a quality education for children living in disadvantaged areas as well as those living in affluent neighborhoods of Columbia. Our school has a population of about 1,200 students. Fifty-six percent of our students are African American, 38% Caucasian, 3% Asian, 3% Hispanic, and 0.4% are American Indian. About 40% of our students take part in our free or reduced lunch plan. We have an award-winning PTO and a competent faculty in our learning-centered school. We truly are one big family.
Shelley's Home Page Specializes in algebra and geometry at the University of Maryland. Includes class notes, articles about teaching ideas in the field, online homework help and hobbies. http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~swalsh/
StatHomePage This site contains a variety of pages related to the teaching of parametric and nonparametric statistics. It includes examples, content, lecture notes, and ideas on teaching. http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/StatHomePage.html
Extractions: Statistical Home Page David C. Howell T his is a Home Page containing statistical material that I hope will be of interest to faculty and students. It is intended to go with my texts ( Statistical Methods for Psychology and Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences ), but it will be useful to others not using those books. I continue to work on it, and keep adding new material. Data Files Glossary Searching these Pages with Examples ... Psychology at Vermon t New material not in book Web sites for Fundamentals bookJames Casebolt Fair Use Randomization and Bootstrapping ... Vita The above links point to: Data sets from my books and other sources. Additional examples. Helpful (I hope) ideas that enlarge on or explain material in each chapter, along with some more examples. New material on topics that I was not able to cover in the Methods book. A glossary for the Fundamentals book. Lists of typographical errors that others have found. Pointers to other people's home pages and archives of statistical discussion groups that might be useful. A web site put together by James Casebolt at Ohio University Eastern. This is a terrific aid to those who tire of typing in web addresses, and contains more up-to-date links than any text can. I thank Dr. Casebolt for his efforts.
Finance Site List Web links for those interested in understanding and teaching financial ideas. http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/fin/journal/jofsites.htm
Extractions: Index Finance Journals Institutional Working Paper Sites Personal Working Paper Sites The Finance Profession ... isc Finance Site List These web links are placed here for those interested in understanding and teaching financial ideas. Contact Robyn Scholl with the Charles A. Dice Center if you'd like your site to be listed here. Please, be sure to provide your full http address and the section heading (s) where you would like to be listed. Finance Journals A - E
Math Wizard Ebook gives some ideas on alternative approaches to teaching and learning math. Page includes table of contents. Requires a purchase. http://home.earthlink.net/~susankennison/mathwizard/
Extractions: Math Wizard Home More on Math Wiz Seminar For Teachers ... Links Is Your Child Or Student Struggling With Math? You know she's bright. What's the problem? You see he's miserable and frustrated. He spends hours on homework but his math grades are terrible. Tutoring or special schools are expensive...and will they really get to the heart of the problem or just get him through this course? The Tough Road Ahead If you can't find a solution, you know the results. Her unhappiness now is only a shadow of future problems. Limited college selections, fewer career paths. Worst of all, that ugly, secret of feeling of "not smart enough". Here's Your Solution You can turn this around 180 degrees with Math Wiz. Math Wiz is a teaching power-tool in your hands. Rather than teaching tricks for solving individual math problems, Math Wiz addresses the fundamental causes of math-blocks. These blocks are real and they are easy to correct! Imagine your child or student suddenly: Math Wiz teaches: The sources of math-block How to dynamite those blocks out of existence!
Extractions: Choose an Author Abbey Adams Alfred Au Baker Bamford Barton Baruth Beers Berg Brown Carr Cheek Coiro Cockrill Coombs Corliss Correia Costa Cusack Dale D'Eon Duffy Ellison Farr Faust Fitzgerald Fowler Francis Freedman Gantt Garmston Gibson Glanz Glasgow Glazer Graves Green Greenwood Hales Hamm Harmin Hancock Harp Harris Hawes Hayes Haylock Heide Hickman Hill Hogan Hogue Huefner Hunter Isserstedt Jalongo Holly Johnson Nancy Johnson Kamil Kassenoff Kasten Kaywell Kiernan Kimmelman King Koch Kristo Kroeze Kupetz LaBrecque Lauer LeTendre Leu Lipka Lolli Love MacLaury Mallow Manning Marshall McHenry McIntyre McLaughlin Mead Meeks Meinbach Meisgeier Moen Moore Morrell Moss Francis Murphy Sandra Murphy Oczkus Pajak Patterson Patty Pressley Pugalee Purves Raphael Rickards Roe Samuels Schlick Noe Shoemaker Sinatra Siu-Runyan Smith Stephens Stice Strickland Takeneshi Thomason Tierney Tomei Torreano Townsend Trumbull Underwood Van Horn Walters Weir Wellman Wilcox Williams Willis Wittreich Choose a Subject Assessment and Instruction At Risk Bill Harp Professional Teacher's Library Children's Literature Cultural Diversity Education Law General Education Middle Level Professional Self-Development Supervision and School Improvement Teaching Literature "Hurt Books" Home What's New About Us Contact Information ... Mailing List Patricia M. Gantt and Lynn Langer Meeks
NZATE Aims to promote the teaching of English at all levels of the education system and beyond, and to unite all members in a common purpose and to act as a forum where all teachers of English can share ideas and experience. http://www.nzate.co.nz/
Poetry Teachers - Poetry Class How to teach poetry in the classroom. Lots of ideas for educators on teaching poetry in fun and interesting ways. http://www.poetryteachers.com/poetclass/poetclass.html
Extractions: policy Poetry Class Have you ever wondered how to get your students excited about poetry? Try teaching with humorous poetry! Here are some great lesson plans and tips on how to teach funny poetry in your classroom. In addition, Meadowbrook Press has an entire web site dedicated to humorous children's verse: Giggle Poetry . Check it out for the best in funny poetry, great artwork, free poetry contests for kids, and more. Finally, be sure to look at our best-selling line of humorous children's poetry anthologies below. These books are sure-fire kid pleasers. Performing Poetry in Class Performing Poetry: A Study Guide for Teachers by Kathy Norris. Everything a teacher needs to know about performing poetry in front of a class. Get Your Students Excited about Poetry How to Get Your Students Excited about Poetry by Bruce Lansky. Don't just read poetry to your students; get them excited about poetry!
