Full-Text Scholarly Articles and Abstracts, Academic Treatises,
Professional Commentaries, Student Critiques (Primarily Graduate Level),
Manuals, Books Online, Organizational Policy and Position Statements, etc.,
Relative to Psychoeducational Theory, Research, & Practice
EDUCATION
General Education and Special Education from Birth through High School
History and Philosophy of Education
- Module One: History and Philosophy of Education
- History of Education: Selected Moments of the 20th Century
- Historical Foundations of American Education: Timeline and WWW Sites
- Educational History and Philosophy Sites
- History of American Education Web Project
- Philosophy of Education: Philosophers
- Philosophy of Education Recommended Readings
- Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Education
- A Time Capsule of Training and Learning
- Pioneers in Education --Power Point Presentation
- America's System of Public Education: Historical Outline
- Greek Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
- Plato and Philosophy of Education
- Comenius
- John Locke
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- Rousseau and Pestalozzi
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Froebel's Philosophy and Materials
- Mind and Body: René Descartes to William James
- Thomas Jefferson and Education
- Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
- E. L. Thorndike: Connectionism
- B. F. Skinner: Operant Conditioning
- Maria Montessori: An Historical Perspective
- Dewey: My Pedagogic Creed
- Dewey: Democracy and Education
- Francis W. Parker's Concentration Pedagogy: Education to Free the Human Spirit
- Progressive Education
- Piaget
- Vygotsky
- Beyond the Individual-Social Antimony in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky
- Gesell
- Erikson
- Bertrand Russell
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Rudolf Steiner
- Open Education in America
- Foucalt Essays & Interviews
- Mortimer Adler
- Issues in Freirean Pedagogy
- Habermas and Philosophy of Education
- Kuhn and Philosophy of Education
- Growing Without Schooling --Interview with John Holt
- Urie Bronfenbrenner --Ecological Systems
- A Hundred Ways of Thinking --Loris Malaguzzi's Reggio Emilia
- E.D. Hirsch
- An Overview of Humanistic Education
- A Brief Introduction to Holistic Education
- Links to Online Philosophy Texts
- Developing an Educational Philosophy: Resources
Learning Theories and Principles
- Instructional Development Timeline: Pre-1920 - 2000s
- Learning Theory
- Learning Theories
- Principles of Learning
- Learning Theories and Models of Teaching
- Models of Learners
- Instructional Design and Learning Theory
- Social Learning Theory --Bandura
Behaviorism and Direct Instruction --See also Learning Theories: Behaviorism
- John Watson
- Pavlov
- B.F. Skinner
- Behaviorist Questions, Views on Teaching, and Views on Learning and the Learner
- Principles of Direct Instruction
- Direct Instruction
- Siegfried Engelmann and Direct Instruction --Head Start and Project Follow-Through Studies on DI
- Direct Instruction: A Transactional Model
- Precision Teaching and Direct Instruction
- Core Knowledge Lesson Plans
- Success For All
Socio-Cultural and Cognitive Constructivism
- Constructivist Theory
- A Review of the Literature on Dissemination and Knowledge Utilization: Knowledge Use as a Learning Process
- Social Development Theory: Vygotsky
- Dialogic Inquiry in Education: Building on the Legacy of Vygotsky
- Vygotsky Project
- Zone of Proximal Development
- Constructivist Theory: Bruner
- Constructivist Learning Theory
- On Constructivism
- In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms: Honoring the Learning Process
- Situated Learning
- Critical Issue: Building on Prior Knowledge and Meaningful Student Contexts/Cultures
- Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics
- Meaningful Learning Research Group Articles
Traditional & Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
- Educational Theory Handbook: A Collection of Theories and Theorists: An Aid to the Student of Educational Theory
- Storming the Citadel: Reading Theory Critically
- Looking Toward the 21st Century: Challenges of Educational Theory and Practice
- Rethinking Education
Typical and Atypical Learners
- The Animal School Parable --Value of Individual Differences, Diversity, and Nurturing Strengths
- Misunderstood Minds
- All Kinds of Minds
Development
- Developmental Principles and Glossary of Terms --Gesell, Erikson, Piaget, Kohlberg, Gilligan, & Vygotsky
- Child Development Basics
- Classic Theories of Child Development --Freud, Mahler, & Erikson
- Theories of Child Development and Learning
- "How Are the Children?" Report on Early Childhood Development and Learning
- Nature / Nurture
