Following are web sites included in Teaching Strategies, 7^th edition—either within the chapter, or in the Internet Resources section at the end of each chapter—as well as a few other additional web sites of interest. Here you’ll find expanded information about each web site, and a direct link to that web site by simply clicking on the URL.

Chapter 1: A Social Rationale for Instruction
Chapter 2: Instruction in a Social Kaleidoscope
Chapter 3: Objectives, Outcomes, and Standards for Instruction
Chapter 4: Instructional Design
Chapter 5: Sequencing and Organizing Instruction
Chapter 6: Managing the Classroom Environment
Chapter 7: The Process of Questioning
Chapter 8: Small-Group Discussions and Cooperative Learning
Chapter 9: Inquiry Teaching and Higher-Level Thinking
Chapter 10: Monitoring Student Successes


Chapter 1: A Social Rationale for Instruction

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (http://www.nbpts.org) provides information about National Board Certification, among other things. The mission of the NBPTS is to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining standards for what teachers should know and be able to do; to provide a voluntary system for certifying teachers who meet these standards; and to advocate related education reforms.

Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com) is an example of a well-known Web index. It provides web sites organized by subject, or users can conduct a search by key word or words.

Google (http://www.google.com) is an example of a well-known search engine on the Web. To conduct a search using Google, users simply type descriptive words into the search box.

The American Federation of Teachers (http://www.aft.org) is one of the major teachers’ organizations. This web site includes information for PreK-12 teachers, including the latest state-by-state AFT salary survey, recent relevant news, and grants and scholarships.

The National Education Association (http://www.nea.org) is another major teachers’ organization. The web site provides information for PreK-12 teachers as well as for future teachers. It also includes NEA publications, and information on hot topics, such as technology in schools and class size.

University of Minnesota’s Web66: A K-12 World Wide Web Project (http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html) is devoted to helping K-12 educators learn how to set up their own Internet servers, linking K-12 Web servers and educators and students, and helping K-12 educators find and use appropriate K-12 resources on the Web.

Chapter 2: Instruction in a Social Kaleidoscope

The University of Washington’s DO-IT Program: Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (http://www.washington.edu/doit/). This web site provides information on programs that promote the use of electronic and information technology to maximize the independence, productivity and participation of people with disabilities, and resources for K-12 educators.

U.S General Services Administration’s Center for IT Accommodation (CITA) (http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/content/offerings_content.jsp?contentOID=22804&contentType=1004) is the Government’s principal advocate and coordinator for making information technology accessible for people with disabilities. The website contains information about policies, resources, and links to related websites.

Columbia University’s Institute for Learning Technologies (http://www.ilt.columbia.edu) is engaged in a number of large-scale research projects intended to develop, test, and implement effective pedagogical approaches to the use of new information technology in education. ILT’s website contains information about the organization and its projects, as well as relevant resources and publications.

The Jean Piaget Society: Society for the Study of Knowledge and Development encourages the application of advances in the understanding of development to education and other domains. Its website at (http://www.piaget.org) contains suggested readings for students and teachers, web links, and a list of JPS publications and conferences.

The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA; formerly the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education or NCBE) (http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu) collects, analyzes, and disseminates information about the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S. Its website contains an online library, language and education links, resources for linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms, and more.

The American Psychological Association (http://www.apa.org) maintains a website with access to databases, abstracts, links to the divisions of the APA (such as Education Psychology and School Counseling), and other related information.

Chapter 3: Objectives, Outcomes, and Standards for Instruction

The University of Cape Town maintains a web page called Designing and Managing MCQ’s: Appendix C: MCQ’s and Bloom’s Taxonomy
(http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/cbe/mcqman/mcqappc.html), which explains Bloom’s Taxonomy and his hierarchy of educational objectives, and contains links to other websites with information on Bloom’s taxonomy.

The U.S. Department of Education’s website (http://www.ed.gov/) contains resources for educators, a link to the No Child Left Behind website, and much more.

The website for Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) at (http://www.mcrel.org) contains information about state standards, as well as state and rural education resources, lesson plans, hot topics, and more.

Chapter 4: Instructional Design

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse website (http://www.enc.org) contains effective curriculum resources, professional development materials, and useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning.

The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) Project Site (http://www.geminfo.org) is a consortium effort that provides access to the uncataloged collections of Internet-based educational materials available on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

AskEric (http://www.askeric.org) is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers and anyone interested in education. It also provides a collection of more than 2,000 lesson plans organized by subject.

