The Rebooting of a Teacher's Mind by Brenda Dyck



	the REBOOTING of a teacher's mind
	by Brenda Dyck



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	Learning and Change 1. Peer Assessment Teaches Students How to Think What Happened Between Assessments? http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Assessment/index.htm The Global Schoolhouse http://www.gsh.org/ International Schools CyberFair http://www.gsh.org/cf/index.html CyberFair's Peer Evaluation Process http://www.gsh.org/cf/rubric/index.html 2. When Molding Minds Gets Messy Venn diagrams http://www.venndiagram.com/ Interrelationship charts http://www.uvm.edu/~auditwww/tools/interrel.html?tp+true Fishbone and bone diagrams http://www.middleweb.com/MWLresources/dyckarticle1.html Process charts http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Rights/rrprocess.pdf Utilize debate to disclose both sides of an issue http://www.educationworld.com/a lesson/lesson304.shtml Make use of simulations that transport students into the situations or issues being studied http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr391.shtml The Decision To Go To War: Critical Analysis and Role Play http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/iraq/war.html Teaching Is for Thinking http://www.ncrel.org/he/tot/think.htm http://www.ncrel.org/he/tot/think/script46.htm http://www.ncrel.org/he/tot/think/script23.htm Liberating Minds http://tinyurl.com/5qvhq 3. Learning Made Simple Assignment Sheet http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~proj1615/leaders/custom2.html Working Paper 1 http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~proj1615/leaders/workingpaper.pdf Working Paper 2 http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~proj1615/leaders/workingpaper.pdf Working Paper 3 http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~proj1615/paper.pdf Assessment Sheet http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~proj1615/leaders/assesssheet.pdf Edward de Bono Personal Site http://www.edwarddebono.com/ Graphic Organizers http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm 4. Homework: A Place for Rousing Reform Homework Takes a Hit http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues134.shtml Put an End to Homework Horror! http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr306.shtml End Homework Now http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/edlead/0104/kralovec.html The Homework Burden http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/july-dec00/homework.htm Author Argues Amount of Homework Adds Pressure on Kids http://detnews.com/2000/schools/0010/13/e06e-133319.htm 5. Fighting the 1960s Mental Models of the Perfect Classroom A Summary of New Learning Paradigms http://www.utexas.edu/courses/svinicki/382L/summary.html 6. Digging Beneath the Surface of Assessment Using Art To Assess Math http://mathart.freeservers.com/ What Can Student Drawings Tell Us About High-Stakes Testing in Massachusetts? http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=10634 7. Driven by Data: What It's Like to Teach in the Age of Accountability Test-creation Web sites such as Quia http://www.quia.com/ Online survey sites like Zoomerang http://www.zoomerang.com/ Free graphing tool http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/ National Center for Education Statistics' Web page for kids http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/ Graphic organizers http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/ Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an Age of Info-Glut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz, and Info-Glimmer http://www.fno.org/mar97/deep.html Informing Ourselves to Death http://world.std.com/~jimf/informing.html 8. A New Spin On Back to School Night (no Web site noted) 9. The Little Reading Café Lessons from Oprah, Harry Potter, and the Internet http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/rah_chpt7_p2.html The Joy of Reading: Superman and Me http://www.fallsapart.com/superman.html Joy of Reading http://www.fno.org/reading/read.html 10. Make Time to Teach: Ten Tools for Reducing Paperwork MiddleWeb listserv http://www.middleweb.com/ The Simpson's theme—seems to mirror the hectic pace of school, doesn't it? http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Professional/Paper/ Learning Checklists http://4teachers.org/projectbased/checklist.shtml Blogs http://www.blogger.com/ RubiStar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ Zoomerrang http://www.zoomerang.com/ ThinkTank http://thinktank.4teachers.org/ Puzzlemaker http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ IKeepBookmarks http://ikeepbookmarks.com/ The Connection Cube http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/thinking/reflect_activities.cfm - connection Teacher Forms and Letters http://www.teachertools.org/forms_dynam.asp Laura Chandler's File Cabinet http://home.att.net/~teaching/filecab.htm 11. Put on Your (Six) Thinking Hats! Six Thinking Hats display http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Hats/index.html Six Thinking Hats. An excerpt from Edward de Bono's thought-provoking book. http://www.twbookmark.com/books/62/0316177911/chapter_excerpt9537.html Students Talking While Others Are Talking or Teaching. http://www.middleweb.com/MWLresources/thinkinghats.html Turning a Sad Goodbye into a Problem-tunity. http://www.middleweb.com/MWLresources/dyckarticle2.html 12. Downshifting: Teaching (for Understanding) in a Lower Gear Phi Delta Kappan article “It's Time to Start the Slow School