- Normal and Atypical Development
- Basic Concepts of Infant Behavior and Development
- Child and Adolescent Development Resources
- Housen's Stage Model of Aesthetic Development
Physical Domain --Biological
- Biological-Maturation
- Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
- G. Stanley Hall
- Gesell's Maturational Theory
- Prenatal Development
- Developmental Milestones
- Stages of Motor Development
- Motor Skills Disorder
- The Bobath Centre
- The Feldenkrais Method
Cognitive Domain --Intellectual
- The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor
- Cognitive Development
- Cognitive Development: Applications of Piagetian Theory
- Jean Piaget's Theory of Development
- Activities to Promote Children's Cognitive Development
- Cognitive Development and Intelligence
- Mind Tools
- Cognitive Development Links
- Speech and Language Development in Infants and Young Children
- Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle and Late Childhood
Moral Development and Character Education --See also Universal Values
- Moral Development
- Character Education
- Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
- Carol Gilligan's, "In a Different Voice"
- Framework for Universal Principles of Ethics
- Integrating Structure and Content in Moral Education
- Studies in Moral Development and Education
Affective Domain --Social-Emotional
- Outline of Social-Emotional Development in Infancy
- Brief Outline of the Theory of Attachment
- Attachment Theory
- Affective Development: The Emergence of Reciprocity and Moral Feelings --Power Point Presentation
- Comparison of Mahler and Stern's Theories of the Development of the Self
- What Does Heinz Kohut Mean by the "Self"? Associations on a Theme
- Mahler, Kohut, and Infant Research: Some Comparisons
- Stages of Social Development
- Emotions and Emotional Intelligence
- Emotional Intelligence: What Does It Really Mean? --Daniel Goleman et al
- Primary Prevention: Educational Approaches to Enhance Social and Emotional Learning
- School as a Context of Early Adolescents' Academic and Social-Emotional Development: A Summary of Research Findings
- Positive Social/Emotional Development and Prevention of Psychosocial/Mental Health Problems
- Distinctions between Self-Esteem and Narcissism: Implications for Practice
- Caring Teachers.com
- Center for Social and Emotional Education
- Social-Emotional Development Journal Articles
- Articles on Social Skills
Resilience: Risks and Protective Factors
- Enhancing Resilience and Protective Factors
- Promoting Resiliency in Families and Children
Social Competence
- Keeping Toddler's Attention May Help Develop Social Competence
- Developing Social Competence in Children
- The Role of Appropriate Scaffolding in the Development of Social Competence
- Social Competence and the Child with Learning Disabilities
- Developing Social Competence for All Students
Infants and Toddlers
- National Institute of Health/Medline: Infant and Toddler Development
- National Network for Child Care (NNCC) Child Development Database: Infants and Toddlers
- NNCC: Infant and Toddler Care
- Infant Temperament
- Child Temperament --Based on Research of Thomas and Chess
- What Is Temperament and How Is It Measured?
- Assessment of Temperament
- Temperament.com
- Dyad Observational Assessment Tool: Adult-Child Interactions
- Assessment of Developmental Milestones
- Infant/Toddler Care
- Infant/Toddler Curriculum
- Program for Infant/Toddler Caregivers
- Resources for Infant Educators --Magda Gerber
- The Emotional Life of the Toddler --Alicia Lieberman
- Infant Development: Even Infants Need Their Solitude
- Toddler Time: Narcissistic Defenses
- The Feldenkrais Method: Developmental Integration Games
- Smart Babies --Articles and activities
- Games for Newborns/Infants: Hands-On Games forBabies
- Infant/Toddler Lesson Plans: Transportation Theme
Attachment --See also Psychosocial: Attachment and Bonding
- Attachment Research and Theory
- Attachment Research: Mom-Child Relations Withstand Day Care
- Bonding: A Simple Wonder
- Family Relations Institute: Attachment Theory
- Attachment
- Attachment Theory Web Site
- Attachment Research Center
- Attachment Home Page
- An Ethological Approach to Personality Development: The Attachment Theory
- Bowlby/Ainsworth Timeline
- Bonding: Recent Observations That Alter Perinatal Care
- Parent-Child Bonding and Family Functioning in Depressed Children
and Children at High Risk and Low Risk for Future Depression --Dan Stein et al
- Secure
Base Support for Social Competence: Attachment Q-sort Correlates of Security
and Social Competence in a Sample of African-American Children Attending
Head Start
- Articles on Child Abuse and Neglect
- Abuse
Play and Learning
- What Are Children Learning When They Play?
