Resources for General Education and Special Education:
Learning and Teaching Typically Developing Children and Children with Exeptionalities from
Birth through High School
ORGANIZATIONS
Academic, Professional, Governmental, & Public Service Agencies & Associations
Federal, State, and City
- US Department of Education
- Federal Resource Center for Special Education
- Education Commission of the States
- National Governors' Association Center for Best Practices: Education and the States
- National Governors' Association Center for Best Practices: Early Childhood Education
- Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE)
- ISBE Special Education
- ISBE Special Education: Early Childhood
- Links to Illinois Schools and Organizations
- Cook County Suburban Regional Office of Education
- Chicago Public Schools (CPS)
Specialized Professional Associations (SPAs) --National, Regional, & Local Affiliates (Including SPAs with *Standards for Teaching and Learning)
Early Childhood Education
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)* --Birth through 3rd Grade
- Midwest AEYC (MWAEYC)
- Illinois AEYC (ILAEYC)
- Chicago Metro AEYC (CAEYC)
- Zero to Three: National Center on Infants & Toddlers for Parents & Professionals
- World Association for Infant Mental Health
- Illinois Association for Infant Mental Health
- Ounce of Prevention
- Center for Early Childhood Leadership
- National Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
- Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (INCCRRA)
- INCCRRA: Illinois Director Credential*
- Center for Career Development in Early Care and Education
- Center for the Childcare Workforce
Organizations Geared Toward Private Child Care Providers
- National Child Care Association*
- National Association of Child Care Professionals*
- PSO/Illinois Child Care Association
- Association of Professional Child Care Educators
Elementary Education
- Association for Childhood Education International* --K through 8th Grade
- National School-Age Care Alliance
- National Asociation of Elementary School Principals
Middle School Education
- National Middle School Association
Secondary Education
- National Asociation of Secondary School Principals
- Illinois High School Association
- Center for Adolescent Studies
Special Education
- Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
- CEC: Division for Early Childhood (DEC)*
- Illinois CEC: Division for Early Childhood
- Council of Educators for Students with Disabilities
- National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education
Other Professional Organizations and Unions
- Council of Chief State School Officers*
- National Board for Professional Teaching Standards*
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- Alliance of Work/Life Professionals
- National Education Association
- Illinois Education Association
- American Federation of Teachers
- Illinois Federation of Teachers
- National Alliance of Black School Educators
Early Childhood Initiatives and Research
- Build Initiative --Multistate partnership to improve early care and education
- Illinois Early Learning Project
- International Society for Infant Studies
- National Institute for Early Childhood Research
Basic Skills and Content Area SPAs
- International Reading Association*
- National Institute for Literacy
- National Council of Teachers of English*
- Illinois Association of Teachers of English
- American Library Association
- Reading Pathfinder
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
- National Council for the Social Studies*
- National Council for History Education
- Organization of American Historians
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics*
- National Science Teachers Association*
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education
- The National Academies: Center for Education
- Illinois Math & Science Academy: Center for Problem-Based Learning
- International Society for Technology in Education*
Fine Arts - National Art Education Association*
- Americans for the Arts
- Arts Education Partnership
- Urban Gateways Center for Arts Education
- National Association for Music Education*
Physical Education
- American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
- Illinois Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
- National Association for Sport and Physical Education*
- PE Central
Health and Safety
- The National Academies
- National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
- Institute of Medicine
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Child Life Council
- American Medical Association
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- National Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition
- Healthy Steps for Young Children Program
- Bright Futures: Health Supervision from Birth through Adolescence
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
Global, Multicultural, and Bilingual Education
- Council for Global Education
- National Association for Multicultural Education
- National Association for Bilingual Education
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
- Illinois Association for Multilingual Multicultural Edication
- Multicultural Center for Research and Practice
- McGraw-Hill: Multicultural SuperSite
Equity, Justice, and Children At-Risk --See also Human Rights and Advocacy
- National Coalition for Equity in Education
- Educational Equity Concepts
- Consortium for Equity in Standards and Testing
- National Council for Urban Peace and Justice
- Network of Educators on the Americas
- National Center for Children in Poverty
- World Bank Group: Early Child Development
- Early Head Start National Resource Center
- Department of Health and Human Services: Head Start Bureau
- National Head Start Association
- Illinois Head Start Association
- National Even Start Family Literacy Association
- Early Childhood Quality Network
Special Needs
- US Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
- US Office of Special Education Programs
- Federal Interagency Coordinating Council
