Attached below ("SHS Chapter full text") is my latest publication, Students Helping Students: An ELL Parent Tutoring Program Partnership, in B. Cozza and P. Blessinger (Eds.) University Partnerships for Pre-Service and Teacher Development, Emerald Press, 2017. The publisher sells it for $124.95 but Amazon has the hardcover version for $86.23, although their Kindle version is the same as the publisher's price.
REQUIRED
In the attachments is a pretest designed to activate your prior knowledge of the psychology of learning and teaching. Unlike many other tests, the important thing isn't what you get right or wrong, but rather to help you think about your own thinking and learning and to make learning more personally relevant and meaningful. I usually administer this pretest at the beginning of the semester to help me refine my plans for teaching each class. This test also serves as a model of an instrument you could design for your own students to help you tailor your curriculum and instruction to the needs of a particular class.
Three attached documents:
1. My Beliefs about Teaching
2. Summary of Research on Parenting Styles & the Educational Implications
3. Wentzel pdf article on teaching styles in middle school. (attached)
4. Link to a short survey, called Your Classroom Management Profile, where you can assess your own teaching style tendencies based on concepts like those from research on Parenting Styles. http://www.cbv.ns.ca/sstudies/gen3.html
Three attached documents: Two articles, one graphic organizer.
1. Gay - Preparing for Culturally Responsive Teaching*
2. School Connectedness
3. Wingspread Declaration on School Connectedness (graphic organizer).
1.This is a link to a brief version of a 1986 article on the classic problem faced by many black students who are viewed as "acting white", by the famous anthropologist John Ogbu http://www.nyesma.org/documents/Black_Students_Acting_White.pdf
2. Link to Rap Music to teach in a variety of subjects http://www.educationalrap.com/
3. Link to Hip-Hop in the classroom http://www.flocabulary.com/ .
4. Link to YouTube clip on a creative, culturally responsive way to teach chemistry, from the old TV show, WKRP in Cincinnati. Venus Explains the Atom
Links focusing on how to handle students' misbehavior:
1. "The Really Big List of Classroom Management Resources"
http://www.newtownprimary.tased.edu.au/TeacherResources/Behaviour/big_list_of_classroom_man.htm
2. Assertive Discipline http://campus.dyc.edu/~drwaltz/FoundLearnTheory/FLT_readings/Canter.htm
TeacherVision: Teaching Students with Special Needs
Autism Temple Grandin Speaking at TED: The world needs all kinds of minds
http://www.ted.com/talks/temple_grandin_the_world_needs_all_kinds_of_minds.html#
1. KATHY SCHROCK's Guide for Educators has changed due to her retirement. Here's a new link to Assessment & Rubrics http://www.schrockguide.net/assessment-and-rubrics.html
2. Project-Based, Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning: http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic43.htm
3. Graphic Organizers
The NCREL educational resource site has an excellent collection of diverse http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm
You can get a 30 day free trial of Inspiration's wonderful graphic organizer software at http://www.inspiration.com/
CMAP is free concept mapping software, available at http://cmap.ihmc.us/
Look at the results when you Google "Graphic Organizers" and select images! https://www.google.com/search?q=graphic+organizers&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=9J4lT6_2HoP00gHPjZ2ACQ&biw=747&bih=331&sei=-J4lT425HYfv0gG24bDeCA
OPTIONAL
Best Teaching Practices summarized in a 2011 CUNY document attached at the bottom of this page, with references to show the research base underlying them.
Classroom Questions: http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1836/Classroom-Questions.html
Hip Hop http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/tupac-shakur-language-arts
Celebrating Cultural Diversity: Strategies for teachers: http://baucomes.wcpss.net/diversity/diversity
Special Needs Learners:
A. For Teachers: Understanding Learning Disabilities. From the Learning Disabilities Association of America.
B. Teaching in Tandem:One (New York) school's success through coteaching. Learning with Disabilities. ASCD 2012
C. Gifted and Talented High School Students Quick Reference Material. Recommended activities. Old, but some good ideas!
D. Resources for Gifted and Talented Education Program. "Outside" links from the California Department of Education.
E. Bobby Approval for Website Accessibility: http://www.bobby-approved.com/ (10/15/12 new link replacing old one).
F. Inclusion: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions from the NEA.
Compare NYC schools through this interactive site http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2011/08/30/welcome-to-schoolbook/
TED Ideas Worth Spreading http://www.ted.com/talks
Purpose Games: For students to self-test their knowledge of topics in subjects across the curriculum! http://www.purposegames.com/games
The Jason Project: Science Education through Exploration http://www.jason.org/public/whatis/start.aspx
Quantum Mechanics explained in song! http://www.alancross.ca/a-journal-of-musical-things/2011/9/7/quantum-mechanics-explained-in-song.html
Below is a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting Reciprocal Teaching with Cognitive Behavior Modification.
