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Annenberg Media’s multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Media videos exemplify excellent teaching.
Offers a complete view of the institutions, people, processes, roles, and philosophies in educational practice in the United States and throughout the world. Features biographies of influential educators; profiles of historic colleges and universities and of organizations active in the field; and an appendix of full text source documents, including education related legislation, international treaties, and testing methods.
Use this as a supplement to Mental Measurements Yearbook to find descriptions, reviews, and ordering information for thousands of psychological tests.
This 3-volume country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. This updated and expanded edition gives users up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and high-interest topics such as technological advances.
International
This is a highly useful site if you are looking for international comparative education data for developing countries. You can, for instance, easily call up and compare the literacy rates in one country with another.
This website for a program of the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences National Center for Education Statistics contains two helpful sections: international indicators and international surveys and assessments.
This 3-volume country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. This updated and expanded edition gives users up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and high-interest topics such as technological advances.
Australia
Covers grading systems, higher education, technical and vocational education, teacher education, and school education.
Brazil
China
Official site for China’s Ministry of Education (MOE). The menu on the left has details on: Laws and regulations, planning and statistics, basic education, higher education, vocational education, international cooperation, and a list of Chinese higher education institutions.
Denmark
Cirius is a Danish agency “supporting internationalization of education and training in Denmark.” This link has a good overview of various aspects of the Danish education system with some nice charts and more detailed information. Click on “English” in the upper right for page translation.
Official Ministry of Education fact sheets. Includes: The education system, finances, basic school, youth education, higher education, and more.
France
Lenghty PDF document from the Ministere Education Nationale giving a good overview of the system and detailing education expenditure, personnel, length of schooling, priority education and more.
The Ministere site itself is only in French, so this may be the best document on French education in English you can find.
This site deals mostly with higher education institutions in France. There is some mention of teacher education and qualifications as well.
Germany
Hong Kong
India
Official Indian DOE Annual Report. Menu links to PDF sections on Administration, Policy, Elementary Education and more.
Gives basic overview of Indian Education System. Sections on: Administration and Funding, Primary and Secondary Education, Colleges and Universities, Education and Society,
Source: James Heitzman and Robert L. Worden, editors. India: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1995.
Israel
Japan
More detailed report of various aspects of the Japanese Education system: Statistics, curriculum, facilities, etc.
Official goverment site on education in Japan. Discusses elementary and secondary education, higher education, lifelong learning policy, and more.
Jordan
Good brief overview and discussion of the development of Jordan’s education system.
Note on the Source: This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army.
Pacific Islands
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PADDLE facilitates the sharing of best practice and experience amongst the fifteen Pacific countries of the Project. The focus of PADDLE is to provide access to all relevant education policy, planning and development material from the participating countries. Most of these documents have previously been unavailable in digital form.
Russia
Discusses Russian education since the fall of the Soviet Union. Seems to have been published in the 1990s, so more current information may be needed to supplement this discussion.
Source:
| Glenn E. Curtis, ed. Russia: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1996. |
Gives good brief overview of Russian education system, includes: Structure of education system, admissions to higher education, student life, and international cooperation and exchanges.
South Africa
United Kingdom
This document provides a nice succinct overview of the UK’s primary, secondary, and higher education levels. Also covers assessment, academic year, and a narrative of a typical day in a UK school.
No Child Left Behind
Philosophy and Theory
This is a quick assessment of your opinions on a number of issues related to the philosophy of education. It indicates which philosophies you may have an affinity for and suggests a number of theorists to explore. Schools of thought include: Essentialism, Behaviorism, Progressivism, Existentialism, Perennialism, and Reconstructionism.
Constructivism
This is a concise, well-written exposition of constructivism beginning with an explanation of the concept and moving toward practical applications in the classroom. Includes critical perspectives. Be sure to check out the “Expert Interview” section for a video interview with educational theorist Jaqueline Grennon Brooks.