- Developmental Stages of Play (Parten)
- Stages of Block Play
- Stages of Art Development
- Playing With and Without Words
- Play --Power Point Presentation
- Supporting Rich Play in Preschool Education
- Exploring Socio-Dramatic Play and Prop Boxes
- Culture and Development in Children's Play
- Play and Cultural Diversity
- Toy Play in Infancy and Early Childhood: Normal Development and Special Considerations for Children with Disabilities
- Stages of Play Development in Delayed Children
Learning Readines and School Readiness (Ensuring Success in School)
- National Education Goals 2000 --Goal #1: "By the year 2000: All children in America will start school ready to learn"
- Assessing Readiness --by Sam Meisels
- The Inappropriate Use of School "Readiness" Tests --Policy Statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Getting Schools Ready for Children: The Other Side of the Readiness Goal
- Getting Schools Ready for Children
- Ten Keys to Ready Schools
- Readiness for School or for School Culture?
- Ready or Not. . .Preparing Young Children for the Classroom
- What Should Young Children Be Learning?
- Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers
- Protecting Children from Inappropriate Practices
- Readiness for Kindergarten
- Entering Kindergarten: Findings from the Condition of Education 2000
- America's Kindergartners
- The
Elementary School Performance and Adjustment of Children Who Enter Kindergarten
Late or Repeat Kindergarten: Findings From National Surveys Effects of Delaying
or Repeating Kindergarten
- ReadyWeb
Planning and Reflection
- Planning Processes: For Whom? For What?
- Thematic Webbing and the Curriculum Standards in the Primary Grades
- Understanding Objectives Tutorial
- Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Cognitive Domain
- Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor Domains
- Behavioral Objectives
- Writing Goals and Objectives
- How to Write Behavioral Objectives
- Writing Behavioral Objectives
- Instructional Objectives
- Planning Lessons
- Lesson Planning Resources
- Schon's Educating the Reflective Practitioner
- The Getting of Wisdom: What Critically Reflective Teaching Is and Why It's Important
Dispositions
- Dispositions: Definitions and Implications for Early Childhood Practice --Lilian Katz
- Dispositions as Educational Goals --Lilian Katz
Learning Environments
- Varied Settings for Teaching --Power Point Presentation
- What Is the Prepared Environment?
- Creating Optimal Learning Environments
- Learning Centers in the Kindergarten Classroom
- Constructivist Learning Environments
- Situative Design Issues for Interactive Learning Environments: The Problem of Group Coherence
- Situated Cognition and Learning Environments: Roles, Structures, and Implications for Design
- Creating Active Learning Environments
- Youth Motivation Using Natural Learning Environments
- Articles on Learning Environments
Community of Learners
- Creating a Community of Learners
- Early Years Are Learning Years: Building Positive Relationships Through Communication
- Establishing
a Community of Learners: The Use of Information Technology (IT) as an Effective
Learning Tool in Rural Primary or Elementary Schools
- Supporting Student Learning in Schools for Thought Environments
Instructional Methods
- Which Teaching Style Should I Use?
- Teaching and Learning Models and Approaches
- Instructional Strategies --Power Point Presentation
- Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Methods
- Models of Instruction
- Instructional Design Models
- Task Analysis and Chaining
- Examples of Task Analyses
- Skinner's Reinforcement Theory
- Gagné's Contributions to the Study of Instruction
- Mastery Learning
- Curriculum Compacting
- Reciprocal Teaching
- Ausubel's Meaningful Learning and Advance Organizers
- Taba's Inductive Thinking Model
- Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Domain
Strategies to Facilitate Concept Formation
- Bruner's Concept Attainment
- Concept Attainment Model: A Viable Component for Elementary Science Curriculum
- Concept Attainment Model --Power Point Presentation
- Concept Attainment Strategy
- Concept Mapping
- Index of Graphic Organizers
Curricular Approaches
- Curriculum and Environments: Educational Approaches
- Curricular and Instructional Patterns in Regular Classrooms
- Curriculum Web
- Creative Curriculum
- Layered Curriculum
- What Does Research Say About Montessori?
