Resources for Teachers
Friday, August 19, 2005 - 12:52 PM
Why does back-to-school season come as such a rude slap in the face every year? We didn't really help things by inviting Seth Flicker, a teacher at Brooklyn Friends School, on the show today. But Seth wants to help, and has provided these resources:
First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher
Harry K. Wong, Rosemary T. Wong
Understanding by Design
Grant P. Wiggins / Paperback / Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve / March 2005
Our Price: $23.06
Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8
JoAnn Portalupi / Hardcover / Stenhouse Publishers / April 2001
Our Price: $18.50
Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K through 8
Ralph J. Fletcher / Paperback / Stenhouse Publishers / September 1998
Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy
Gay Su Pinell
Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
Esme Raji Codell / Paperback / Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill / June 2001
Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12
Heidi Hayes Jacobs / Paperback / Association for Supervision & Curriculum
About Teaching Mathematics: A K-8 Resource
Marilyn Burns / Paperback / Math Solutions Publications / August 2000
Doing History: Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools
Linda S. Levstik, Keith C. Barton
Some websites
discoveryschool.com
brooklynfriends.org - My school's website
http://teacherline.pbs.org/teacherline/ - PBS new catalog of excellent online courses
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/ - BBC's excellent education website
teachers.net
http://www.rny.nysed.gov/rindex.shtml - Rediscovering NY, a program via the Bd. of Education.
http://www.lasw.org/ - Looking at Student Work
scholastic.com
www.gothamcenter.org - NYC History Education
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