Yahoo’s Education directory (http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/) contains a listing of K-12 lesson plans organized by subject and links to related web sites.

StudyWeb (http://www.studyweb.com) is a premier website for educational resources. Its services are currently available only by school subscription.

Chapter 5: Sequencing and Organizing Instruction

The MCTP Instructional Innovations Resource (http://www.odu.edu/webroot/orgs/educ/misc/mctp.nsf/pages/mctp_r_idtl) contains links to numerous websites related to inductive and deductive teaching and learning.

Several web pages on Towson University’s web site contain charts comparing directed and constructivist models. Try one of the following:

(http://tiger.towson.edu/users/lyoung7/constructivistdirected.htm)
(http://tiger.towson.edu/~abosle2/Contrasts.html)
(http://tiger.towson.edu/users/jbarne5/learningtheories.htm)

The Vancouver Island Invisible Disability (VIDA) website at (http://www.ldpride.net) contains a helpful Learning Styles link, which explains learning styles and multiple intelligences.

Chapter 6: Managing the Classroom Environment

Columbia University’s School of Education provides a School Safety web site (http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/administration/safety/), which contains Internet resources about issues regarding school safety.

The Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character at Boston University’s School of Education Web site (http://www.bu.edu/education/caec) contains information regarding moral and character education, such as resources, research links, and lesson plans.

Character Counts! (http://www.charactercounts.org) is a nonprofit coalition of schools, communities and nonprofit organizations working to advance character education by teaching the Six Pillars of Character. The website provides a discussion forum, free teaching tools, weblinks, and much more.

Chapter 7: The Process of Questioning

The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (http://www.nwrel.org) provides research and developmental assistance in delivering high-quality educational programs. Type "questioning" in the Search box, and you’ll come up with over 100 web pages on the NWREL site, such as "Classroom Questioning: School Improvement Research Series," Overheads: Questioning as Dialogue or Advocacy," and "Improving Black Student Achievement: Questioning for Quality Thinking."

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum created by Barbara Fowler at Longview Community College (http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/blooms.htm) provides assistance with question lead-ins or stems. All of the question lead-ins are tied to Bloom’s six levels.

Questioning.org (http://questioning.org) includes articles and questioning techniques. Click on Articles, and you’ll come to "A Questioning Toolkit," which contains 17 different types of questions and numerous examples of each.

Chapter 8: Small-Group Discussions and Cooperative Learning

The Stock Market Gameä (http://www.smgww.org) is an educational program primarily for students in grades 4-12, which stimulates learning about economics, finance, and the American economic system.

The Cooperative Learning Center at the University of Minnesota (http://www.clcrc.com/) explains what cooperative learning is; includes essays on developments pioneered by the Center, and provides training programs and materials.

Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching (http://www.psu.edu/dept/celt/) includes numerous teaching methods for active learning, as well as numerous other topics.

Princeton University has information for teaching assistants on its website (http://www.princeton.edu/~aiteachs/), which is equally relevant for teachers at any level. Click on the AI Handbook and then on the left-hand side of the page you’ll see "Leading and Facilitating Discussion," which provides discussion models and questions.

Chapter 9: Inquiry Teaching and Higher-Level Thinking

The WebQuest Page (http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html) is hosted by the Educational Technology Department at San Diego State University. A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. The website is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web.

The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (http://www.nwrel.org) provides research and developmental assistance in delivering high-quality educational programs. Type "thinking" in the Search box, and you’ll come up with over 100 web pages on the NWREL site, such as "Teaching Thinking Skills: School Improvement Research Series," "Critical and Creative Thinking," and "Thinking About Thinking."

Longview Community College offers a website called Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project (http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/corenotes.htm), contributed by Lauren Miller and Michael Connelly, which explores the core concepts of critical thinking.

The University of Toronto offers a Learning to Learn website (http://snow.utoronto.ca/Learn2/introll.html). The website contains information about learning, and information about visual inductive and deductive reasoning and metacognition.



The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements (http://www.unl.edu/buros) promotes meaningful and appropriate test selection and utilization, and provides professional assistance, expertise and information to users of commercially published tests. The web site allows users to search from a database of over 20,000 tests, search for reviews of educational and psychological tests and measures, and to search for information on over 900 commercial publishers.

The Educational Testing Service (http://www.ets.org) is the largest private educational testing and measurement organization in the world. ETS develops tests and other assessment tools for test takers, educational institutions, and others. The organization’s web site provides information about major testing programs, computerized testing, a complete test directory, information about the research being conducted by the ETS Research Centers, and more.