- Emergent Curriculum: Tune In to Your Children's Interests
- Following Children's Lead in the Dance of Real Learning
Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning: Integrated Thematic Units
- Integrated Curriculum
- Teaching Interdisciplinary Thematic Units in Language Arts
- Integrated Themes and Lesson Plans
- Prop Boxes and Thematic Centers
- Community Helpers: Careers --Prop Boxes
- Patti's Preschool Resources: Themes
- Thematic Units for Primary Grades
- Integrated Curriculum in the Middle School
- Secondary Education and School-to-Work: Developing an Applied and Integrated Curriculum
- Integrated Curriculum Design Packet
Active Learning, Problem-Based Learning, and Inquiry-Based Learning
- Activity Theory
- Active Learning
- High/Scope Research
- Teaching for Understanding: Educating Students for Performance
- Project, Problem, and Inquiry-Based Learning
- What Is Problem-Based Learning?
- What Is Inquiry-Based Learning?
- Inquiry Education Research
- Inquiry-Based Learning and Teaching: Math and Science Through Museum Collections
- Using the Internet to Promote Inquiry-Based Learning
- The Inquiry Page
- Center for Inquiry-Based Learning: Science Projects
- Supportive Inquiry-Based Learning Environment Project: K-12 Science
Reggio Emilia and Project Approach
- Reflections on the Reggio Emilia Approach --Edited by Lilian Katz & Bernard Cesarone
- Reggio Emilia: Catalyst for Change and Conversation
- The Reggio Emilia Approach
- Reggio Emilia Publications, Videos, and Other Resources
- Reggio Emilia Links
- The Hundred Languages of Children Exhibit Schedule
- Reggio Emilia Resources
- Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners. A Collaboration Between Reggio Emilia and Harvard
- Reggio Emilia and Project Approach Links
- The Project Approach: Links to Internet Sites
- Dynamic Aims: The Use of Long-term Projects in Early Childhood Classrooms in Light of Dewey's Educational Philosophy
- Living the Project Approach with Young Children
- Project Approach --Sylvia Chard's Site
- The Project Approach --by Lilian Katz
- A Review of Research on Project-Based Learning
- The Project Approach: Meeting the State Standards
- The Contribution of Documentation to the Quality of Early Childhood Education --by Katz & Chard
- Representations
- What Is Project-Based Learning (PBL)?
- Project-Based Learning Web Ring
Self-Directed Learning, Engaged Learning, & Time On-Task
- The Nature and Nurture of the Self-Directed Learner
- Engaged Learning
- Meaningful, Engaged Learning
- Handbook of Engaged Learning Projects
- What Can Teachers Do to Cause Learning?
- Instructional Time and Teaching Subjects During the First Four Years of Primary Ed
- The Use of Time in the Classroom
- Increasing Time On-Task in the Classroom
- Increasing Your ADHD Students' Time On-Task
Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)
- Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 --NAEYC Position Statement: Overview of DAP
- What Are Appropriate Goals for Early Childhood Education? --by Lilian Katz
- Developmentally Appropriate Practice: What Does Research Tell Us?
- Child-Initiated Learning Activities for Young Children Living in Poverty --by Lawrence Schweinhart
- Recent Research Supports Developmentally Appropriate Practice In The Primary Grades
- Articles on DAP
Alternative Views on Contemporary Practices (Re:
DAP, Emergent Curriculum, Child-Centered Teaching, Situated Learning, &
Constructivist Methods)
- Developmentalism: An Obscure but Pervasive Restriction on Educational Improvement
- Direct Instruction Is Developmentally Appropriate
- Child-Directed Teaching Methods: A Discriminatory Practice of Western Education
- Applications & Misapplications of Cognitive Psychology to Math Education --by John R. Anderson et al.
