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[|“Building a High-Quality Teaching Profession - Lessons from around the world”]. This is a background Report for the International Summit on the Teaching Profession.

[|“Carol Tomlinson, Ed.D”] This page (listed under Kappa Delta Pi’s International Honor Society in Education is a great springboard on how to fulfill the promise of differentiation. Click on the link for books and view a page with 15 books that cover how to differentiate instruction.

[|English Companion Vignette’s.__] Teaching Strategies Online. This chapter of the online eBook, Educational Psychology, published by McGraw hill includes student artifacts demonstrating effective teaching strategies. Gr. 4-12

[|Moodle: A Learning Management System]. This site is becoming a tool for teachers to develop online dynamic websites and Virtual Learning Environments. It can also be used as a forum for teachers to discuss teaching strategies and techniques.

[|“National Service Learning Partnership”] This site offers a variety of lesson plans and strategy ideas for using service projects as a teaching method. It also includes sections that pertain to curricula, reflections, and assessments.

[|“Reshaping Learning from the Ground up”] by James Daly. In this article (an interview) Alvin Toffler discusses what is wrong -and right- with public education.

[|Teaching, Tips] Website is a good source of a variety of teaching pointers from individual subject strategies to how to motivate students if your subject is boring. Seems to be written in an easy to follow format with information on a lot of different topics related to teaching.

[|“Teaching today”] seems like a good guide for differentiated instruction including the defining of various terms followed by different ways to differentiate your instruction in a variety of areas.

[|“Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement”] by Tristan de Frondeville, published on edutopia. This article discusses how project-learning teaching strategies can also improve your everyday classroom experience.