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Existentialism
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Idealism
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Multiple Intelligences
Pragmatism
Realism
Bloom's Taxonomy
Marzano
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http://classroom.leanderisd.org/webs/marzano/identifying_similarities_and_differences.htm
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/1simdiff.htm
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic24c.htm
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/2summarize.htm
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/summarizing_notetaking.htm
http://www.dianelauer.com/techinteg/sumnote.html
http://www.arc.sbc.edu/notes.html
http://www.schools.manatee.k12.fl.us/3160MARZANO/3160marzano/summarize___note_taking.html
http://www.allkindsofminds.org/activity.aspx?id=12
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/3effortandrecognition.htm
http://web2thatworks.com/index.php?title=Reinforcing_Effort_and_Providing_Recognition
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Templates/effort_recognition.htm
http://www.nwrel.org/request/oct00/index.html
http://spearfish.k12.sd.us/west/Specials/Penny/Teacher%20Involve/overview.htm
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/4homework.htm
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/HelpingStudents/index.html
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/activities.html
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/design_principles.html
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/inspiration_templates/index.html
http://education.denniskunkel.com/index.php
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Templates/nonlinguisticrepresentations.htm
http://www.dianelauer.com/techinteg/nonling.html
http://www.co-operation.org/pages/overviewpaper.html
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/coopcollab/index.html
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/6cooperativelearning.htm
http://www.worksheetlibrary.com/teachingtips/cooperativelearningtips.html
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/7objectivesandfeedback.htm
http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/index.php
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/objectives_feedback.htm
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr200.htm
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/8hypotheses.htm
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/hypotheses.htm
http://classroom.leanderisd.org/webs/marzano/generating_and_testing_hypotheses.htm
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index.html
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/9advorganizers.htm
http://www.netnet.org/instructors/design/goalsobjectives/advance.htm
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/advanceorganizers.htm
http://www.oir.uiuc.edu/Did/docs/QUESTION/quest1.htm
http://www.uab.edu/uasomume/cdm/questioning.htm
http://www.sedl.org/secac/rsn/quest.pdf
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/graphorg/
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/graphic_organizers.php
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2983
http://www.edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm
http://www.somers.k12.ny.us/intranet/skills/thinkmaps.html
http://www.graphicorganizers.com/downloads.htm
http://www.writesite.org/html/organize.html
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html
Research and Statistics
This is a highly useful site if you are looking for international comparative education data for developing countries. You can, for instance, easily call up and compare the literacy rates in one country with another.
Technology Tips
If you’re a visual learner and like to sketch out connections between ideas this may be useful to you. Cmap allows you to create and easily modify concept maps and share and snych with others users.
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This is another free mind/concept mapping program.
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Zotero is free citation management software program. It is a Mozilla Firefox browser extension. This means you have have and use the Firefox browser (also a free download if you don’t have it on your home computer; it is installed on the computers in the LMU labs).
What this means is when you find an article, book, website, or whatever that you want to use as a source for a paper, class project, or whatever, you just have to click a little icon on the browser and the item will be added to Zotero. From Zotero, you can create folders, tag, sort, and create instant bibliographies of selected sources.
Download here and watch the how to use video.
Tutorials
Easily generate a citation in APA (or MLA and other styles) for articles in Ebsco databases.
Setting up a personal account in the Ebsco databases (for ERIC, CINAHL, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, and others) allows you to store articles and searches in a permanent folder.
This video tutorial discusses the basics of searching in ERIC.
This video tutorial goes over using the thesaurus in ERIC in more detail.
Download this document for assistance in beginning your search for articles about the future of education. Future of Education Searching Guide
Looking for articles about the ISLLC Standards? Download this document for suggestions.
List of Caldecott, Newberry, Wilder and other award winning books
Note that Caldecott and Newberry are for award winning books. The library should have all of these (they may be checked out though). The Laura Ingalls Wilder award and many other awards are for authors or illustrators, not specific books.
Research Process:
There are a couple of different ways you can find articles about constructivism. Probably the best and easiest is to use one or a couple of the library’s databases. I would recommend either ERIC or ProQuest.
Log in to ERIC from the library’s homepage. www.library.lmunet.edu > Databases > Education > ERIC (or ProQuest).
You can do a simple keyword search for “constructivism” but this will likely get you a lot of different things. Instead of wading through this, try doing a subject search. In ERIC, subjects are called descriptors and the most apt descriptor for this would probably be:
DE Constructivism (Learning)
You can just copy and paste this into the search box. This should get you are 4,200 results and all of these will be about constructivism in some way. You can further narrow this down by adding more search terms. Maybe you want to find articles about constructivism for reading or mathematics, try these as keywords in the other search boxes.