- US Dept. of Education Office for Civil Rights
- National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research
- National Alliance Of The Disabled (NAOTD)
- National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
- National Directory of Children, Youth, and Families Services
- Academy for Educational Development: Disabilities Studies and Services Center
- Family Village: Global Community of Disability-Related Resources
- National Organization for Rare Disorders
- Family & Advocates Partnership for Education
- The Association for Social Justice and Human Rights (TASH): Illinois
- American Association on Mental Retardation
- The Arc of the United States: National Organization on Mental Retardation
- President's Committee on Mental Retardation
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Learning Disabilities Association of America
- International Dyslexia Association
- Attention Deficit Disorder Association
- Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)
- National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice: Improving Services to Children and Youth with Emotional and Behavioral Problems
- Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies
- National Association of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University
- National Federation of the Blind
- Perkins School for the Blind
- Illinois Advocates for the Deaf-Blind
- Autism Society of America
- Cure Autism Now Foundation
- National Down Syndrome Association
- Sickle Cell Disease Association of America
- Epilepsy Foundation of America
- United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Chicago
- Spina Bifida Association of America
- Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
- National Spinal Cord Injury Association
- AIDS Education Global Information System
- Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation
- Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association of America
- National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- March of Dimes
Illinois Resources
- Council for Disability Rights
- Family Resource Center on Disabilities
- StarNet
- Project Choices
Gifted/Talented
- National Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development
- National Association for Gifted Children
- Gifted Child Society
- Illinois Association for Gifted Children
- Gifted Development Center
- Odyssey of the Mind --Creative Problem-Solving Competitions
- Odyssey of the Mind State Affiliates
Learning Labs - Stanford Learning Lab
- Phi Delta Kappa International
- New Horizons for Learning
- 21st Century Learning Initiative
Foundations
- Aims Education Foundation
- George Lucas Educational Foundation
- McCormick Tribune Foundation
- Kohl Foundation
- United Way
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- McArthur Foundation
- Carnegie Corporation
- Annenberg Foundation
- Pew Charitable Trusts
- Spencer Foundation
- Arthur Vining Davis Foundation
- Foundations with Educational Funding in the USA
Progressive/Child-Centered
- Center for Dewey Studies
- Jean Piaget Society
Pedagogy
- Association of Constructivist Teaching
- Association for Direct Instruction
Ethics and Conflict Resolution - Educators for Social Responsibility
- Peace Education Foundation
- National Center for Conflict Resolution Education
- Conflict Resolution in Education Network
- Character Education Partnership
- Association for Moral Education
- Bureau for Essential Ethics Education
- One World, Our World: Global Education and Conflict Resolution
Educational Improvement
- The Education Resource Institute
- Education International
- Enabling Education Network
- Institute for Student Achievement
- Best Practices in Education
- National Center on Education and the Economy
Child Development
- National Academy for Child Development
- Society for Research in Child Development
- Society for Research on Adolescence
- National Black Child Development Institute
- National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education
Play
- International Association for the Child's Right to Play
- American Association for the Child's Right to Play
- Association for Play Therapy
- The Theraplay Institute
- National Lekotek Center
Families: Parents as Partners in Education
- Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education
- Families and Work Institute
- National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education
- Family Research Council
- National Parent Information Network
- National Parent Information Network Illinois
- Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights
- National PTA
- PTO Today
LAWS, REGULATIONS, STANDARDS, and ETHICS
Resources for Compliance with Mandates and Standards Set by Governmental Regulatory Agencies and Professional Boards
Constitutional Rights: Federal and State Legislation
- Declaration of Independence
- Constitution of the United States, Bill of Rights, & Other Amendments
- State Constitutions
- US Supreme Court
- US House of Representatives
- US Senate
- The White House
- Library of Congress
- SearchGov.com: Branches of Federal Government, Agencies, and Links to State & Local Government Sites
- Pending Legislation
Illinois Laws
- Illinois Compiled Statutes
- Illinois General Assembly
- Legislative Search by Keyword or Bill Number
- Legislative Search by Bill Number Only
- Illinois Senate and House: Bills and Resolutions
Education --See also School Law
- MegaLaw --Federal and State Education Laws
- Statutes, Regulations, & Case Law
- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 --See also Public Policy Debates
- Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
- Improving America's Schools Act of 1994
- Illinois Learning Standards
- Chicago Public Schools: Policy Handbook by Date
Special Education: IDEA
- IDEA 97: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997
- IDEA Law and Regs
- Part C of IDEA: Early Intervention for Infants and Toddlers
- IDEA Regulations
- A Users Guide to the 1999 IDEA Regulations
- The Education of Children and Youth with Special Needs: What Do the Laws Say?
