http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Thu, 23 May 2013 02:05:54 PDT Thu, 23 May 2013 02:05:54 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76942 NCTAF’s research and publications have positively impacted teaching quality in schools and districts across the country for almost 20 years. Our research has informed the growth of professional teaching standards, the birth of organizations that strengthen the teaching career from induction to mastery, and the national discussions about methods to encourage and develop teacher knowledge and skills. NCTAF’s first groundbreaking report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future (1996)(pdf), called for “competent, caring, qualified teaching in schools organized for success” and sparked a national dialogue about the importance of high quality teaching. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=433985 The Center for Teaching Excellence authored this white paper, Building from Content to Community: [Re]Thinking the Transition to Online Teaching and Learning, to serve as a resource for faculty who are teaching online or are considering making a transition. We hope this paper serves as the starting point for conversation and reflection as you begin this process yourself. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=478248 Article about Barry Moser's trilogy of fairy tale picture books set in Appalachia: The Tinderbox, Polly Vaughn, and Tucker Pfeffercorn. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=377010 Marie Sontag offers a new learning theory to shape K-12 teaching. Sontag's social and cognitive connectedness schema (SCCS) theory recognizes the changes in the way students obtain and integrate new information and offers a structure for instructional design that fosters learning by accessing students' strengths in these areas. "The cognitive-connectedness schema structures a student's ability and desire to know how what they are learning connects to a larger picture." NOTE: You will have to join Innovate to access the article, but it is free to join. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=347478 Journal article on authentic assessment and facutly development http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=490325 Ideas for a successful back to school nights to help parents understand more about their kids' learning. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=358794 Web 2.0 has emerged into a large, growing, and developing world of content and platforms. Gaming has rapidly expanded into a global industry. In contrast course management systems have developed along very different lines. We examine ways for the CMS to connect with these two worlds, outlining areas for possible development: increased hyperlinking, internal platforms and instances, and extruded applications. Additionally we consider ways by which the CMS can learn strategically and conceptually from Web 2.0 and gaming. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=639093 The author provides background into the history of language policies in the United States and proposes a set of principles and policies to ensure that there is no linguistic discrimination. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=491135 Tips for effective teaching and classroom management. The article includes a ppt for effective teaching. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=448507 The school is in a society that is a complicated process of transformation and can not be alien to it. Students today have many more sources of information that what happened does not make or five years. Sources of information, such as the Internet, cell phones, laptops, iPods that make it necessary to rethink the way how the school teaches. The use of blogs as an educational tool puts school in the dynamics that require our students and training for skills that society is going to sue them. In this paper we develop some experiences in the use of blogs as an educational tool for high school levelLa escuela se encuentra en una sociedad que está en un complicado proceso de transformación y no puede ser ajena a éste. Los alumnos disponen hoy en día de muchas más fuentes de información que lo que ocurría no hace ni cinco años. Fuentes de información, como Internet, teléfonos celulares, laptops, iPods que hacen necesario replantear la forma de cómo la escuela enseña. El uso de los blogs como una herramienta educativa innovadora coloca a la escuela en la dinámica que exigen nuestros alumnos y en la formación de las competencias que la sociedad les va a demandar. En este trabajo se desarrollan algunas experiencias en el uso de los blogs como una herramienta educativa a nivel bachillerato.