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Instructional Design

• The Adventist EDGE Kindergarten-Grade 12
  
  The NAD Southern Union's comprehensive school improvement initiative, Educators Developing Goals of Excellence (EDGE). This website includes resources for administration, early childhood, elementary, secondary, and staff development. Helpful resources also...
• A Primer on Motivation Principles: Principles Old and New Kindergarten-Grade 12
  
  How can teachers motivate today
• A Resource Center Is Born Kindergarten-Lifelong
  
  Outlines the impetus, background, and organization of the Curriculum and Instruction Resource Center Linking Educators--CIRCLE.
• ABCTeach Grade 1-Grade 8 New!
  
  Locate everything from free flash cards in French to worksheets that help youngsters improve spelling at this educational website.
• Alberta Education Programs of Study Kindergarten-Grade 12
  
  Find core and complementary curriculum including learning and teaching resources in content areas: early childhood, English language arts, fine arts, French language arts, health/career and life management, information and communication technology, mathematics,...
• Art is For Everyone Kindergarten-Grade 12
  
  This article defines art and then shows how it can be taught effectively. Benefits to be gained from the study of art include encouraging self-expression, developing creative thinking, aiding self-discovery, developing visual perception, and developing the...
• Carson-Dellosa Publishing Preschool-Grade 10
  
  Innovative PK-8+ materials to educate, motivate and decorate. Carson-Dellosa includes Mark Twain Media products for grades 4-8+.
• Celebrating the 100th Day of School Kindergarten-Grade 10
  
  A growing list of wonderful 100th Day of School celebration ideas from teachers, librarians, principals, media specialists, and other educators. A creative idea for everyone.
• Communicating in Today's Classroom Kindergarten-Lifelong
  
  Cross-cultural misunderstandings are a fact that teachers must recognize. Aspects of culture are more than just language. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and Edward Hall's theory are important. Teachers should assume that students want to cooperate to make clear responses,...
• Cooperation - The Only Way to Go in Small Schools Kindergarten-Grade 8
  
  This article from the special JAE issue on cooperative learning states that multigrade classrooms provide the perfect climate for practicing cooperative learning skills. The author gives suggestions for the different subject areas as well as catchy getting-started...
• Curriki Tertiary-Lifelong
  
  Curriki is a global education and learning community whose mission is to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with user-created, open source curricula, and it's all free! Building on the wikipedia open source encyclopedia...
• Developing Instructional Effectiveness in Adventist Higher Education - a Ghanaian Perspective Tertiary-Lifelong
  
  Laryea proposes a framework for improving instruction and learning. The proposals offered can be applied in any Adventist institution of higher education with characteristics similar to those obtaining in Ghana at the present time. This paper was presented...
• Direct Instructional Model Kindergarten-Grade 8
  
  Nada AbiSamra shares an outline of the Direct Instructional Model. The presentation is divided into the following sections: What we teach students; Five habits of mind - for teachers; Five habits of mind - for students; Models for teaching; Elements to consider;...
• Educational Insights Preschool-Grade 8
  
  Educational Insights manufactures hands-on learning materials, providing solutions for teaching children the fundamentals of geography, math, reading, science and other subjects in a unique and interesting way with interactive educational games, kits, manipulatives,...
• Effective Teaching - Harry & Rosemary Wong's Teachers.Net Column Kindergarten-Grade 12
  
  "Every month, classroom management gurus Harry & Rosemary Wong publish a new collection of classroom strategies and approaches designed to help teachers - new and seasoned - master the routine matters that can consume so much of a teacher's time."...
• Encouraging Active Learning Kindergarten-Lifelong
  
  The question 'What is Active Teaching and Active Learning?' is asked and answered in this article. Active teaching engages the students in learning. Five techniques are discussed: Inductive Reasoning (List, Group, Label); Think, Pair-Share; Write, Pair-Share;...
• Erasing the Myths of Adventist Education Kindergarten-Grade 12
  
  A composite article written by superintendents within the Adventist Church in Canada addressing the church's commitment to educational excellence. The authors address and counter six myths of Adventist education in areas such as curriculum, academic standards,...
• Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Kindergarten-Grade 8
  
  A wealth of print-on-demand activities for assessment, learning centers, early childhood, reading readiness, language arts, literature, math, science, social studies, Spanish and ESL, thinking skills, writing, thematic, teacher resources and more...
• Experiential Learning: Mathematics Kindergarten-Grade 12
  
  This article shares current perspectives on using and developing mathematics manipulatives for teaching. Also shared are implementation strategies for K-12, new directions for practice, and the influence of state initiatives on experimental learning.
• Great Teaching Must Inspire Great Thinking Tertiary-Lifelong
  
  This article addresses some of the perennial issues that arise when schools attempt to teach students to think. Teaching critical and independent thinking does not appear to hinge on the controversy between the merits of teacher-centered or student-centered...