- Implementing IDEA's Principles --Power Point Presentation
- Illinois Special Education Rules and Regulations
- Illinois Special Education Categories
- IL Class Size/Age Range Requirements
- Illinois Early Intervention Services System Act
- Illinois School Districts’ Responsibilities Toward Early Intervention (EI) Services
- Corey H.
s
- Special Ed Law: Regular Teachers' Rights in Special Education
- A Parent's Guide -- The Educational Rights of Students with Disabilities by the Illinois State Board of Education
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
- Least Restrictive Environment: What Is It? --Nebraska Department of Education Special Populations Office
- Least Restrictive Environment Clearinghouse
- Illinois State Board of Education Policy Statement Least Restrictive Environment
IEPs --See also Individualized Education Programs: IFSPs, IEPs, and 504 Plans
- Individualized Education Programs and IDEA 97
- Sample IEP Goals
- Exemplar of Individual Education Plans for Students with Disabilities
- Guidelines for Completing Sample IEP
- Individualized Education Programs: The IEP
- Sample IEP for Child with Autism/PDD
Section 504 --See also Individualized Education Programs: IFSPs, IEPs, and 504 Plans
- Office of Civil Rights Pamphlets on Section 504, ADA, and Education
- Writing a Legally Sound Section 504 Accommodation Plan
- 504 Plan FAQs
- How I Got a 504 Accommodation Plan
- Sample Section 504 Plan
- Sample 504 Plan
Disability Rights --See also Human Rights/Anti-Discrimination in Employment, Education, etc., including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Americans
with Disabilities Act Document Center: ADA Statute, Regulations, ADAAG (Americans
with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines), Federally Reviewed Tech
Sheets, and Other Assistance Documents
- Child Care Centers and the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Child Care for Children with Special Needs
- Social Security Administration: Social Security Disability Income Programs
Abuse and Neglect
- Illinois Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act
- Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting FAQs
- Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
- Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect: Facts and Resources
- Leaving Children Home Alone
Compensatory Education
- Linking Standards and Engaged Learning in the Early Years
- Illinois "Start Early" Campaign
- Head Start Regulations and Performance Standards
- Early Childhood Follow-Through Research Institute
- Effective School Practices, Focus: What Was That Project Follow Through?
Legal Reources
- Legal Resources about Special Ed and Disabilities
- EdLaw
- WrightsLaw
Adoption and Immigration
- US Department of State: Office of Children's Issues
- US State Department: International Adoption
- Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS): Laws, Regulations, and Guides
Freedom of Information and Privacy Rights --See also Children's Rights and Safety on the Internet
- Freedom of Information Act
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- Privacy Laws in the United States
- US Privacy Laws
- Privacy Laws by State
- Privacy International
Education Goals and Standards --See also Teacher Education Standards
- National Education Goals
- NCTE/IRA Standards for the English Language Arts
- NCTM Standards for Math
- National Science Education Standards
- National Educational Technology Standards Project
- National Standards for Arts Education
- MCREL K-12 Content Knowledge: Standards and Benchmarks
- Illinois Learning Standards
- Illinois Early Learning Standards --Ages 3 - 5
- Illinois Performance Descriptors
- Chicago Academic Standards and Curriculum Framework Statements
Teacher Liability and Codes of Ethical Conduct
- Teacher Liability: What We Don't Know Might Hurt Us
- Educational Malpractice in Illinois
- NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct
- NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct: Supplement for Early Childhood Adult Educators
- NEA Code of Ethics of the Education Profession
THEORY-RESEARCH-PRACTICE
Full-Text & Scholarly Articles, Academic Treatises, Professional Commentaries, Graduate Level Student Critiques, etc.
History and Philosophy of Education
- Module One: History and Philosophy of Education
- History of Education: Selected Moments of the 20th Century
- Historical Foundations of American Education: Timeline and WWW Sites
- Educational History and Philosophy Sites
- History of American Education Web Project
- Philosophy of Education: Philosophers
- Philosophy of Education Recommended Readings
- Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Education
- A Time Capsule of Training and Learning
- Pioneers in Education --Power Point Presentation
- America's System of Public Education: Historical Outline
- Greek Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
- Plato and Philosophy of Education
- Comenius
- John Locke
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- Rousseau and Pestalozzi
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Froebel's Philosophy and Materials
- Mind and Body: René Descartes to William James
- Thomas Jefferson and Education
- Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
- E. L. Thorndike: Connectionism
- B. F. Skinner: Operant Conditioning
- Maria Montessori: An Historical Perspective
- Dewey: My Pedagogic Creed
- Dewey: Democracy and Education
- Francis W. Parker's Concentration Pedagogy: Education to Free the Human Spirit
- Progressive Education
- Piaget
- Vygotsky
- Beyond the Individual-Social Antimony in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky
- Gesell
- Erikson
- Bertrand Russell
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Rudolf Steiner
- Open Education in America
- Foucalt Essays & Interviews
- Mortimer Adler
- Issues in Freirean Pedagogy
- Habermas and Philosophy of Education
- Kuhn and Philosophy of Education
- Growing Without Schooling --Interview with John Holt
- Urie Bronfenbrenner --Ecological Systems
