Also Try Behavior Problems Conflict Prevention and Mediation Lesson Plans Critical Thinking Strategies (Foundation for Critical Thinking) Provides 11 tactics to encourage active learning and a description of 35 dimensions of critical thinking. Includes lessons by grade level that strengthen critical thinking. Provides an original lesson and then a lesson remodelled using a critical thinking focus. (See the Remodelled Lesson Plans that are listed by grade level.) 3-00 Lists Bullying (Awesome Library) Classroom Management Resources (Education World) Provides 95 resources. 3-02 Classroom Management Tips (TeachNet) Includes room decor, classroom management, classroom public relations, and much more. Helping Scientists Teach in the Classroom (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) Provides three resources for teaching scientists to teach in public schools. 11-01 Plagiarism Stoppers - A Teacher's Guide (Sharka) Provides sources of information to help prevent or catch online plagiarism. Also includes tips, such as "a way to detect plagiarized text is to locate a phrase containing unique words, then search for it using a search engine like Google." Visitors sometimes misspell as plagarism, plaigarism, or pliagarism. 3-02 Topics for Teachers and Principals (AskERIC) Provides sources of information by topic. 1-04 Materials Quizzes by Teachers for Students (FunBrain.com) Provides a place for teachers to place a quiz and have the students take it online. Only students with your password may take the test. 3-05 Sharing Information with Parents and Students (ThinkWave) Provides free software for teaches, students, and parents to share classroom information, such as grades and lesson plans. 1-00 Styles of Classroom Management - Self-Assessment (Indiana University - Chawley) Provides a quiz to help determine your style of class management. 4-02 Papers Active Listening (Mining Co. - Walker) Provides nine papers on improving listening skills. Anger Management (Safe and Responsive Schools - Skiba and McKelvey) Provides suggestions for anger management. 10-02 Behavior Problems Management (K. Smith) Provides suggestions on effective classroom management for children and teens with behavior problems. 6-99 Brain-Compatible Learning Environments (Artful Minds - Brain Bootcamp) Provides results from brain research as applied to a classroom setting for improving learning. Canadian Supreme Court Upholds Spanking - In a Limited Way (CBC News) "Canada's top court has upheld a law allowing parents to spank their children, but also set guidelines outlining 'reasonable limits' to the act." 1-04 Classroom Discipline (About.com - Kelly) New March Provides over three dozen papers related to improving classroom discipline. Classroom Management Resources (The Teacher's Guide) Provides over a dozen resources for classroom management and discipline. 3-02 Council of Educators for Students With Disabilities (CESD) Provides articles and announcements of events related to teachers and school administrators of students qualifying under IDEA or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Formerly TACHO. 6-99 Critical Thinking - Definition (Foundation for Critical Thinking) Provides a framework for defining and assessing critical thinking. 3-00 Cultural Sensitivity for Young Children (About.com - Snow) Provides suggestions for encouraging young children to treat each other with respect and to appreciate children who are from a different ethnic group. 6-00 Discipline and Students With Disabilities (Council for Exceptional Children - Daniels) "This article provides classroom teachers in inclusion settings with suggestions for addressing behavioral infractions of students with disabilities. In using these strategies, teachers and other practitioners should develop skills in diagnostic, reflective thinking and in making choices among strategies." 10-02 Discipline and Students With Disabilities (Council for Exceptional Children) Clarifies guidelines to meet IDEA's 1997 discipline requirements. 10-02 Ethics - Comprehensive Character Education (SUNY - Lickona) Provides 12 points, with lessons or guides for each. Fighting and Biting (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) Provides basic suggestions. 10-09 Four Stages of Discipline (HonorLevel - Churchward) Suggests four stages of student discipline. 3-02 Four Steps for Better Discipline (HonorLevel - Churchward) Suggests four steps for better classroom discipline. 3-02 Guidelines for Scientists to Teach in the Classroom (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) Provides five tips for scientists to improve their presentations to children in a classroom. 11-01 Integrating Arts in the Classroom (Artful Minds - Visualize the Arts) Provides suggestions, resources, and standards for integrating the arts in the classroom. Motivating Students (Catalyst - Duffrin) Examines the need to motivate students to learn in the classroom. 3-01 Plagiarism Prevention (Indiana University - Writing Tutorial Services) Provides a tutorial on how to avoid plagairism. Visitors sometimes misspell as plaigerism, plaigarism, plagiarizm, plagerism, plagiarised, plagarized, plagerized, plagerised, or plagarised. Awesome Library does not recommend the services, but provides them as examples. 4-00 Rubrics for Essays and Other Rubrics (About.com - Kelly) Provides a variety of tools and articles to help develop rubrics to assess essays and other work of students. 3-01 Socratic Teaching (Foundation for Critical Thinking) Describes how to use Socratic questions in the teaching process. 3-00 Substitute Teacher Resources (Jackson) Provides fun suggestions for the substitute teacher. 3-00 Suggestions for Classroom Management (Microsoft - Carroll) Provides suggestions to make classroom management easier. 9-01 Teaching Strategies (TJ) Provides an outline of basic strategies of interaction between a teacher and students. 7-99 Techniques That Backfire (HonorLevel - Churchward) Provides a list of classroom management techniques that teachers have found ineffective in the long run. "Linda Albert surveyed dozens of teachers, asking them what methods have backfired for them. Here they are as she has presented them in her book: A Teacher's Guide to Cooperative Discipline (American Guidance Service, 1989)." 3-02 Techniques for Better Discipline (HonorLevel - Churchward) Suggests 11 techniques for better classroom discipline. 3-02 Writing Lesson Plans (Adprima - Kizlik) Provides recommendations on writing lessons plans, including mistakes to avoid. Projects Ideas for the Classroom (ILoveThatTeachingIdea.com) Provides dozens of activities for grades K-6. 2-02 Rubrics for Classroom Management and Academic Skills (Teach-nology) Provides over two dozen rubrics. 11-01 Purchase Resources Plagiarism Prevention (Plagiarism.com) Provides an analysis of research papers and essays to determine if the student copied part or all of it from an existing Web resource. Visitors sometimes misspell as plaigerism, plaigarism, or plagerism. Awesome Library does not recommend the services, but provides them as examples. 4-00 Research Discipline - Effects of Spanking on Antisocial Behavior of Children (University of New Hampshire - Straus, Sugarman, Giles-Sims) "When parents use corporal punishment to reduce ASB [antisocial behavior], the long-term effect tends to be the opposite. The findings suggest that if parents replace corporal punishment by nonviolent modes of discipline, it could reduce the risk of ASB among children and reduce the level of violence in American society." 10-02 Discipline in the Classroom - Conclusions from Research (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory - Cotton) Summarizes findings from research on the most effective methods of schoolwide and classroom discipline and management. "During most of its twenty-two year existence, the Annual Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools has identified 'lack of discipline' as the most serious problem facing the nation's educational system." 3-02

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