- An Address to the California State Board of Education --by E. D. Hirsch
Basic Skills and Content Areas: Language Arts --See also --See also Basic Skills and Content Area Resources and Reading Disabilities
Receptive and Expressive Language/Listening and Speaking
- Ages and Stages: Developmental Milestones for Receptive and Expressive Language Acquisition
- Early Childhood Growth Chart: What Many Children Do In Language
- Stages of Oral Language Development
- Activities to Help Children Learn About Language
Reading
- Language and Literacy Development
- Discretion in the Translation of Research to Policy: A Case from Beginning Reading
- Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children
- Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community: Emerging Literacy: Linking Social Competence to Learning
- Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children
- Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success
- Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
- Reading First Initiative
- Early Reading First Initiative
- Balanced Reading Instruction
- HeadsUp! Reading --Distance Learning
- Sponsor Findings From Project Follow Through
- SRA Direct Instruction Programs --Including DISTAR
- Reading Recovery
- Wilson Reading System
- Dolch Word List, Resources, and Bibliography
- Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Curriculum Areas
- Seven Myths About Literacy in the US
- Nowadays, Even the Illiterates Read and Write --by Berliner
- What the Science Says: Effective Reading Interventions for Kids with Learning Disabilities
- Components of Effective Reading/Writing Programs
- Words in the Brain: Reading Program Spurs Neural Rewrite in Kids
Writing
- Stages of Pre-Writing Skill Development
- Stages of Written Language Development
- Stages of Writing Development
- Five Stages of Writing and Parent Involvement
Math --See also Math Disabilities
- Stages of Math Development
- Math Education Articles
- Math Projects
- Math Magic
- Ask Dr. Math
- Let's Do Math: Online Tools
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
- Metric Conversion Charts
- Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System) Adopted by US for Use in Foreign Trade
- Kitchen Conversion Calculators
- Math Lesson Plans, Themes, and Units
- The Math Forum: Lesson Plans
- K-12 Math Lesson Plans
- Math Lesson Plans K-12
- Math Lesson Plans Page
- Math Glyphs K-6
- National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century
- Third International Math and Science Study
Science
- Science Misconceptions Research and Some Implications for the Teaching of Science to Elementary School Students
- Science Misconceptions
- "Science Myths" in K-6 Textbooks and Popular Culture
- Bad Science
- The Learning Cycle as a Tool for Planning Science Instruction
- The Scientific Method
- Teachers Helping Teachers: Scientific Method Lesson Plans
- BugInABox.com: Why Are There Two Names? --Scientific Classification
- Hanford Science Inquiry Project
- The Why Files: Science Behind the News
- Language Development and Science Inquiry: The Head Start on Science and Communication Program
- Teaching Science Concepts to Children: The Role of Analogies
- How Stuff Works
- How Things Work
- How Things Work: Ask an Expert --Flashlights, Batteries, Circuits, etc.
- Series and Parallel Circuits Lesson
- K-12 Science Lesson Plans
- Science Articles
- Science Magazine
- Scientific American
- Scientific American Frontiers
Social Studies: Diversity --See also Underrepresented Groups and Special Populations
- Illinois State Resources for Educating Linguistically & Culturally Diverse Students
- Diversity Database
- Center for Diversity in Education
- Multicultural Pavilion
- A Different World: Children's Perceptions of Race and Class in Media
- American Indian Studies and Related Issues
- African American Links
- Latin American Links
- AskAsia
- Diversity Links
- Literature on Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism
Children's Rights and Equity in Education --See also Underrepresented Groups and Special Populations
- UNESCO, International Bureau of Education: Children's Rights in Education
- Equity Education On Line: Research
- National Coalition for Equity in Education: Perspectives on Equity
- Education, Poverty, and Inequality
- On Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools --Conversation with Jonathan Kozol
-
Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance: Issues and Perspectives (1999) --Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
- The Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching --by Martin Haberman
- How Should We Group to Achieve Excellence with Equity?