Extractions: SUMMER SONG by Susan Rowan Masters Grade Level: 5-8 Teaching Ideas Summer Song appeals to a wide audience of young readers, many who may be facing difficult issues themselves. Because the plot deals realistically about a fractured family and a teen's struggle for control, students can better grasp what Etta May herself finally comes to understand: while we cannot control life, we can affect parts of it. Bits of humor lighten what could be a heavy tone as it asks readers to think about family, separation, and loss. Thematic Links Friendship Ask students to describe Etta May and Quentin's friendship. Etta May calls him her best friend. What are the qualities in Quentin that she says, "made me forget the rough edges?" Both of their mothers have left for different reasons. How might this strengthen their friendship? At first Etta May doesn't trust her neighbor Mrs. Moreles who she thinks is a snoop. How and when does her attitude change? Family Ask students to describe the relationship between Etta May and Gent, and Etta May and her mother Claire. Ask how Etta May deals with the feelings she has for Claire, bringing in during the discussion the word "ambivalence." At what point in the story does Etta May finally gain a sense that the three of them are truly a family? How does this affect what she does next?
IHE | Publications | Innovative Higher Education Journal devoted to presenting descriptions and evaluations of innovations and provocative new ideas in higher education, and their effect on teaching and students (online abstracts). http://www.uga.edu/ihe/ihe.html
Extractions: By Susan Rowan Masters Teaching Ideas Libby Bloom is a humorous beginning chapter book that keeps the reader smiling, even through the serious parts. Among the thought provoking themes students will explore are family, friendship, activism and self-confidence . This guide offers a variety of interdisciplinary tie-ins. Thematic Links Friendship Ask students to name the qualities they look for in a friend (i.e. similar interests, willingness to share, loyalty, a good listener, etc.) Afterward, have the students find examples of where Libby and Ralphs friendship have the same qualities they have listed. Discuss this statement: In order to have a friend, you must first be a friend. Family
Association Of Science Teachers Goals are to improve teaching of science by increasing members' knowledge and understanding, act as a clearing house for ideas, make recommendations to the Provincial Executive. http://ast.ednet.ns.ca/
Art History Online Teaching Resources: WWW Virtual Library The WWW Virtual Library for the History of art links to art history sites of general interest, but focuses mainly on academic and scholarly sites, http://www.chart.ac.uk/vlib/teaching.html
Extractions: The World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Art A Drawing Glossary from Harvard University Art Museums (written by Edward Saywell) American Art - Course taught by Bart De Palma, offered online by Foothill College, California Analysis of Visual Images Art theory and history methodology applied to images. The Art History Browser - Pippin Michelli's excellent teaching resource Art History: A Preliminary Handbook: A Beginner's Guide to the Undergraduate Essay Art History for Kids and Gardner's Art Through the Ages : Resources for Students Glaadh : Globalising Art, Architecture and Design History - resources, activities and examples of good practice to help embed cultural divesity in the curriculum The Open University Guide to the Renaissance - a study guide which places the Renaissance in its economic and political context and explains more about the people, ideas and methods at its heart Piero Project at Princeton University (includes a new WWW version The Regency Town House Heritage Centre, Brighton
NCETC 2003 The NCETC program and exhibits showcase the best practices and products, the brightest ideas and the most innovative teaching tips and techniques in educational technology for every level and for all areas of learning. http://www.ncetc.org/
Visual Arts Online Seminar 1 Connecticut DisciplineSpecific Visual arts teaching Standards I. Knowledge of Visual arts art teachers research and respond knowledgeably to art forms http://www.state.ct.us/sde/dtl/t-a/best/seminarseries/online_seminars/art/1/stan
Extractions: Discipline-Based Professional Teaching Standards for for Teachers of Visual Art I. Knowledge of Visual Arts: Art teachers research and respond knowledgeably to art forms, artists, and works from diverse historical and contemporary cultures. Key domains of knowledge include: II. Art-Making: Art teachers convey meaning through skillful art-making in a variety of media.Key domains of knowledge include: a high level of technique and expressiveness in at least one visual medium; and appropriate technique and processes in a variety of visual media, including:
Educational Poster Teaching Ideas Did they give a convincing portrayal of their characters and the ideas and attitudes With the teacher acting as auctioneer, auction each artwork on the http://www.speedmuseum.org/educational_poster.html
Rhonda Gowler Greene - Children's Book Author (Official site) Provides short biography, school visit information, teaching ideas, book reviews, and publishing tips. http://www.msu.edu/user/greenem2/
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