Movement” http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0212hol.htm The George Lucas Educational Foundation Web site http://www.glef.org/php/keyword.php?id=037 http://www.glef.org/php/intgallery.php?id=037 Teaching for Understanding: Pictures of Practice http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/tfu/pictures.cfm Teaching for Understanding: Curriculum Design Tools http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/tfu/design_online.cfm Understanding Counts! Teaching for Depth in Math and Science http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/MathSciMatters/BK1DPUNDRv03.pdf Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395755344/102-72084553816117?v=glance 13. Math Class: A Time to Stand and Deliver Learning Guide for Stand and Deliver http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/stand-and-deliver.html Mental Models http://www.algodonesassociates.com/planning/Mental models.pdf \ Wheel of Multiple Perspectives http://www.change-management-toolbook.com/co_06.htm Students 1. Students Can Care and Comfort Peer Support Program http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/peer/peersupportbriefing.htm Peer Support Foundation http://electricity.net.au/ National Youth Service Day http://www.ysa.org/nysd/index.cfm Youth Service America http://www.ysa.org/ Peer Resources http://www.mentors.ca/peer.html 2. Your Students: No Two Are Alike Multiple Intelligences Survey http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php Multiple Intelligences http://www.ez2bsaved.com/Multiple_Intelligences/index-mi.htm - Diagram Learning-Style Preference Questionnaire http://lookingahead.heinle.com/filing/l-styles.htm Little Geniuses http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/articles/geniuses.htm Learning Styles and the Multiple Intelligences http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm Teaching Style Inventory http://www.indstate.edu/ctl/styles/tstyle.html Learner Style Strategies Database http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/inventory.html 3. Curious to the Core Characteristics of Various Areas of Giftedness http://www.nagc.org/NSBA/chartcharacter.PDF Nurturing Social-Emotional Development of Gifted Children http://ericec.org/digests/e527.html The Secrets of Great Groups http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/winter97/bennis.html Innovation Means Relying on Everyone's Creativity http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/spring2001/wheatley.html 4. Student Disinterest: Is It Curable? MiddleWeb Listserv http://www.middleweb.com/mw/aaChat.html Service Learning Resources http://www.goodcharacter.com/SERVICE/webresources.html What Students Need in the Restructured High School http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=07hoffman.h22 The Art and Craft of Motivating Students http://www.successoriesonline.com/mmatters/html/edu_fall02/i_o_m.html Motivating Students http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/motiv. htm 5. Students Reach for the Skylights of Learning Bullying http://www.bullying.org/ Quizzes, tests, and review activities http://www.quia.com/jg/124023.html Fishbone diagrams http://www.skymark.com/resources/tools/cause.asp Venn diagrams http://home.earthlink.net/~tsdobbs/go/goperry.jpg Flowcharts http://www.skymark.com/resources/tools/flowchart.asp Other graphic organizers http://home.earthlink.net/~tsdobbs/Graphic_Organizers/graphic_organizers.html Our third story writing and thinking http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~proj1615/leaders/custom4.html Upper-level thinking http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Leader/Leaderthree/Democracy Two.jpg 6. Surprised by Reading : Confessions of a Math Teacher From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler http://www.peak.org/~bonwritr/BOOK_mixedupfiles.htm Read Alouds: Is It Worth It? http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr213.shtml Reading Aloud—Are Students Ever Too Old? http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr081.shtml StoryLine Online http://www.bookpals.net/storyline/welcome.html 7. Each Student is Someone's Special Child Failure Is Not an Option http://www.historychannel.com/option/ Is That Penguin Stuffed or Real? http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k_v78/k9612oha.htm 8. Service Projects Help Students Find Their Voices We converted hundreds of dollars into 50-penny rolls http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Street/Roll/index.html http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Street/Student/index.html http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Street/Line2/index.html Giving Teens Good Press http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2000/12/121300_magazines.jhtml Service Learning in Action Across the Grades http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr187.shtml A Different Kind of Education http://riverdeep.net/current/2000/10/100600_kid.jhtml Make a Difference Day http://usaweekend.com/diffday/index.html Do Something http://www.dosomething.org/ Getting Kids to “Do Something” http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr385.shtml Earth Inc.