Teacher Assistance Teams (TAT) and School Based Problem Solving (SBPS): Prereferral Supportive Services for Children At-Risk
- Facilitating Teacher Assistance Teams
- Syracuse Schools School-Based Intervention Teams
- Chicago Public Schools (CPS) School-Based Problem Solving (SBPS) Manual
- Designing Effective Prereferral Interventions
- CPS Evaluation Protocol Manual
Early Intervention
- Illinois Department of Human Services: Early Intervention
- Provider Connections: Illinois Early Intervention Credentialing
- Illinois Early Childhood Special Education Resources
- Tools for Early Identification and Intervention- 0-5 Years --Assessments and Intervention Strategies
- The Greenspan Floor Time Model
- Lovaas Institute for Early Intervention
- Early Intervention Resources
- Early Intervention Related Links
Exceptionalities: Gifted, Talented, and Creative --See also Intelligence
- Children Who Are Gifted, Talented, and Creative --Includes Numerous Additional Links
- Giftedness and the Gifted: What's It All About?
- National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent
- The Miseducation of Our Gifted Children
Learning Disabilities --See also Additional Resources and Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury
- IDEA Definition, Prevalence of Specific Learning Disabilities, etc.
- Learning Disabilities: Decade of the Brain
- Learning Disabilities: Special Education for Students with Disabilities --by G. Reid Lyon
- NF-1 and Learning Disabilities --by Denckla
- How to Teach Students with Learning Disabilities in a Mainstream Class
- Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities: A Review of the Issues
- The Link Between Learning Disabilities and Behavior
- CDC Study Confirms ADHD/Learning Disability Link
- Controversial Treatments for LD
Reading Disabilities --See also Reading and Effective Interventions
Dyslexia, Phonemic Awareness and Phonological Processing, and Controversies Around Vision Training
- The Neurology of Reading Disorders
- Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities: A Guide for Teachers and Parents
- Children's Reading Disability Attributed To Brain Impairment
- Non-Impaired vs Dyslexic Imaging of Brain Activation During Reading
- Researchers Map Physical Basis of Dyslexia
- The Neurobiology of Reading and Dyslexia --by Shaywitz & Shaywitz
- Scientific American: Dyslexia eBook --by Shaywitz
- Functional Disruption in the Organization of the Brain for Reading in Dyslexia --by Shaywitz et al.
- Functional Disruption in the Organization of the Brain for Reading in Dyslexia --by Shaywitz et al.
- Dyslexia Linked to Region of Brain
- Procedures Concerning Dyslexia and Related Disorders
- Connectionist Models of Surface and Deep Dyslexia
- Surface Dyslexia
- The Phonological Model of Dyslexia
- How Do We Read? --Power Point Presentation
- Reading Disorders in Children
- Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children: Controversial Therapies
- What Is Vision Therapy?
- Harvard Neurology Web Forum: On Vision Therapy
- Optician's Association of America: Separating Myth from Fact
- Learning
Disabilities, Dyslexia, and Vision: A Joint Statement of the American Academy
of Pediatrics, American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
and American Academy of Ophthalmology
- 2000 American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting: Reading Disability Update
- Academic Interventions for Children with Dyslexia Who Have Phonological Core Deficits
- National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
- Preventing Early Learning Failure
Hyperlexia
- What Is Hyperlexia?
- Hyperlexia: Outcomes, Diagnosis, and Educational Management
- General Information about Hyperlexia
- Hyperlexia and Related Disorders
- Hyperlexia and Language Disorders
- Hyperlexia Articles
Math Disabilities
Dyscalculia
- Math Learning Disabilities
- Dyscalculia: What Is Dyscalculia and What Strategies Can Help?
- Misunderstood Minds: Difficulties with Math --PBS Special
- Learning Disabilities in Mathematics
- Educational Aspects of Mathematics Disabilities
- Adapting Mathematics Instruction in the General Education Classroom for Students with Mathematics Disabilities
- Mathematics Instruction for Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities
- Math Skills
- The Math Page: Math Remediation and Learning Strategies
- Dyscalculia.org
- The Dyscalculia Site
Auditory Processing Disorder
- Auditory Processing Disorder
- Auditory Processing Deficits: How Common? How Remediable?
- Auditory Processing FAQs
NonVerbal Learning Disabilities (NVLD)
- The Misunderstood Child: The Child With a Nonverbal Learning Disorder
- Understanding Learning Differences: Confronting the Puzzle of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
- Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities: An Emerging Profile
- The Syndrome of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: Clinical Description and Applied Aspects
- Understanding Nonverbal Learning Disability (NVLD)
- What Are Nonverbal Learning Disabilities?
