Literacy Links

Teacher Action Research

Suggested Web Sites

Teacher-As-Researcher
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
The ERIC database provides this article that answers such questions as: What is the purpose of teacher action research? Why is teacher research important? What are the effects of Action Research? (Use the search function to find this document.)

AEL School Services Center
http://www.edvantia.org/index.cfm
AEL is a nonprofit, regionally oriented education research, development, and service institution. Its "mission is to link the knowledge from research with the wisdom from practice to improve teaching and learning." This site addresses the question, "What is action research?"

The Marino Institute of Education Action Research Project
http://www.mie.ie/centredserv/projects/behaviour/main.asp
This project in Ireland provides information about their experience with Action Research.

Link2Learn
http://www.link2learn.co.uk/htm/1/1_index.asp
This Web site is designed to help "educators and students integrate technology into the classroom." It contains two work kits: Browsing and Searching the World Wide Web and Publishing on the World Wide Web.

Trainingzone
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/toolkit/index.html
This site contains The Toolkit area that offers users an ever expanding range of learning materials, handouts, programs, discussion papers, and other resources to download and use. Browse through the listings to find material relevant to your teaching or training needs, or use the Training Zone search facility.

Muskingum College, Center for Advancement of Learning: Learning Strategies Database.
http://www.muskingum.edu/~cal/database/
This Web site offers many general purposes learning strategies for note taking, motivation, test-taking, test anxiety, time management, and much more.

You Can Handle Them All
http://www.disciplinehelp.com/
This site shares a step-by-step approach to handling misbehavior at home and in school. An overview examines the causes of misbehavior, the core needs that motivate humans, and a four-step discipline model. A behavior index applies the model to over 100 specific misbehaviors.

The New Teacher Page
http://www.new-teacher.com
This site offers advice, ideas, and links for "education students, student teachers, first-year teachers, teacher certification candidates, and those who think maybe, just maybe, they'd like to be an educator someday."

Helping Your Students With Homework: A Guide for Teachers
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/HelpingStudents/index.html
Homework is a source of frustration for many teachers. Filled with ideas from teachers for helping make homework effective, the site is organized around 18 tips for getting homework done.

The Harnessing Technology Web
http://www.alri.org/harness.html
This Web page has been updated with many new solutions for classroom and technology problems.

Fun Brain Spelling Site
http://www.funbrain.com/spell/index/html
Designed for all levels of ESL students. It is interactive, providing immediate feedback to tell the student if the answer is correct or not. If the student is wrong, it enables him/her to try again.

Career Lab
http://www.careerlab.com/letters/chap13.htm
This Web site assists students with writing thank you notes to prospective employers and other that aid in a person's job search.

FREE: What's New
http://www.ed.gov/free/
More than 40 new federal educational resources have been added to this Web site that makes hundreds of learning resources available -- and searchable -- in one place. [Editor's note: Keep in mind that Web sites continually change and often relocate or disappear, thus these Web sites are not guaranteed.]