—A Service-Learning Lesson Plan http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson154.shtml Is Community Service a Waste of Time? http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr188.shtml Community Service: Opportunity or Exploitation? http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr037.shtml 9. Looking at Your Students in the Future Tense What Does It Mean To Be Thirteen? http://www.nmsa.org/moya/new2002/pk_related_itmean.html Understanding and Appreciating the Wonder Years http://www.nmsa.org/moya/new2002/pk_related_understanding.html Reflections From a Teacher's Heart http://www.middleweb.com/puckett.html Teachers 1. American Teachers: A Strength Exposed MiddleWeb Listserv http://www.middleweb.com/ 2. Asleep on the Job Emotions and Learning http://www.learner.org/resources/series172.html Teaching With Fun and Humor http://www.etni.org.il/farside/humorme.htm Humor in the Mathematics Classroom? http://www.nade.net/documents/SCP94/SCP94.14.pdf Ten Games for Classroom Fun http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson169.shtml 3. Fragile in February Catching Up With Our Bodies: Reflections on Teacher Burnout http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr344.shtml Stress http://teachers.net/gazette/FEB02/jones.html Inspirational Teacher Stories http://www.lessonplanspage.com/Inspiration.htm 4. Catching Up With Our Bodies: Reflections on Teacher Burnout Total Teacher Wellness http://www.speakwell.com/well/2000_fall/articles/total_teacher_wellness.html Is Teachers' Work Never Done? http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue2_1/02Michelson.html Stress Busters for Teachers: Top Ways to Prevent Burnout http://stressrelease.com/strssbus.html Urban School Restructuring and Teacher Burnout http://www.ericdigests.org/1992-4/urban.htm Teacher Stress and Burnout http://interact.uoregon.edu/wrrc/Burnout.html 5. Teaching with Heart Steps to Success in Being a Teacher http://www.fariborz.com/onbeinga.htm The Spirit of Teaching http://www.middleweb.com/mw/msdiaries/01-02wklydiaries/EB14.html Notes From a Teacher/Soldier in the Learning Revolution http://www.middleweb.com/StdCtrdTchng.html Asleep on the Job http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr349.shtml Educators on the Edge http://www.edweek.org/tm/tmstory.cfm?slug=07intro.h12 Teacher Town, USA http://www.edweek.org/tm/tmstory.cfm?slug=02town.h12 6. And We Shall Morph Again Coping With Change http://www.itstime.com/may97a.htm Leading Thoughts: Quotes on Change http://www.leadershipnow.com/changequotes.html The Quote Garden: Quotations About Change http://www.quotegarden.com/change.html 7. Your Professional Development: Let Your Fingers Do the Walking Professional Development Survey http://www.ascd.org/trainingopportunities/ossd/survey.cfm Education Week http://www.edweek.org/ Instructor http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/index.htm Journal of Staff Development http://www.nsdc.org/ MultiMedia Schools http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/past.shtml Phi Delta Kappan http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/karticle.htm Teacher http://www.teachermagazine.org/ Stenhouse Publishers http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfbooks.htm Heinemann Publishers http://www.heinemann.com/shared/resources/sample_chapters.asp - 79 ASCD 2003 Conference (from San Francisco, California) http://www.simulconference.com/ASCD/2003/ ASCD 2002 Conference (from San Antonio, Texas) http://www.simulconference.com/clients/ascd/ 2003 National Educational Computing Conference (from Seattle, Washington) http://center.uoregon.edu/NECC/NECC2003/attendees/program/webcasting.php Webcasts from NMSA http://store.nmsa.org/index.asp?PageAction=PRODSEARCH&txtSearch=webcast&Page=1 Annenberg/CPB Channel http://www.learner.org/channel/channel.html Education World article, Critical Friends Groups: Catalysts for School Change http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin136.shtml Teacher-2-Teacher Listserv http://www.teachnet.com/t2t/ Electronic Discussion Lists Hosted by ECAP http://ecap.crc.uiuc.edu/projects.html - listserv Classroom Connect's Mailing Lists http://listserv.classroom.com/archives/ MiddleWeb Listserv http://www.middleweb.com/mw/aaChat.html EdTech Listserv http://www.h-net.org/~edweb 8. It's Quittin' Time Gone With the Wind http://www.franklymydear.com/ Making the Most of the Dreaded End-of-School Days http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson268.shtml Winding Up Learning as the Year Winds Down http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson184.shtml Egg Drop Competition http://www.asme.org/eggdrop/ Quittin' Time Audio File http://www.reelclassics.com/Movies/GWTW/GWTW.htm 9. Professional Conferences Reflect, Restore Passion National Middle School Association (NMSA) annual conference http://www.nmsa.org/annual Technology + Learning Conference http://www.nsba.org/T+L Debate Rages Over Digital Divide http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin103.shtml 10. Where Have All the Staff Rooms Gone? Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community http://www.bowlingalone.com/index.php3 What Does Social Capital Mean? http://www.bowlingalone.com/socialcapital.php3 Better Together. http://www.bettertogether.org/index.htm 150 Things You Can Do to Create Social Capital. http://www.bettertogether.org/150ways.htm Celebration and Events to Build the Team http://www.teambuildinginc.com/article_celebrations.htm 11. About Stephen…and Fresh Starts (no Web sites noted) Technology 1. Stand By Me: Using Teacher Listservs to Collaborate with Other Educators MidLink Magazine http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/ http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ml.eds/ml.eds.2000.bio.htm Looking for a listserv? Teacher-to-Teacher Listserv http://www.teachnet.com/t2t/ MiddleWeb Listserv http://www.middleweb.com/MWlistserve.html For a World of Help, Try a