Teacher Resources
School Improvement
- School Improvement in Maryland - MSDE site
- High
School Assessments - MSDE
- Prototype Items (including ECR's, BCR's and rubrics)
- Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Assessment
- Maryland Assessment
Consortium
- Glossary of Assesment Terms
- Assessment Resource Databank.. call Kathy Corely for password
Core Learning Goals
- How will MSPP work in high School?
- English
- Mathematics
- Science
- Social Studies
- Skills for Success (World of Work in assocition with the Md Business Roundtable)
Online Projects
- onLINE: BCPS Librarian's page to the Essential Curriculum
- BCPS Online Research Models
- CyberGuides..web-delivered
units of instruction centered on core works of literature.
Contains- student edition
- teacher edition
- standards
- task and a process by which it may be completed
- teacher-selected web sites
- rubric
- Oral History by D. Curtis
Good Stuff
- International Reading Association Bookstore
- Reading in the Content Area, by D. Curtis...
- Teach With Movies...Learning Guides Arranged by Minimum Age
- Create your own online quizzes for your class. Results are scored for the students and sent to your email box.
- From Now On; Educational Technology Journal by Jamie McKenzie
- Questioning.org...Questions may be the most powerful technology we have ever created. Questions and questioning allow us to make sense of a confusing world. They are the tools that lead to insight and understanding.
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators...categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth.
Evaluating Web Resources
- Critical Evaluation Survey : Secondary School Level by Kathy Schrock...general guide to evaluate of any type of web page
- Trash or Treasure: Evaluating Internet Sites...helpful to use with students, gives online examples
- Evaluating Web Sources...checklist for different web page types (Personal, Informational, Advocacy, Business and News sites)
Keeping in the Know
- How children learn...multiple intelligences, brain research, constructivism, dimensions of learning