- A Hundred Ways of Thinking --Loris Malaguzzi's Reggio Emilia
- E.D. Hirsch
- An Overview of Humanistic Education
- A Brief Introduction to Holistic Education
- Links to Online Philosophy Texts
- Developing an Educational Philosophy: Resources
Learning Theories and Principles
- Instructional Development Timeline: Pre-1920 - 2000s
- Learning Theory
- Learning Theories
- Principles of Learning
- Learning Theories and Models of Teaching
- Models of Learners
- Instructional Design and Learning Theory
- Social Learning Theory --Bandura
Behaviorism and Direct Instruction --See also Learning Theories: Behaviorism
- John Watson
- Pavlov
- B.F. Skinner
- Behaviorist Questions, Views on Teaching, and Views on Learning and the Learner
- Principles of Direct Instruction
- Direct Instruction
- Siegfried Engelmann and Direct Instruction --Head Start and Project Follow-Through Studies on DI
- Direct Instruction: A Transactional Model
- Precision Teaching and Direct Instruction
- Core Knowledge Lesson Plans
- Success For All
Socio-Cultural and Cognitive Constructivism
- Constructivist Theory
- A Review of the Literature on Dissemination and Knowledge Utilization: Knowledge Use as a Learning Process
- Social Development Theory: Vygotsky
- Dialogic Inquiry in Education: Building on the Legacy of Vygotsky
- Vygotsky Project
- Zone of Proximal Development
- Constructivist Theory: Bruner
- Constructivist Learning Theory
- On Constructivism
- In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms: Honoring the Learning Process
- Situated Learning
- Critical Issue: Building on Prior Knowledge and Meaningful Student Contexts/Cultures
- Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics
- Meaningful Learning Research Group Articles
Traditional & Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
- Educational Theory Handbook: A Collection of Theories and Theorists: An Aid to the Student of Educational Theory
- Storming the Citadel: Reading Theory Critically
- Looking Toward the 21st Century: Challenges of Educational Theory and Practice
- Rethinking Education
Typical and Atypical Learners
- The Animal School Parable --Value of Individual Differences, Diversity, and Nurturing Strengths
- Misunderstood Minds
- All Kinds of Minds
Development
- Developmental Principles and Glossary of Terms --Gesell, Erikson, Piaget, Kohlberg, Gilligan, & Vygotsky
- Child Development Basics
- Classic Theories of Child Development --Freud, Mahler, & Erikson
- Theories of Child Development and Learning
- "How Are the Children?" Report on Early Childhood Development and Learning
- Nature / Nurture
- Normal and Atypical Development
- Basic Concepts of Infant Behavior and Development
- Child and Adolescent Development Resources
- Housen's Stage Model of Aesthetic Development
Physical Domain --Biological
- Biological-Maturation
- Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
- G. Stanley Hall
- Gesell's Maturational Theory
- Prenatal Development
- Developmental Milestones
- Stages of Motor Development
- Motor Skills Disorder
- The Bobath Centre
- The Feldenkrais Method
Cognitive Domain --Intellectual
- The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor
- Cognitive Development
- Cognitive Development: Applications of Piagetian Theory
- Jean Piaget's Theory of Development
- Activities to Promote Children's Cognitive Development
- Cognitive Development and Related Links
- Cognitive Development and Intelligence
- Mind Tools
- Cognitive Development Links
- Speech and Language Development in Infants and Young Children
- Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle and Late Childhood
Moral Development and Character Education --See also Universal Values
- Moral Development
- Character Education
- Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
- Carol Gilligan's, "In a Different Voice"
- Framework for Universal Principles of Ethics
- Integrating Structure and Content in Moral Education
- Studies in Moral Development and Education
- Moral and Character Development
Affective Domain --Social-Emotional
- Outline of Social-Emotional Development in Infancy
- Brief Outline of the Theory of Attachment
- Attachment Theory
- Affective Development: The Emergence of Reciprocity and Moral Feelings --Power Point Presentation
- Comparison of Mahler and Stern's Theories of the Development of the Self
- What Does Heinz Kohut Mean by the "Self"? Associations on a Theme
- Mahler, Kohut, and Infant Research: Some Comparisons
- Stages of Social Development
- Emotions and Emotional Intelligence
- Emotional Intelligence: What Does It Really Mean? --Daniel Goleman et al
- Primary Prevention: Educational Approaches to Enhance Social and Emotional Learning
- School as a Context of Early Adolescents' Academic and Social-Emotional Development: A Summary of Research Findings
- Positive Social/Emotional Development and Prevention of Psychosocial/Mental Health Problems
- Distinctions between Self-Esteem and Narcissism: Implications for Practice
- Caring Teachers.com
- Center for Social and Emotional Education
- Social-Emotional Development Journal Articles
- Articles on Social Skills
Resilience: Risks and Protective Factors
- Enhancing Resilience and Protective Factors
- Promoting Resiliency in Families and Children
Social Competence
- Assessing Young Children's Social Competence
- Keeping Toddler's Attention May Help Develop Social Competence
- Developing Social Competence in Children
- The Role of Appropriate Scaffolding in the Development of Social Competence
- Social Competence and the Child with Learning Disabilities
- Developing Social Competence for All Students
Infants and Toddlers --See also Development, Psychosocial Development, Attachment, and Bonding, and Temperament and Personality
- National Institute of Health/Medline: Infant and Toddler Development
- National Network for Child Care (NNCC) Child Development Database: Infants and Toddlers
- NNCC: Infant and Toddler Care
- Infant Temperament
- Child Temperament --Based on Research of Thomas and Chess
- What Is Temperament and How Is It Measured?