- Nonverbal Learning Disorders
- Q and A with Byron Rourke --Principal NVLD Researcher
- Professional Forum: NLD
- Children with Spina Bifida: NonVerbal Learning Disabilities
- Children's Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities Scale
- NonVerbal Learning Disabilities Articles
Abuse and Neglect --See also Child Abuse and Neglect
- Altered Brain Development Following Global Neglect in Early Childhood --by Bruce Perry
- Neglect: Feral Children
- Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect
Individual and Group Guidance: Antisocial Behavior and Violence Prevention
- School Violence from the Perspective of William Glasser
- Spanking by Parents and Subsequent Antisocial Behavior of Children
- Preventing Conduct Problems in Head Start Children: Strengthening Parenting Competencies
- Preventing Anti-Social Behavior in Disabled and At-Risk Students
- Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: a Sourcebook for Community Action
Conflict Resolution
- Conflict Resolution for Children and Staff
- Teaching Conflict Resolution: An Effective School-Based Approach to Violence Prevention
- Implementing a Peer Mediation Program
- Conflict Resolution Consortium
Behavioral Intervention: Parenting Styles & Classroom Management Strategies
- Parenting Style and Its Correlates
- Discipline Responses Influences of Parent's Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity, Beliefs About Parenting, Stress, and Cognitive=Emotional Processes
- Parenting Style as Classroom Management Style
- Classroom Management: An Introduction --Power Point Presentation
- Teachers Helping Teachers: Classroom Management
- Classroom Teacher's Reference Guide to Discipline
- Positive Reinforcement: A Self-Instructional Exercise
- Dr. Mac's Amazing Behavior Management Advice Site
- Tips for Preventing and Defusing Aggressive Behavior and Crisis Situations
- I Messages
- How to Manage Disruptive Behavior in Inclusive Classrooms
- National Down Syndrome Congress: Position Statement on the Management of Challenging Behaviors
- Chicago Public Schools: Uniform Discipline Code
Functional Behavioral Assessment & Behavior Intervention Plans
- Tutorial: Conducting a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)
- FBA Generator
- Functional Behavioral Assessment
- Addressing Student Problem Behavior: FBAs and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs)
- Creating Positive Behavioral Intervention Plans and Supports
- Chicago Public Schools: Positive Behavior Interventions: Policy and Procedures
AD/HD
- ADHD: The Protean Diagnosis
- Approaching a Scientific Understanding of What Happens in the Brain in AD/HD
- Images of Underactivity in ADHD Brain: SPECT Brain Scans
- The Biological Basis of ADHD: An Answer to the Critics
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder --by Barkley
- ADHD and the Hunter/Gatherer Hypothesis
- Neurologist Contends ADHD Fraud
- ADD Research Findings
- ADHD Research
- National Resource Center on AD/HD --Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder --NIMH publication
- Controversial Treatments for Children with ADHD
- Psychopharmacology for ADHD in Adolescents
- Genetics of Childhood Disorders: Is ADHD a Noradrenergic Disorder?
- Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD/ADHD)
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Bibliography
- ADHD in Children and Adolescents
- ADHD and Children Who Are Gifted
- ERIC Digest, "Teaching Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Update 1998"
- AD/HD: What Teachers Should Know
- Teaching Children with ADD Part 1
- Teaching Children with ADD Part 2
- Chicago Public Sschools: ADHD Manual
- Diagnosis and Treatment of ADD in Adults
PDD/Autistic Spectrum Disorders
- Researchers Shed Light on Early Brain Growth and Autism
- Autism: Discrete Trials & Discrimination Training --Power Point Presentation
- Rapid Prompting Method
- PDD Information Pages: Asperger's Syndrome --Guidelines for Assessment, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Intervention
- Metal-Metabolism and Autism
- Facilitated Communication: The Claims vs. The Evidence
- Auditory Integration Training: What Is It?
- Autism: Executive Function and Theory of Mind
- Theory of Mind
Executive Functions --See also Brain Research, Development of Self-Control and Self-Regulation and Adult Development and Learning Theory
- Memory Systems and Executive Functions --Power Point Presentation
- Brain Research: Executive Functions
- Executive Functioning -- What Is It and How Does It Affect Learning?