Listserv! http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/listserv/ Getting Started on the Internet: Add Your Name to a Listserv—Today! http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr062.shtml More about Roosevelt and Churchill http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/fdr_churchill_documents/fdr_churchill.html 2. Learning in the Dark: Building My First Web Project and Web Page MidLink Magazine http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink Brenda's and Robin's Tech Tips: http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=TeacherTechTipsArchive FrontPage 2000 Simplified http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764534505/qid=1000523797/103- 2839376-8336613 Yahoo eGroups http://groups.yahoo.com/local/news.html 3. Seeing is Believing: Harnessing Online Video Clips to Enhance Learning Western Wall in Jerusalem http://www.aish.com/seminars/tunneltour http://www.inisrael.com/3disrael/kotel/ Great Wall of China http://www.thebeijingguide.com/great_wall_of_china/index.html Ellis Island http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/ World Against Child Labor http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/childlabour/index.htm The Power of One http://www.caringstrangers.com/powerofone.htm National Holocaust Museum http://www.ushmm.org/ American Field Guide http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide The Veteran Experience http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi?p=http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/memorial/vetex.html The History Channel's Speech Archive http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html Frontline http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline CNN http://www.cnn.com/ 4. In Classroom, Computers Often Yield More Glitz Than Guts From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal http://www.fno.org/ Mind Candy http://www.fno.org/jun98/kafe.html Windows Messenger http://messenger.msn.com/ Yahoo! Groups http://groups.yahoo.com/ Laptop Computers for Every Student http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr048.shtml Scoring Power Points http://www.fno.org/sept00/powerpoints.html 5. Telecollaborative Project Develops Compassion We the Children Project Page http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Rights/index.html Student Writing from Israel http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Rights/Israel/index.html Activity Structures http://www.2learn.ca/Projects/Together/structures.html Epals http://www.epals.com/ 6. Becoming a Wired Teacher Global Schoolhouse Shared Learning Teacher Awards http://www.gsnaward.org/ Integrating Technology into Instruction http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/mar00/robertson.htm Visions of Online Projects Dance in My Head http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan98/story.htm Compiling a Profile of Staff Technology Skills http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/anderson.htm 7. Luring Learners—Against the Odds United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/rightonline/whats.html United Nations Special Session on Children http://www.unicef.org/specialsession/ 2LearnProjectCenter http://www.2learn.ca/Projects/ProjectCentre/projframe.html 8. Teacher, Alias Telementor Mendoza http://www.mendoza.com/ Power of Words assignment http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Justice/Web page/QUOTES/index.html Gonzalo's response-style Web page http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Justice/Survey/survey.htm Quilt of Forgiveness square http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Justice/Quilt2/Argentina/index.html As I See It http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Justice/Studentwork/Argentina/index.html International Telementor Organization http://www.telementor.org/ National Mentoring Month 2003 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030102-4.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040109-12.html National Mentoring Partnership http://www.mentoring.org/index.adp 9. Connecting Students to Their Past: World War I Project Battle of Vimy Ridge http://collections.ic.gc.ca/turner/ar_vimy.html Stories From the Street http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/CyberFair1/index.html Global Schoolhouse CyberFair 2003 http://www.gsn.org/cf/ Audio files http://www.archives.ca/05/0518/051801_e.html Soldiers' diaries http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/1diary Video footage http://www.doctv.com/trailers/john-mccraes-war.html Interviews with veterans http://collections.ic.gc.ca/audio/vetinter.htm Artwork http://www.archives.ca/05/050801_e.html Poetry http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/tutorials/intro/ Novels set in 1914-1918 http://redcedar.swifty.com/2002/nominees/fiction/charliewilcox.htm Story of a Nation http://www.randomhouse.ca/features/storyofanation/book.html Battle of Somme (1916) http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/beaumont/somme2.htm Newfoundland Park Memorial http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Diary/Quentin2/index.html Story from the trenches http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/Diary/Moreuil/index.html Museum of the Regiments http://www.museumoftheregiments.ca/ History Lessons: World War I Lessons http://ohioteach.history.ohio-state.edu/Lessons/fww.htm The Western Front—Would You Have Made a Good Officer? http://www.activehistory.co.uk/games/ww1RF/Western Front Sim.htm Life in the Trenches http://www.activehistory.co.uk/games/trenches/frameset.htm