- Assessment of Temperament
- Temperament.com
- Dyad Observational Assessment Tool: Adult-Child Interactions
- Assessment of Developmental Milestones
- Infant/Toddler Care
- Infant/Toddler Curriculum
- Program for Infant/Toddler Caregivers
- Resources for Infant Educators --Magda Gerber
- The Emotional Life of the Toddler --Alicia Lieberman
- Infant Development: Even Infants Need Their Solitude
- Toddler Time: Narcissistic Defenses
- The Feldenkrais Method: Developmental Integration Games
- Smart Babies --Articles and activities
- Games for Newborns/Infants: Hands-On Games forBabies
- Infant/Toddler Lesson Plans: Transportation Theme
Attachment --See also Psychosocial: Attachment and Bonding
- Attachment Research and Theory
- Attachment Research: Mom-Child Relations Withstand Day Care
- Family Relations Institute: Attachment Theory
- Attachment
- Attachment Theory Web Site
- Attachment Research Center
- Attachment Home Page
- An Ethological Approach to Personality Development: The Attachment Theory
- Bowlby/Ainsworth Timeline
- Bonding: A Simple Wonder
- Bonding: Recent Observations That Alter Perinatal Care
- Parent-Child Bonding and Family Functioning in Depressed Children
and Children at High Risk and Low Risk for Future Depression --Dan Stein et al
- Secure
Base Support for Social Competence: Attachment Q-sort Correlates of Security
and Social Competence in a Sample of African-American Children Attending
Head Start
- Articles on Child Abuse and Neglect
- Abuse
Play and Learning
- What Are Children Learning When They Play?
- Developmental Stages of Play (Parten)
- Stages of Block Play
- Stages of Art Development
- Playing With and Without Words
- Play --Power Point Presentation
- Supporting Rich Play in Preschool Education
- Exploring Socio-Dramatic Play and Prop Boxes
- Culture and Development in Children's Play
- Play and Cultural Diversity
- Toy Play in Infancy and Early Childhood: Normal Development and Special Considerations for Children with Disabilities
- Stages of Play Development in Delayed Children
Learning Readiness and School Readiness (Ensuring Success in School)
- National Education Goals 2000 --Goal #1: "By the year 2000: All children in America will start school ready to learn"
- Assessing Readiness --by Sam Meisels
- The Inappropriate Use of School "Readiness" Tests --Policy Statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Getting Schools Ready for Children: The Other Side of the Readiness Goal
- Getting Schools Ready for Children
- Ten Keys to Ready Schools
- Readiness for School or for School Culture?
- Ready or Not. . .Preparing Young Children for the Classroom
- What Should Young Children Be Learning?
- Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers
- Protecting Children from Inappropriate Practices
- Readiness for Kindergarten
- Entering Kindergarten: Findings from the Condition of Education 2000
- America's Kindergartners
- The
Elementary School Performance and Adjustment of Children Who Enter Kindergarten
Late or Repeat Kindergarten: Findings From National Surveys Effects of Delaying
or Repeating Kindergarten
- ReadyWeb
Planning and Reflection
- Planning Processes: For Whom? For What?
- The Instructional Planning Process
- Thematic Webbing and the Curriculum Standards in the Primary Grades
- Understanding Objectives Tutorial
- Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Cognitive Domain
- Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor Domains
- Behavioral Objectives
- Writing Goals and Objectives
- How to Write Behavioral Objectives
- Writing Behavioral Objectives
- Instructional Objectives
- Planning Lessons
- Lesson Planning Resources
- Schon's Educating the Reflective Practitioner
- The Getting of Wisdom: What Critically Reflective Teaching Is and Why It's Important
Dispositions
- Dispositions: Definitions and Implications for Early Childhood Practice --Lilian Katz
- Dispositions as Educational Goals --Lilian Katz
Learning Environments
- Varied Settings for Teaching --Power Point Presentation
- What Is the Prepared Environment?
