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Pennsylvania Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

 

Feb 13, 2008

The Curriculum and Technology Committees have initiated a directory of resources that may be helpful for you in your position responsibilities either as a new or experienced leader in the areas of curriculum or technology. This directory has many links to websites or contains pdf files of sample documents that have been identified by colleagues as useful.  We would like to share these tools with our members.

Disclaimer:  Please note – these websites and/or documents have been provided by various colleagues.  You need to review and use such data at your discretion.  PASCD does not support or endorse one site over another.


Curricular Resources

 

Grant Wiggins
Authentic Education
http://www.authenticeducation.org/ 
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Understanding by Design and the Big Ideas / Essential Questions.
http://www.curriculumdesigners.com/#
McRel – Keys to Learning – Standard Based Curriculum and Instruction
http://www.mcrel.org/keystolearning
ASCD ~The Whole Child Campaign

A Video Montage of ASCD's Whole Child Campaign

http://webserver3.ascd.org/wholechild/Whole_Child_03.wmv

Research Brief
This is a web based publication that offers practitioners and policy makers focused summaries of original, interdisciplinary and high quality research published once a month.
http://www.ascd.org/researchbrief

Smart Brief
ASCD SmartBrief (delivered daily through e-mail) is a free news service that provides summaries and links to major education stories on curriculum, professional development, leadership, emerging technologies, policy and news from the field. You can subscribe to receive this free service from ASCD.
http://www.smartbrief.com/ascd

Learn to be Healthy
Lesson plans and resources for health education
www.learntobehealthy.org


Instructional Resources

 

~Differentiated Instruction

Planning for Differentiation
There are lots of articles and resources that offers step by step planning
guidelines for teachers of all grade levels.
http://www.teachnology.com/tutorials/teaching/
differentiate/planning/
Characteristics and Behaviors of
Differentiated Instruction

This site offers lesson plans, resources as
well as ideas and strategies to differentiate in the
classroom.
http://www.frsd.k12.nj.us/rfmslibrarylab/di/differentiated_
instruction.htm
Adjust your Teaching Process
This site is one stop shopping for lesson plans, activities, strategies for
themed units for diverse learners in the classroom.

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/di.htm
 
   
~ Instructional Strategies
All Kinds Of Minds Web Site –
Dr. Mel Levine
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/intro.html
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/intro.html

Read, Write and Think  
http://www.readwritethink.org/index

 
 
~ Technology Resources
Free Web-based Training for Teachers
Internet training initiative for teachers, offers 30-minute training modules on: 1. World Wide Web: navigating, searching, organizing and offline browsing. 2. Internet basics: history, glossary of terms, technology crash course and Internet education. 3. Developing Internet-rich lessons plans. 4. Designing and building a Web page. Also includes lesson plans developed by teachers.
http://www.national.com/training/index.html
Web66: A K-12 Web Project
Purposes include: 1.To help K12 educators learn how to set up their own Internet servers. 2.To link K12 WWW servers and the educators and students at those schools. 3.To help K12 educators find and use K12 appropriate resources on the WWW.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/intro.html

e-Board
Perfect for anyone who would like to put information online but doesnt have the need for a website. Fast, Easy, Free. 
http://www.readwritethink.org/index

 
   
~ Free Audio Books for Educators  (download to your computer or I-pod)
 

Free audio books to download to your computer or I-pod

 

These sites invite visitors to download mp3 formatted audio books at no charge for playback on a computer, mp3 player, or I-pod. There wide range of selections. Classic works of William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens are all available for teachers and students to download at no charge.

http://www.audiobooks.org

http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com

http://www.dl.audiobooksforfree.net

 

Adding Resources

If you have a resource that you believe may be useful, please contact  Brian Griffith (bgriffith@caiu.org)- Curriculum Committee Co-Chairs or Jeff Taylor (taylorj@nhsd.net) – Technology Committee Chair. Please provide a brief description of what can be found on the site.


 

If you have a resource that you believe may be useful, please contact:

 

Brian Griffith,
Curriculum Committee Co-Chair

Bgriffith@caiu.org

 

Jeff Taylor,
Technology Committee Chair

taylorj@nhsd.net

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