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These sites provide overviews of suitable teaching strategies to
encourage learning and achievement.
- LEARNING TO
LEARN - Learning to Learn is for learners, teachers, and
researchers. It teaches the value of self-awareness as a critical part
of learning. It's a course, a resource, and a source of knowledge about
learning, how it can be developed in children and adults, and how it differs
among learners.!
An EXCELLENT site. Make sure you check it
out - Take a look at the Add Your Link
pages for an extensive and constantly growing collection of sites on Learning
Sites,Web Stuff, The Brain, Consciousness, Metacognition, Learning Styles,
Memory, Language, Reading, Problem Solving, Creativity, Special Education,
Technology, Teaching and Other Interesting Sites.
- EXPLORATIONS IN LEARNING
AND INSTRUCTION: The Theory Into Practice Database (TIP)
is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible
to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories
of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning
domains and concepts.
- LESLIE
OWEN WILSON'S HOMEPAGE - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN:This site
includes a wide variety of materials dealing with education, educational
reform and issues which pertain to topical areas in curriculum development,
creativity, theories of learning, and educational psychology. This is a MUST VISIT site! A wealth of useful information
and inspiration. Browse here extensively!
- LEARNING
PATHS: Learning Styles. Learning Strategies. Learner Autonomy.
Learning Paths aims to help the process of self-discovery by providing
materials and references. Special Activity
pages offer suggestions for individual and class tasks.
Strategic lesson plans focus on strategy activation in the classroom.
Surveys
and questionnaires supply ready-to-use tools for investigating various
aspects of the teaching/learning interface. The My
papers section includes some of the papers I have produced and published
in the area of learner autonomy and related issues. The site also offers
selected Bibliographies
and Links
to other dedicated sites. Relax in style provides a bit of personalised
relaxation ...
| PRACTICAL CLASSROOM STRATEGIES |
- STRATEGIES,
TIPS AND IDEAS - Acquiring Knowledge. Brainstorming. Analysis.
Assessment. Hand On. Reinforcement. Each area offers you some background
on the benefits of the strategy, a keep in mind tip, and ideas that are
easy to implement into your lesson plans. Make sure you access the IDEAS
links on each of the 6 strategy pages. There are lots of practical strategies
suitable for classroom use.
| LEARNING STYLES RESOURCES |
- INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING
STYLES RESEARCH -This site is under development. From this
page you can complete an interactive Perceptual Modality Preference Survey
which gives you instant feedback on your preferred learning style. This
may give you insight into your learning/teaching preferences. Students
could also complete this survey. You may also access information on the
7 Perceptual
Learning Styles. This article is also available offline by clicking here!
- LEARNING
STYLES (R.M.Felder) - What is your prefered learning style? (active/reflective,
sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global)
The Index of Learning Styles link at the bottom of this page gives access
to an online questionnaire for assessing learning preferences on four of
the five dimensions of the Felder-Silverman model. It is also available
as a Paper and Pencil version complete with a self scoring form and a four
page handout outlining suitable teaching/learning strategies according
to your learning preferences.
| DE BONO'S SIX THINKING HATS |
The web-site relates to most of Dr de Bono's work in the teaching of
'thinking tools', lateral thinking and the communications framework - Six
Thinking Hats. The information contained here is pertinent to people of
all ages no matter what their occupation. You will find information about
Dr de Bono, his books, feedback, his courses for children, families and
adults, his community projects, the creative team, his accredited trainers
and their schedule of courses.
