http://netvouz.com/jgordon/tag/planning?feed=rss jgordon's bookmarks tagged "planning" on Netvouz http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/bluewebn/index.cfm Blue Web'n is an online library of 2163 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can also browse by broad subject area (Content Areas) or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). See "About this Site" for a scoring rubric and answers to other burning questions! Teacher Resources > Lesson Planning jgordon Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:30:23 GMT http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.b71d101a2f7c208cdeb3ffdb62108a0c/template.book?bookMgmtId=eadc6f98543c2010VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, This books explains Understanding by Design, presents research related to how "understanding" promotes transfer. Chapter and intro online. See also the related Professional Development Workbook. ASCD > Understanding By Design jgordon Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:54:46 GMT http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/academics.cfm?subpage=1567 This site provides templates for curriculum mapping using backward lesson design (Understanding by Design) with themes and essential questions. It is not ESL specific but is a most valuable resource to help ESL teachers include these components in their curriculum development for ELLs. Curriculum Development jgordon Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:12:11 GMT http://www.emints.org/ethemes/ eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms. eThemes is a service of the eMINTS National Center. eThemes resources are created and maintained by University of Missouri-Columbia College of Education staff and graduate students from the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies Differentiated Instruction jgordon Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:20:03 GMT http://www.uen.org/core/ Utah Education Network This site provides support for curriculum development, interactives across the grade levels and very beneficial links for Math, World Resources, Interactive Projects and Learning Community. Rec. by Suzanne Havilecek Does not include"understandings", but very helpful resources. Curriculum Development jgordon Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:04:53 GMT http://members.shaw.ca/priscillatheroux/strategies.html Enhance Learning with Technology provides a great list of learning strategies, links to instructional designs and other resources for strategic teaching. Teacher Resources > Lesson Planning jgordon Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:12:25 GMT http://www.cloquet.k12.mn.us/Assets/9294.ppt This 2002 Powerpoint presentation by UBD presents the "big ideas" of the model. Instead of opening, save the file in a powerpoint to view the presentation ASCD > Understanding By Design jgordon Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:13:03 GMT http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/ Blue Web’n is an online library of outstanding internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources.tutorials, activities, projects). Blue Web’n does not attempt to catalog all educational sites. Sites are hand-picked and are among the most useful for classroom or instructional use. Rec. by Barbara Tolan Teacher Resources > Lesson Planning jgordon Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:09:34 GMT http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ The Teaching Every Student (TES) section of the CAST Web site supports educators in learning about and practicing Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a framework that can help you turn the challenges posed by high standards and increasing learner diversity into opportunities to maximize learning for every student.See Tools and Activities, includes tutorials Differentiated Instruction > Teaching Every Student jgordon Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:19:08 GMT http://www.jaymctighe.com/ubdweblinks.html This site provides resources for Understanding by Design. Scroll Down for the resources for phase II which focuses on the performance tasks. There is assessment help for all content areas. See the multiple examples of rubrics. Assessment jgordon Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:21:14 GMT