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designed our courses to prepare you to pass credit-granting exams. There are three widely accepted ways to earn college credit by exam. The CLEP exam is $80 per class. || || //The Strong Learning Centers//® //Phonics// Checklist (SL-PC) is administered individually to assess which phonemes students need to practice using //the// phonics card game. || around the world. Sometimes, complicated information is difficult to understand and needs an illustration. Graphs are perfect for this! ||
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 * [|Literacy TA] || Get moving with the Common Core Standards. The literacy resources on this page help educators implement the following College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards. ||
 * [| Common Core and ELL's] || It includes Common Core classroom videos, interviews, and lessons from Albuquerque, New Mexico; updated information about language proficiency standards, assessment, and instruction; and a collection of multilingual parent resources. ||
 * [|Literacy Design Collaborative] || These modules, written by educators working through LDC, are designed to support core content teachers in implementing the Common Core State Standards. ||
 * [| Common Core Open Resources] || Resources produced through work with the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Educator Leader Cadre (ELC) are now available to all educators. ||
 * [|National Geographic] || NatGeoEd.org offers an expanded and updated library of National Geographic’s popular education content, highlighting our iconic media and expert resources aligned with education standards. We offer a wide range of free educational resources that bring geography, science, and social studies to life for educators, learners, and their families. ||
 * [|Share My Lesson] || Share My Lesson is a place where educators can come together to create and share their very best teaching resources. Developed by teachers for teachers, this free platform gives access to high-quality teaching resources and provides an online community where teachers can collaborate with, encourage and inspire each other. Share My Lesson has a significant resource bank for Common Core State Standards, covering all aspects of the standards, from advice and guides to help with dedicated resources that support the standards. ||
 * [| Education Portal] || Education Portal's free online courses lead to real college credit so you canavoid debt and earn your degree faster. We do not offer credit directly, but we
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 * [|Create a Graph] || Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. Forthis reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses
 * [|Inside Mathematics] || **Inside Mathematics is** a professional resource for educators passionate about improving students' mathematics learning and performance. This site features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the site. ||
 * [|Mathematics Assessment Project] || This site includes: **“Beta” versions of the currently released //Classroom Challenges// lessons** for High School and Middle School, cross-referenced to the CCSSM content and practice standards. These are ready to download, print and use. ||
 * [|Text Project] || TextProject aims to bring beginning and struggling readers to high levels of literacy through a variety of strategies and tools, particularly the texts used for reading instruction. ||
 * [|Academic Word List] || Averil Coxhead developed and evaluated //The Academic Word List// (AWL) for her MA thesis. This list is a very useful resource for English for Academic Purposes teachers and learners. ||
 * [|Core Task Project] || The Core Task Project is a professional learning model that challenges assumptions and addresses the “instructional shifts.” Further, it answers the question, “What does it mean to do the Core?” Inquiry based and developed by teachers, the CTP uses Close Reading Exemplars, developed by Student Achievement Partners, as a means to refine classroom instruction so that is matched to the CCSS. ||
 * [[file:2013 FOW Flyer.pdf]] || Walter Dean Myers will be presenting at the Festival of Words -Appoquinimink High School March 9th, 2013. ||
 * [|Study Ladder] || StudyLadder, geared for elementary and junior high/middle grades, lends itself to being an interesting, ready to use stock of activities to reinforce many content standards from a wide range of curricula. Many of the activities offer a game-like feeling, while building conceptual understanding. ||
 * [|History Pin] || Imagine creating one large photo album for the entire human population. Historypin brings together stories, photographs and links memories from around the world. ||
 * [|Docs Teach] || Educators can “find and create learning activities with primary source documents that promote historical thinking skills.” Use the more than 3000 original documents from the National Archives to create rich, online learning experiences for students.Tip: Use the interactive learning activity tools to help students “think like historians.” ||
 * [|Comicmaster] || Comicmaster is a free, easy to use tool for creating short graphic novels. While the backgrounds and characters are somewhat limited, it's possible to make and print comics at this site without creating an account. The site also has an educational resources page with lesson plans and ideas for using comics in the classroom. Tip: Have students create or write graphic novels to share amongst their peers in the library. ||
 * [|CCSS Webinars] || These sessions are complimentary from Pearson and will provide you with tools, strategies and resources to help succeed as you transition into the Common Core Standards. ||
 * [|Blended Learning Bootcamp] || PLC will provide a forum for guidance and support for educators who are integrating technology into the curriculum. Provided free of charge! ||
 * [|Co-Teaching PowerPoints & PD Materials] || The Arkansas Co-Teaching Project is designed to provide support to schools interested in implementing a new co-teaching program or improving an existing one ||
 * [|Co-Teaching Webinars] || These modules introduce the many faces of co-teaching relationships, exemplars and non-exemplars of successful co-teaching strategies, approaches for developing co-teaching skills, and opportunities to co-plan lessons. ||
