INTERNET 4 CLASSROOMS
Who is Internet 4 Classrooms?
Per their website: In February, 1997, Susan Brooks and Bill Byles began a collaborative effort to extend assistance to fellow teachers. In November of 2000 that project expanded to a web presence known as Internet 4 Classrooms (“i4c”), a free web portal for designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials. The portal is used by teachers, parents and students of all ages on six of the seven continents (there are not many classrooms in Antarctica) and is available to anyone with an Internet connection. We do not charge a subscription fee.
U CAN FIND:
Grade Level Help for Kindergarten thru 8th Grade
Standards based links to help your students practice what you have taught them.
Links for K-12
Several large collections of links for K-12 teachers, students and parents.
On-Line Practice Modules
Step-by-step technology tutorials for learning applications commonly used in K-12 classrooms.
Assessment Assistance
Help your students prepare for annual assessments, standardized tests, and end of course exams.
Etc……………………….
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Family Education Network
Who is Family Education Network?
Per their website: Welcome to Family Education Network, the best of the Internet’s content, resources, and shopping for parents, teachers, and kids. Launched in September, 2000, the company’s mission is to be an online consumer network of the world’s best learning and information resources, personalized to help parents, teachers, and students of all ages take control of their learning and make it part of their everyday lives.
U CAN FIND:
Family Education Network’s Parent Channel – FamilyEducation.com
Launched in 1996 as the first parenting site on the Web, FamilyEducation has become the Internet’s most-visited site for parents who are involved, committed, and responsive to their families’ needs.
Family Education Network’s Teacher Channel – TeacherVision.com
TeacherVision® is one of the Internet’s most popular sites for teachers, featuring tools and resources that save educators time and make learning fun for students in grades K-12. Resources include a vast online library of lesson plans, graphic organizers, printables, email newsletters, quizzes, and printable books to help teachers enhance student learning, meet local and national educational goals, and manage their teaching lives and classrooms with ease.
Family Education Network’s Kids Channel – FEkids.com
FEkids makes learning fun and interactive. Designed especially for students, from kindergartners to high-school seniors, it’s the perfect blend of cool, interactive, educational games, special projects, and instant homework help—with a reference area and a current event center. Family Education Network’s Kids Channel helps students succeed in school, build skills online, and have fun!
FunBrain.com
FunBrain is one of the top five most-visited kids learning sites on the Internet, featuring over 50 fun and interactive learning games for kids, parents, and teachers. Over 150,000 teachers use FunBrain’s Quiz Lab. Teachers can use or customize over 40,000 ready-made quizzes for all ages and grade levels, track student and class progress daily with instant analysis, and assign FunBrain games that build skills and correlate to national testing standards. Popular games include Math Baseball and Grammar Gorillas, designed as in-class, online activities.
MORE TO COME!
Hope this info can be of help!!!
Alabama Accountability Reporting System
http://www.alsde.edu/accountability/
You can find test scores by gender, ethnicity, and special group status….
http://www.bestpracticescenter.org/pdfs/acadexcell.pdf
SEE FULL REPORT ON WEBSITE.
The Road to Academic Excellence, Report of The Governor’s Commission on Instructional Improvement and Academic Excellence in Alabama Public Schools.
“After fifteen months of extended study, The Commission concluded, among other findings,
that:
! Alabama is facing challenges in education never before experienced.
! State-of-the-art technology, training in the use of technology, student accountability,
accurate and fair assessment, instructional improvement, academic success for all
students, quality teacher education and professional development programs are all
necessary components of academic excellence.
! Students will achieve more when what they are to learn is made clear, when
expectations for academic learning are high, and when they are responsible for their
performance.
! Most teachers are teaching subjects for which they are certified but there are still too
many teaching subjects outside their area of certification, especially in rural or poorly
funded school systems.
! Teacher preparation programs should be revised to meet the needs of teachers who enter
the classroom and the changing nature of educational expectations and public school
students.
! All teachers should be required to participate in high-quality professional development
so they can improve their practice and enhance student learning.
! The preparation programs for school, district and state leaders are inadequate for the
future. Moreover, there are too few qualified administrators to meet the demands.
! Alabama’s assessment system is overly reliant on a single, norm-referenced test.
Rigorous content standards require a more balanced assessment system.
! Students who begin school far behind in the skills and experiences necessary to succeed
in school are highly unlikely to catch up with those students who begin school ready to
learn. Thousands of Alabama children each year fail to acquire the skills necessary to
experience success in the next grade.
! Parental involvement improves student performance. Studies have shown that
regardless of parental income, level of education, or work status, it is the school’s efforts
and the teachers’ practices that determine the success of parental involvement
programs.
! Technology, if applied thoughtfully and well integrated into a curriculum, can be a
helpful tool to assist student learning, provide access to valuable information and
ensure a competitive edge for our workforce.”