A Wealth of Ideas

Visit this site and you will be introduced to a document that features a wealth of instructional ideas for humanities teachers, K-12. All the major innovative websites are listed within this document.

site: http://www.uensd.org/manuals/manuals/Integration/LanguageArtsK-6.PDF

Explorations into Learning and Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database

This database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. Contained within are clear, well-written overviews of the major theorists (e.g., Bruner, Piaget, Maslow, Gardner, et al).



website: http://tip.psychology.org/index.html

Great Web Sites for English Teachers

1. www.englishcompanion.com

Jim Burke’s incredible website based on his book The English Teacher’s Companion. Every possible idea for the English teacher; lots of great websites

2. www.tengrrl.com

This is Traci’s List of Ten website—lists of great English language arts activities. Fun to investigate.

3. www.lessonplanspage.com

This site has a great mix of lessons from all disciplines, K-12

4. www.school-clip-art.com

This site contains every possible type of copyright-free clipart for use in class publications

5. www.usingenglish.com

You'll find every possible activity to help the ELL/ESL learner

6. www.lessonplancentral.com

Contains a strong variety of lessons and websites for the English teacher

7. www.ira.org

Here's the official website for the International Reading Association

8. www.ncte.org

This is the official website for the National Council of Teachers of English

9. http://edsitement.neh.gov/

Here's an incredible website sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities

10. www.knowledgeloom.org

This site has been developed at Brown University and is a "clearinghouse" of articles and links for teaching and learning. It features a search engine that allows you to find specific articles/references on key language arts approaches/techniques. Very easy to use!

Welcome to our English Blog

I will be using this blog to post resources for the teaching of English. Also, we can use this blog to react to class assignments and to raise issues concerning being an English/social studies teacher in 2006. I will also use this forum to disseminate any needed information to our class. I encourage all of you to share your thoughts via this blog as well as to check out all the amazing resources that are available to our discipline.