Digital Commons Network:
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Open Access Textbooks: Teaching in the digital world
MIT Open Courseware:Education
MIT Open Courseware offers an extensive series of online courses in Multiple subjects. Courses generally include lecture videos, assignments, exams, and more. Merlot Open Courseware:
Child Development:
Core Practices - A List and Links for Practices Related to Instruction :
EL Education's new edition of the Core Practices provide a comprehensive overview of the EL Education model across the five domains of school: Curriculum, Instruction, Culture and Character, Assessment, and Leadership. Use this Table of Contents to link to the Instruction domain of downloadable individual core practices.
Core Practices - A List and Links for Practices Related to Student-Engaged Assessment:
New edition of the Core Practices provide a comprehensive overview of the EL Education model across the five domains of school: Curriculum, Instruction, Culture and Character, Assessment, and Leadership. Use this Table of Contents to link to the Student-Engaged Assessment domain of downloadable individual core practices.
Other resources:
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Open Access Textbooks: Teaching in the digital world
- Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines and Effective Practice from Around Globe
- Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for designing teaching and learning for a digital age
- Researching Everyday Childhoods Time, Technology and Documentation in a Digital Age
- Digital Personalization in Early Childhood Impact on Childhood
- User Motivation and Technology Acceptance in Online Learning Environments
- Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media
- Introduction to Technology Integration
- Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research
- Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design: Curriculum and Instruction for Students with Developmental Disabilities/Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Distinction through Discovery
- Educational Psychology
- ePortfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios
- Foundations of Education
- Instruction in Functional Assessment
- Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice
- How to Attract Students' Visual Attention
- Global Perspectives on Recognizing Non-formal and Informal Learning
- Teacher Quality, Instructional Quality and Student Outcomes
- Towards Excellence…How to Teach A Guide book for Teachers
- Educational Learning Theories
- Effective Classroom Management: An Interactive Textbook
- Student-Centered Learning: Subversive Teachers and Standardized Worlds
MIT Open Courseware:Education
MIT Open Courseware offers an extensive series of online courses in Multiple subjects. Courses generally include lecture videos, assignments, exams, and more. Merlot Open Courseware:
- Attachment Through the Life Course
- Cognitive Development in Children
- Educational Psychology
- Social and Personality Development in Children
- Social Cultural Foundations of American Education
- A Child Becomes A Reader: Kindergarten through Grade 3
- Evaluating school classroom discussion
- Involving the family in supporting pupils' literacy learning
- Neuroscience and the Classroom: The Art and Science of Teaching
- Neuroscience and the Classroom: Different learners, different minds
- Neuroscience and the Classroom: The Unity of Emotion, Thinking, and Learning
- Neuroscience and the Classroom: Seeing Others from the Self
- Neuroscience and the Classroom: Different Brains
- Neuroscience and the Classroom: Building New Neural Networks
Child Development:
- Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain:
- Learning Space - The Open University :This site provides free courses on the topic of childhood and youth.
- Child Development Institute: A site "designed to provide the information and tools parents need to understand their unique child/children and to enable them to help each child develop into the successful human being they were meant to be." Has useful sections about Ages/Stages, Development, Health/Safety, Psychology, and more.
- Trauma Informed Behaviour Support: A Practical Guide to Developing Resilient Learners
Core Practices - A List and Links for Practices Related to Instruction :
EL Education's new edition of the Core Practices provide a comprehensive overview of the EL Education model across the five domains of school: Curriculum, Instruction, Culture and Character, Assessment, and Leadership. Use this Table of Contents to link to the Instruction domain of downloadable individual core practices.
- CP 10: Planning Effective Lessons
- CP 11: Delivering Effective Lessons
- CP 12: Planning for and Supporting High-Quality Student Work
- CP 13: Teaching Reading Across the Disciplines
- CP 14: Teaching Writing Across the Disciplines
- CP 15: Teaching Mathematics
- CP 16: Teaching Science
- CP 17: Teaching Social Studies
- CP 18: Teaching in and Through the Arts
- CP 19: Differentiating Instruction
- CP 20: Teaching English Language Learner
Core Practices - A List and Links for Practices Related to Student-Engaged Assessment:
New edition of the Core Practices provide a comprehensive overview of the EL Education model across the five domains of school: Curriculum, Instruction, Culture and Character, Assessment, and Leadership. Use this Table of Contents to link to the Student-Engaged Assessment domain of downloadable individual core practices.
- CP 27: Cultivating a Culture of Engagement and Achievement
- CP 28: Crafting and Using Learning Targets
- CP 29: Checking for Understanding in Daily Instruction
- CP 30: Using Assessments to Boost Student Achievement
- CP 31: Communicating Student Achievement
Other resources:
- PBS Learning Media: The PBS Digital Learning Library is a public media system-wide repository of digital media learning objects, including videos, images, podcasts and documents.
- The Teaching Channel: 100s of videos about teaching from teachers. Choose the grade level and skills in the filter box.
- Spotlight Education: ( video series) This collection features resources about intervention and success strategies, 21st Century learners, and examines how the dedication to teaching all children, especially at-risk students, makes a real difference in communities. Spotlight Education celebrates the work of teachers and educators and underscores the importance of convening a dialogue around education.
- Video OER repository