Here are several images of Inquiry Models http://www.google.com/images?q=inquiry+model&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1WZPB_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&sa=X&ei=yfWZTb_-DsabtwfRnoSXDA&ved=0CDsQsAQ&biw=922&bih=392
The Jigsaw method of cooperative learning, developed by Aronson in the 1970s, has an official site, Jigsaw Classroom http://www.jigsaw.org/
Substitute Teacher Survival Tools http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr260.shtml
PBS Celebration of Teaching and Learning http://thirteencelebration.org/
Parenting: Chao (2000) on Chinese vs. European American parenting styles and the implications for students' academic achievement http://www.mfas.ucr.edu/publications/AppliedDevelopmentalPsychology2000.pdf
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Fostering Motivation in Professional Development Programs: The Intrinsic Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching (attached)
Culturally Responsive Teaching at the InTime website http://www.intime.uni.edu/multiculture/curriculum/culture/Teaching.htm
Harlem Children's Zone http://www.hcz.org/home
NETS for Teachers Attached document:(2008) National Educational Technology Standards.
Jerome Bruner on Constructivism http://tip.psychology.org/bruner.html
Situated Cognition This is a link to a classic article by Brown, Collins and Duguid (1989) http://www.exploratorium.edu/ifi/resources/museumeducation/situated.html
Cooperative Learning Here's a link to a summary of characteristics of cooperative learning and a brief description of several approaches to it http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/cooperativelearning.htm
Direct Instruction: An old and widely used, highly scripted teaching method http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/methods/models/direct/
Social Learning/Modeling/Observational Learning (Albert Bandura) http://psychology.about.com/od/developmentalpsychology/a/sociallearning.htm
Universal Design: http://www.udeducation.org/ This website describes the approach and has teaching resources.
Bobby Approval for Website Accessibility: http://www.accessible.org/bobby-approved.html
ebook: Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=OmiaaeNRCX4C&oi=fnd&pg=PR4&dq=differentiated+instruction&ots=Z5_8qkF_BV&sig=yKz1rqs6DFHzuTr41JHmCgXUjnk#v=onepage&q&f=false
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
1. An old black and white video on Bad and Good Discipline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHzTUYAOkPM
2. A more modern short documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI1EslmriCE&feature=PlayList&p=1E730497882B6103&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=19
3. http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/howtoarticles/cell-phones-in-the-classroom
4. http://www.lessonplansinc.com/classroom_management_consequences.php
5. 6. The Teacher's Guide: A variety of classroom management strategies and links http://www.theteachersguide.com/ClassManagement.htm
Videos for teachers are available at these sites while YouTube is blocked in New York public schools.
1. TeacherTube http://www.teachertube.com/
2. Google videos http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=teaching&emb=0&aq=f# .
Teachers' Domain http://www.teachersdomain.org/ Various resources organized by subject area. According to the HomePage " Teachers' Domain is an extensive library of free digital media resources produced by public television, designed for classroom use and professional development."
4Teachers Family of Tools http://www.4teachers.org/tools/# Various technology-based resources for teachers . A Spanish version of the site, linked here, 4Teachers en Español , can be found in the upper right corner of their homepage.
Read, Write, Think Classroom Resources International Reading Association http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/
Structured Controversy is the best debate strategy I know of. In our text you can find information about it on pages 159 and 282. It is briefly described at http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/pd/instr/strats/structuredcon/index.html Following is a link to an article on two different models of argumentation: Rogers' model and Toulmin's models. http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/drwswebb/lore/2_2/shiyab_arg.htm
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence http://free.ed.gov/ free educational resources.
World of Teaching: Free resources submitted by teachers. http://www.worldofteaching.com/
Pamela Echols, a student in my Psychology of Learning and Teaching class during Spring, 2011 gave me this link to her wonderful education new and resource website http://mseteach.webs.com
Pair Learning Methods: Peer Assessment http://foundationcoalition.org/publications/brochures/2002peer_assessment.pdf
Guided Reciprocal Peer Questioning http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/cgi-bin/docs/ta/pdf/small_group_ex.pdf
Cognitively Guided Instruction: An alternative approach to teaching math at the elementary school level. http://www.promisingpractices.net/program.asp?programid=114
Humorous look at higher education, Father Guido Sarducci's "The 5 Minute University" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8x8eoU3L4