 * [|Co-Teaching Modules] || **//Improving Access to the General Curriculum for Students with Disabilities Through Collaborative Teaching//** is a professional development module which explores the components of the definition of co-teaching, how co-teaching looks in the classroom, scheduling and planning issues, and the challenge of supervising and evaluating a co-teaching team. ||
 * [|Learnist] || Online test prep company Grockit has launched a new social learning site, Learnist, which the company likens to "the Pinterest for educators and students." With it, users can collect and pin content from around the web, like YouTube videos and websites, onto digital bulletin boards, called learn boards, organized by theme or lesson. ||
 * [|Watch Know Learn] || Imagine hundreds of thousands of great short videos and other media, explaining every topic taught to school kids. Imagine them rated and sorted into a giant Directory, making them simple to find. WatchKnowLearn is a non-profit online community devoted to this goal. ||
 * [|Pics for Learning] || Not everything has to be video. Perhaps you wish to use a still image to facilitate a discussion and promote inquiry. ||
 * [|Center for Educational Excellence] || Our mission is to radically improve the quality of education provided to our nation’s most at-risk and underserved students: low-income, minority teenagers and young adults who are attending schools in alternative settings, including youth and adult correctional facilities. ||
 * [|Tools for Reflecting on Your Teaching] || To help you reflect on your teaching, you need some data. You may collect feedback on your teaching at any time of the term and from a variety of sources: your students, your colleagues, and yourself. Used for professors but easily adaptable. ||
 * [|Scaffolding Ideas] || The term ‘scaffolding’ comes from the works of Wood, Bruner and Ross (1976). The term ‘scaffolding’ was developed as a metaphor to describe the type of assistance offered by a teacher or peer to support learning. ||
 * Choice Boards || This resource was recommended by the DGS educators. Thank you Becky, Jill & Lindsay! A **CHOICE BOARD** offers students a way to make decisions about what they will do in order to meet class requirements. A choice board could be for a single lesson, a week-long lesson, or even a month-long period of study. ||
 * [|Khan Academy] || This resource was recommended by Mr. Howlett (Seaford House Educator). Thank you Ed! With over [|3,100 videos] on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and [|hundreds of skills to practice], [|we're on a mission] to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. This resource is free -unlike Discovery Education. ||
 * [|The Teaching Channel] || Teaching Channel is a video showcase -- on the Internet and TV -- of inspiring and effective teaching practices in America's schools. Excellent information on how to incorporate CCSS into your LFS lessons/units! ||
 * [|Math Train TV] || Alan November recommends this site for teachers who want students to learn with Purpose, Autonomy & Mastery. ||
 * [|Ohio CCSS Model Curriculum] || During the summer and fall of 2010, teachers across Ohio worked collaboratively in teams to suggest instructional strategies and resources that align with the revised CCSS standards. ||
 * [|National Institute of Health Resources] || //New Releases: Doing Science: The Process of Scientific Inquiry,////Looking Good, Feeling Good: From the Inside Out (Exploring Bone, Muscle, and Skin) &// //The Science of Mental Illness// ||
 * [|Science-Free Teaching Resources] || Get free science teaching resources from the U.S. Department of Education. Science tools include those for applied, Earth, life, and physical sciences. There are also options in other subjects. ||
 * [|Best Websites For Teaching] || The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. ||
 * [|Ten Cool Sites] || Some of the sites described here include: TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, Human: Body & Mind (from the BBC), Energy Kids & the Ocean Portal! ||
 * [|Co-Teaching Connection] || The goal of this site is to provide resources for educators who want to know more about co-teaching. ||
 * [|Bloom's Questioning Strategies] || Contains numerous sentence starters to assist teachers in developing critical thinking questions ||
 * [|Career Cruising] || Career Cruising is an industry leader in career exploration and planning, with products to meet the needs of educators, career counselors, and workforce development professionals. ||
 * [|Education World] || This site is a complete online resource that educators could visit each day to find high-quality lesson plans and research materials. ||
 * [|Ed Helper] || This site provides resources for educators for a small fee. ||
 * [|Web English Teacher] || Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, videos, e-texts, technology integration, criticism, and classroom activities. ||
 * [|Florida Center for Reading Research] || Their mission is to conduct basic research on reading, reading growth, reading assessment, and reading instruction that will contribute to the scientific knowledge of reading and benefit students in Florida and throughout the nation. ||
 * [|Peace Corps Free Curriculum] || Many of the Coverdell World Wise Schools standards-based resources are structured according to the framework called Understanding by Design ([|McTighe and Wiggins]). They present "[|enduring understandings]"; and "[|essential questions],"; which express the basic ideas that a lesson is designed to elicit or teach. ||
 * [|21st Century Literacies] || In //Intelligence Reframed// Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our [|understanding] of important questions, topics, and themes." ||
 * [|Metacognition] || Metacognition literally means "big thinking." You are thinking about thinking. During this process you are examining your brain's processing. Teachers work to guide students to become more strategic thinkers by helping them understand the way they are processing information. ||
 * [|Exploratorium] || The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception located in San Francisco, California. We believe that following your curiosity and asking questions can lead to amazing moments of discovery, learning, and awareness, and can increase confidence in your ability to understand how the world works. ||
 * [|Exploratorium] || The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception located in San Francisco, California. We believe that following your curiosity and asking questions can lead to amazing moments of discovery, learning, and awareness, and can increase confidence in your ability to understand how the world works. ||