- Creating Optimal Learning Environments
- Learning Centers in the Kindergarten Classroom
- Constructivist Learning Environments
- Situative Design Issues for Interactive Learning Environments: The Problem of Group Coherence
- Situated Cognition and Learning Environments: Roles, Structures, and Implications for Design
- Creating Active Learning Environments
- Youth Motivation Using Natural Learning Environments
- Articles on Learning Environments
Community of Learners
- Creating a Community of Learners
- Early Years Are Learning Years: Building Positive Relationships Through Communication
- Establishing
a Community of Learners: The Use of Information Technology (IT) as an Effective
Learning Tool in Rural Primary or Elementary Schools
- Supporting Student Learning in Schools for Thought Environments
Instructional Methods
- Which Teaching Style Should I Use?
- Teaching and Learning Models and Approaches
- Instructional Strategies --Power Point Presentation
- Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Methods
- Models of Instruction
- Instructional Design Models
- Task Analysis and Chaining
- Examples of Task Analyses
- Skinner's Reinforcement Theory
- Gagné's Contributions to the Study of Instruction
- Mastery Learning
- Curriculum Compacting
- Reciprocal Teaching
- Ausubel's Meaningful Learning and Advance Organizers
- Taba's Inductive Thinking Model
- Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Domain
Strategies to Facilitate Concept Formation
- Bruner's Concept Attainment
- Concept Attainment Model: A Viable Component for Elementary Science Curriculum
- Concept Attainment Model --Power Point Presentation
- Concept Attainment Strategy
- Concept Mapping
- Index of Graphic Organizers
Curricular Approaches
- Curriculum and Environments: Educational Approaches
- Curricular and Instructional Patterns in Regular Classrooms
- Curriculum Web
- Creative Curriculum
- Layered Curriculum
- What Does Research Say About Montessori?
- Emergent Curriculum: Tune In to Your Children's Interests
- Following Children's Lead in the Dance of Real Learning
Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning: Integrated Thematic Units
- Integrated Curriculum
- Teaching Interdisciplinary Thematic Units in Language Arts
- Integrated Themes and Lesson Plans
- Prop Boxes and Thematic Centers
- Community Helpers: Careers --Prop Boxes
- Patti's Preschool Resources: Themes
- Thematic Units for Primary Grades
- Integrated Curriculum in the Middle School
- Secondary Education and School-to-Work: Developing an Applied and Integrated Curriculum
- Integrated Curriculum Design Packet
Active Learning, Problem-Based Learning, and Inquiry-Based Learning
- Activity Theory
- Active Learning
- High/Scope Research
- Teaching for Understanding: Educating Students for Performance
- Project, Problem, and Inquiry-Based Learning
- What Is Problem-Based Learning?
- What Is Inquiry-Based Learning?
- Inquiry Education Research
- Inquiry-Based Learning and Teaching: Math and Science Through Museum Collections
- Using the Internet to Promote Inquiry-Based Learning
- The Inquiry Page
- Center for Inquiry-Based Learning: Science Projects
- Supportive Inquiry-Based Learning Environment Project: K-12 Science
Reggio Emilia and Project Approach
- Reflections on the Reggio Emilia Approach --Edited by Lilian Katz & Bernard Cesarone
- Reggio Emilia: Catalyst for Change and Conversation
- The Reggio Emilia Approach
- Reggio Emilia Publications, Videos, and Other Resources
- Reggio Emilia Links
- The Hundred Languages of Children Exhibit Schedule
- Reggio Emilia Resources
- Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners. A Collaboration Between Reggio Emilia and Harvard
- Reggio Emilia and Project Approach Links
- The Project Approach: Links to Internet Sites
- Dynamic Aims: The Use of Long-term Projects in Early Childhood Classrooms in Light of Dewey's Educational Philosophy
- Living the Project Approach with Young Children
- Project Approach --Sylvia Chard's Site
- The Project Approach --by Lilian Katz
- A Review of Research on Project-Based Learning
- The Project Approach: Meeting the State Standards
- The Contribution of Documentation to the Quality of Early Childhood Education --by Katz & Chard
- Representations
- What Is Project-Based Learning (PBL)?
- Project-Based Learning Web Ring
Self-Directed Learning, Engaged Learning, & Time On-Task
- The Nature and Nurture of the Self-Directed Learner
- Engaged Learning
- Meaningful, Engaged Learning
- Handbook of Engaged Learning Projects
- What Can Teachers Do to Cause Learning?
- Instructional Time and Teaching Subjects During the First Four Years of Primary Ed
- The Use of Time in the Classroom
- Increasing Time On-Task in the Classroom
- Increasing Your ADHD Students' Time On-Task
Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)
- Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 --NAEYC Position Statement: Overview of DAP
- What Are Appropriate Goals for Early Childhood Education? --by Lilian Katz
- Developmentally Appropriate Practice: What Does Research Tell Us?
