Pedagogy Links

Fun --- Thinking like a scientist

Lesson plans aligned to National Science Education Standards

Links to Project 2061 Science

Good teaching crosses ALL grade levels! These hints came from a web site for college faculty http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/names.htm

• Learning students' names
• Getting a classroom discussion going
• Cooperative learning
• Writing for learning
• Learning as thinking
• Student-generated test questions: a motivator
• Minute papers (or cards) for clarifying what students actually thought they understood.
• What is classroom assessment?

Recent and Relevant

• Learning science through apprenticeship in the classroom
• Teacher-research
• Academic rigor and student opportunities

Assessment

• What is Classroom Assessment?
• Classroom Assessment Techniques
• Rubrics
• Assessing web sites for school use --- Great site for teens--- the OLogy site
• Writing a Lesson Plan
• Student Assessment Techniques

Behavior

These hints came from this site http://www.disciplinehelp.com/behindex/default.htm

• You can handle them all
• Differentiated instruction
• How student motivation to learn differs from yours
• Using tact vs attacking students

More links for teaching

Suggestions/corrections/questions are always welcome!