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Teaching

• A Cognitive Apprenticeship for Disadvantaged Students
  The thesis in this paper by Allan Collins, Jan Hawkins, and Sharon Carver is that the changing nature of work in society provides a potential meeting ground where education for the advantaged and disadvantaged can come together in a curriculum where the educational tasks reflect the future nature of work in society.
• A Cross-National Study of Teachers' Attributional Patterns
  This cross-national study examined patterns in teachers attributional responses to outcomes of students with and without learning disabilities. Teachers from elementary schools in California and Guatemala City participated in the study.
• Caine Learning-Home of Brain/Mind Learning
  Caine Learning provides a good overview of how to reach "cognitive diverse_ classrooms and has a great list of online tools. We especially like the Capacities Wheel and the Guided Experience Model.
• Changing Urban High Schools
  A summary of the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform and the Annenberg Institute for Urban School Reform conference held in Baltimore October 2000. In small group sessions over the two-day meeting, participants discussed tactics, pilot programs, and models.
• Communication Strategies for Effective Collaboration
  As schools move to a more collaborative service delivery for students with exceptionalities, it is important for educators to communicate within school settings on a variety of topics related to meeting student needs. To meet the needs of all students and promote inclusion services, special and general educators must communicated with colleagues in school settings.
• Cooperative Learning and Strategies for Inclusion: Celebrating Diversity in the Classroom
  This book supplies educators, classroom support personnel, and administrators with numerous tools for creating positive, inclusive classroom environments for students from preschool through high school.
• Cultural Diversity in Classrooms
  Teacher Talk is a publication for preservice and secondary education teachers that exists as a series of World Wide Web documents. Anyone is welcome to use these resources as long as they indicate that the article or lesson plan is a part of Teacher Talk which belongs to Indiana University.
• Different and the Same
  Researchers have found that children's racial attitudes are formed as early as three years of age. In elementary classrooms everywhere, diversity is a major topic of discussion among children.
• Effective Education of African American Exceptional Learners: New Perspectives.
  This book presents 11 author-contributed papers covering the theory and practice of effective assessment and instruction of African American students with exceptionalities, including both disabilities and giftedness. Emphasis is on effective delivery of empowering services to African American youth and their families.
• Houston Consortium Of Urban Professional Development And Technology Centers
  A consortium of nine institutions including the University of Houston and the Houston Independent School District to produce teachers who are effective in culturally diverse urban environments.
• How to Differentiate Instruction Reconcilable Differences?
  The article discusses differentiation as a philosophy and set of beliefs that acknowledges that students of the same age differ in their readiness to learn, their styles of learning, their experiences and their life circumstances. Differentiation is wary of approaches to teaching and learning that standardize.
• Literacy Cluster
  A California State University, Los Angeles Charter School of Education and Los Angeles Unified School District collaborative effort to improve teacher preparation and development in literacy .
• Making the Grade in High School: Success for African-American Urban Males
  Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland, profiles an ancillary program which address the needs of underachieving freshman males.
• New Trends in language Education For Hispanic Students
  This digest summarizes the effective bilingual strategies described in Transforming Education and HDP's recommendations for bilingual education at all school levels. While the strategies are specifically oriented to the needs of Hispanic students, most can improve the education of all students with immigrant and limited English speaking backgrounds.
• On-The-Job Urban School Teacher Preparation Program
  A partnership program between the California State University, Northridge and the Los Angeles Unified School District to address the critical shortage of fully certified special education teachers and the need for alternative preparation programs to prepare on-the-job teachers. The program was designed to develop teacher competencies specific to serving urban students with special needs.
• Peace Education
  In 1945, the United Nations was established to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war", "to reaffirm faith in the dignity and worth of the human person [and] in the equal rights of men and women", "to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained", and "to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom". Peace education has developed as a means to achieve these goals.
• Preventing and Countering School-Based Harassment
  Preventing and Countering School-Based Harassment is the result of two conferences on racial harassment and numerous training of trainer administrator workshops. This guide addresses the more comprehensive issue of school-based harassment by capturing similarities in cause of, type of, and remedy for all forms of harassment.
• Project FUSE (Field-based University and School Education)
  A program developed by Florida International University and implemented in the Dade County Public Schools to prepare teachers for urban classrooms.
• Social Relationships and Peer Support: Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices
  Facilitating positive peer relationships and supportive ties between students is essential to creating a successful inclusive classroom. This user-friendly guide for teachers offers proven models on how to build these important relationships.
• Teaching, Technology And Restructuring Partnership (T2ARP)
  A partnership program between the San Diego State University, School of Education and Department of Educational Technology, and O'Farrell Community School, a charter school within the San Diego Unified School District to prepare teachers for middle school.
• Transforming Education for Hispanic Youth: Exemplary Practices, Programs,and Schools
  A report on the Hispanic Dropout Project, a two-year study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education.
• Why Urban Parents Resist Involvement in their Children's Elementary Education
  Reseachers examined the perceptions of teachers and parents about family involvement in urban schools. The study generated from several others that have been conducted about teaching in high poverty, urban schools.