- Child-Initiated Learning Activities for Young Children Living in Poverty --by Lawrence Schweinhart
- Recent Research Supports Developmentally Appropriate Practice In The Primary Grades
- Articles on DAP
Alternative Views on Contemporary Practices (Re:
DAP, Emergent Curriculum, Child-Centered Teaching, Situated Learning, &
Constructivist Methods)
- Developmentalism: An Obscure but Pervasive Restriction on Educational Improvement
- Direct Instruction Is Developmentally Appropriate
- Child-Directed Teaching Methods: A Discriminatory Practice of Western Education
- Applications & Misapplications of Cognitive Psychology to Math Education --by John R. Anderson et al.
- An Address to the California State Board of Education --by E. D. Hirsch
Basic Skills and Content Areas: Language Arts --See also Basic Skills and Content Area Resources and Dyslexia
Receptive and Expressive Language/Listening and Speaking
- Ages and Stages: Developmental Milestones for Receptive and Expressive Language Acquisition
- Early Childhood Growth Chart: What Many Children Do In Language
- Stages of Oral Language Development
- Activities to Help Children Learn About Language
Reading --See also Reading Strategies
- Language and Literacy Development
- Discretion in the Translation of Research to Policy: A Case from Beginning Reading
- Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children
- Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community: Emerging Literacy: Linking Social Competence to Learning
- Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children
- Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success
- Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
- Reading First Initiative
- Early Reading First Initiative
- Balanced Reading Instruction
- HeadsUp! Reading --Distance Learning
- Sponsor Findings From Project Follow Through
- SRA Direct Instruction Programs --Including DISTAR
- Reading Recovery
- Wilson Reading System
- Dolch Word List, Resources, and Bibliography
- Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Curriculum Areas
- Seven Myths About Literacy in the US
- Nowadays, Even the Illiterates Read and Write --by Berliner
- What the Science Says: Effective Reading Interventions for Kids with Learning Disabilities
- Components of Effective Reading/Writing Programs
- Words in the Brain: Reading Program Spurs Neural Rewrite in Kids
Writing
- Stages of Pre-Writing Skill Development
- Stages of Written Language Development
- Stages of Writing Development
- Five Stages of Writing and Parent Involvement
Math --See also Dyscalculia
- Stages of Math Development
- Math Education Articles
- Math Projects
- Math Magic
- Ask Dr. Math
- Let's Do Math: Online Tools
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
- Metric Conversion Charts
- Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System) Adopted by US for Use in Foreign Trade
- Kitchen Conversion Calculators
- Math Lesson Plans, Themes, and Units
- The Math Forum: Lesson Plans
- Math Lesson Plans K-12
- Math Lesson Plans Page
- Math Glyphs K-6
- National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century
- Third International Math and Science Study
Science
- Science Misconceptions Research and Some Implications for the Teaching of Science to Elementary School Students
- Science Misconceptions
- "Science Myths" in K-6 Textbooks and Popular Culture
- Bad Science
- The Learning Cycle as a Tool for Planning Science Instruction
- The Scientific Method
- Teachers Helping Teachers: Scientific Method Lesson Plans
- BugInABox.com: Why Are There Two Names? --Scientific Classification
- Hanford Science Inquiry Project
- The Why Files: Science Behind the News
- Language Development and Science Inquiry: The Head Start on Science and Communication Program
- Teaching Science Concepts to Children: The Role of Analogies
- How Stuff Works
- How Things Work
- How Things Work: Ask an Expert --Flashlights, Batteries, Circuits, etc.
- Series and Parallel Circuits Lesson
- K-12 Science Lesson Plans
- Science Articles
- Science Magazine
- Scientific American
- Scientific American Frontiers
Social Studies: Diversity
- Illinois State Resources for Educating Linguistically & Culturally Diverse Students
- Diversity Database
- Center for Diversity in Education
- Multicultural Pavilion
- A Different World: Children's Perceptions of Race and Class in Media
- American Indian Studies and Related Issues
- African American Links
- Latin American Links
- AskAsia
- Diversity Links
- Literature on Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism
Children's Rights and Equity in Education
- UNESCO, International Bureau of Education: Children's Rights in Education
- Equity Education On Line: Research
- National Coalition for Equity in Education: Perspectives on Equity
- Education, Poverty, and Inequality
- On Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools --Conversation with Jonathan Kozol
-
Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance: Issues and Perspectives (1999) --Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
- The Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching --by Martin Haberman
- How Should We Group to Achieve Excellence with Equity?
Teacher Assistance Teams (TAT) and School Based Problem Solving (SBPS): Prereferral Supportive Services for Children At-Risk
- Facilitating Teacher Assistance Teams
- Syracuse Schools School-Based Intervention Teams
- Chicago Public Schools (CPS) School-Based Problem Solving (SBPS) Manual
- Designing Effective Prereferral Interventions
- CPS Evaluation Protocol Manual
Early Intervention
- Illinois Department of Human Services: Early Intervention
- Provider Connections: Illinois Early Intervention Credentialing
- Illinois Early Childhood Special Education Resources
- Tools for Early Identification and Intervention- 0-5 Years --Assessments and Intervention Strategies
- The Greenspan Floor Time Model
- Lovaas Institute for Early Intervention
- Early Intervention Resources
- Early Intervention Related Links
Exceptionalities: Gifted, Talented, and Creative --See also Intelligence
- Children Who Are Gifted, Talented, and Creative --Includes Numerous Additional Links
- Giftedness and the Gifted: What's It All About?
