Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Context Counts in Second Language Learning
Discover how contextual factors count when learning a second language.
Other
Strategies for Differentiating Instruction
Detailed article offers many suggestions for differentiating instruction in the classroom. Site also offers links to other resources on differentiation.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Science Education Center: Sending "Learning Styles" Out of Style
Studies have found that there is no benefit to matching teaching styles to individual learning styles. Mulitple representations of a topic are more helpful to a learner than just one regardless of preferred learning style. This is...
FNO Press
From Now On: A Questioning Toolkit
What exactly is a "questioning tool kit"? This resource provides techniques for asking essential questions, hypothetical questions, telling questions, planning questions and organizing questions.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Inquiry Page: Learning Begins With Questions
What exactly is inquiry-based learning? Use this website to learn more about this unique learning style.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ncrel: Human Body Systems Resource
What do you know about the different human body systems? This site features information on each of the different systems. Students and teachers will benefit from this comprehensive resource.
Other
Criteria for Authentic Project Based Learning
Check out this site to view a comprehensive list of criteria for project-based learning. This simple list is the perfect resource for parents, teachers, and students.
Success Link
Success Link: Hands on Alphabet
A lesson plan that incorporates different learning styles for teaching the letters of the alphabet.
Other
Educational Methods: Tactile Learning
Tactile learners learn most effectively by being able to manipulate and physically touch objects. This article explores three different tactile activities that have been found to be useful in teaching different age groups of tactile...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Do Learner Types Need in Style Instruction?
How does the mind work - and how does it learn? Teachers' instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut instinct. Such gut knowledge often serves us well,...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Time Capsule Show What You Know
Students will assemble a time capsule full of tidbits of information they feel would be useful for the next class to study and learn successfully.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Assessing Preferred Learning Styles
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about learning styles. A link to many inventories for learning styles is provided. SL.9-10.1b Group Rules
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning strategies. Learning style assessments is a strategy suggested, along with several ways of randomly assigning students to groups.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ways to organize cooperative groups so that meaningful discussion will occur. It also offers a worksheet for determining learning styles that is useful to develop groups. SL.9-10.1c Active Partic
Curated OER
Strategies for Differentiating Instruction
Detailed article offers many suggestions for differentiating instruction in the classroom. Site also offers links to other resources on differentiation.