- National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent
- The Miseducation of Our Gifted Children
Learning Disabilities --See also Additional Resources and Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury
- IDEA Definition, Prevalence of Specific Learning Disabilities, etc.
- Learning Disabilities: Decade of the Brain
- Learning Disabilities: Special Education for Students with Disabilities --by G. Reid Lyon
- NF-1 and Learning Disabilities --by Denckla
- How to Teach Students with Learning Disabilities in a Mainstream Class
- The Syndrome of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: Clinical Description and Applied Aspects
- Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities: A Review of the Issues
- The Link Between Learning Disabilities and Behavior
- CDC Study Confirms ADHD/Learning Disability Link
- Controversial Treatments for LD
Reading Disabilities--See also Reading and Effective Interventions
Dyslexia, Phonemic Awareness and Phonological Processing, and Controversies Around Vision Training
- The Neurology of Reading Disorders
- Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities: A Guide for Teachers and Parents
- Children's Reading Disability Attributed To Brain Impairment
- Non-Impaired vs Dyslexic Imaging of Brain Activation During Reading
- Researchers Map Physical Basis of Dyslexia
- The Neurobiology of Reading and Dyslexia --by Shaywitz & Shaywitz
- Scientific American: Dyslexia eBook --by Shaywitz
- Functional Disruption in the Organization of the Brain for Reading in Dyslexia --by Shaywitz et al.
- Dyslexia Linked to Region of Brain
- Procedures Concerning Dyslexia and Related Disorders
- Connectionist Models of Surface and Deep Dyslexia
- Surface Dyslexia
- The Phonological Model of Dyslexia
- How Do We Read? --Power Point Presentation
- Reading Disorders in Children
- Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children: Controversial Therapies
- What Is Vision Therapy?
- Harvard Neurology Web Forum: On Vision Therapy
- Optician's Association of America: Separating Myth from Fact
- Learning
Disabilities, Dyslexia, and Vision: A Joint Statement of the American Academy
of Pediatrics, American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
and American Academy of Ophthalmology
- 2000 American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting: Reading Disability Update
- Academic Interventions for Children with Dyslexia Who Have Phonological Core Deficits
- National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
- Preventing Early Learning Failure
Hyperlexia
- What Is Hyperlexia?
- Hyperlexia: Outcomes, Diagnosis, and Educational Management
- General Information about Hyperlexia
- Hyperlexia and Related Disorders
- Hyperlexia and Language Disorders
- Hyperlexia Articles
Math Disabilities
Dyscalculia
- Math Learning Disabilities
- Dyscalculia: What Is Dyscalculia and What Strategies Can Help?
- Misunderstood Minds: Difficulties with Math --PBS Special
- Learning Disabilities in Mathematics
- Educational Aspects of Mathematics Disabilities
- Adapting Mathematics Instruction in the General Education Classroom for Students with Mathematics Disabilities
- Mathematics Instruction for Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities
- Math Skills
- The Math Page: Math Remediation and Learning Strategies
- Dyscalculia.org
- The Dyscalculia Site
Auditory Processing Disorder
- Auditory Processing Disorder
- Auditory Processing Deficits: How Common? How Remediable?
- Auditory Processing FAQs
- Central Auditory Processing Disorders - An Overview of Assessment and Management Practices
NonVerbal Learning Disabilities (NVLD)
- The Misunderstood Child: The Child With a Nonverbal Learning Disorder
- Understanding Learning Differences: Confronting the Puzzle of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
- Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities: An Emerging Profile
- The Syndrome of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: Clinical Description and Applied Aspects
- Understanding Nonverbal Learning Disability (NVLD)
- What Are Nonverbal Learning Disabilities?
- Q and A with Byron Rourke --Principal NVLD Researcher
- Nonverbal Learning Disorders
- Children with Spina Bifida: NonVerbal Learning Disabilities
- Children's Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities Scale
- NonVerbal Learning Disabilities Articles
Abuse and Neglect --See also Child Abuse and Neglect
- Altered Brain Development Following Global Neglect in Early Childhood --by Bruce Perry
- Neglect: Feral Children
- Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect
Individual and Group Guidance: Antisocial Behavior and Violence Prevention
- School Violence from the Perspective of William Glasser
- Spanking by Parents and Subsequent Antisocial Behavior of Children
- Preventing Conduct Problems in Head Start Children: Strengthening Parenting Competencies
- Preventing Anti-Social Behavior in Disabled and At-Risk Students
- Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: a Sourcebook for Community Action