- Cognition and Action: Executive Functions
- Brain Development and Learning
- Executive Functioning in Gifted/Talented Children
- ADHD and the Nature of Self-Control
- ADHD and Executive Dysfunction
- The Role of Executive Function Defecits in Asperger Disorder
- Tourette Syndrome Plus: Executive Dysfunction
- Executive Functions and the Frontal Lobes
- Evaluating Your Brain's CEO
- Hanoi Tower --Assessment of Planning (Self-Scoring)
- Tower of Hanoi --Automatic Scoring (Requires Java)
- Stroop Test --Assessment of Mental Set (Maintenance and Flexibility)
Physical and Health Disorders
- World Medicus
- CDC: Birth Defects and Pediatric Genetics
- Medline Plus: Neural Tube Defects
- Prevention of Neural Tube Defects
- Children with Spina Bifida
- The Story on Sickle Cell Anemia
- Centers for Disease Control Fact Sheet: HIV and Its Transmission
- Pediatric Aids Fact Sheet
- American Academy of Pediatrics: What Are the Special Needs of Adolescent Patients with HIV/AIDS?
- What Is Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome in Youth?
Substance Abuse and Prenatal Exposure
- Nature and Scope of Substance Abuse in Chicago --1995 Epidemiological Report
- Punishing Women for their Behavior During Pregnancy: An Approach That Undermines Women's Health and Children's Interests
- CDC: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Executive Functions
- National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information: Substance Abuse and Disabilities: Exploring the Relationship
- "Why Are Crack Babies So Screwed Up?"
- "Crack Babies" Catch Up
- Slow Development in "Crack Babies" May Be Caused by Conditions of Urban Poverty
- Developing Crack Babies Refute Fears of Neurological Cocaine-Induced Damage
- The Myth of the "Crack Babies"
- An Interview With Ira Chasnoff --"His Research Was Preliminary But Then The Media Ran With It And Created The Crack Baby Myth"
- Children's Research Triangle --Ira Chasnoff et al.
- Abandoned Infants Assistance: Perinatal Substance Exposure Fact Sheet
Medicating Children --See also Psychopharmacology & Alternative Treatments
- Pay Attention: Ritalin Acts Much Like Cocaine --Brain imaging reveals clues to effects of methylphenidate on the dopaminergic system, August 22, 2001
- A & E Investigative Reports/ Generation Rx: Reading, Writing, & Ritalin April 9, 2001
- PBS Frontline: Medicating Kids April 10, 2001
- Medicating Our Children (2000)
Accommodations and Modifications
- General Information on Accommodations and Modifications
- Chicago Public Schools: Curriculum Accommodations and Modifications
- Illinois State Board of Education: Accommodations and Modifications for English Language Learners
- Accommodations and Modifications Fact Sheet
- Accommodations, Modifications, Alternates for Instruction and Assessment
- State Web Sites for Accommodations Information
- Special Education Programming: What Are Adaptations, Accommodations, and Modifications?
- Accommodations and Modifications
- State Web Sites for Accommodations Information
- Special Education Programming: What Are Adaptations, Accommodations, and Modifications?
- Instructional Accommodations and Modifications for Students with Specific Learning Disabilities
- LD Online for Teachers: Accommodations and Modifications
Individualized Education Programs: IFSPs, IEPs, and 504 Plans --See also IEPs and 504s
- Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSPs)
- Developing a Great IFSP --Nebraska site
- IFSP/IEP Review Guidelines
- IEPs: The Process
- Writing IEPs for Success
- Illinois Special Education Forms --Including Blank Illinois IEP Forms
- Chicago Public Schools (CPS) IEP Workbook --Includes Blank CPS IEP Forms and Instructions for Writing IEPs
- IEP Guide
- Regular Education Teachers as IEP Team Members
- Developing 504 Classroom Accommodation Plans
- Section 504 Faculty Information Guide
- IDEA/504 Flow Chart
Related Services
- Related Services for School-Aged Children with Disabiities
- Related Services
Inclusion
- The General Educator: Applying Constructivism to Inclusive Classrooms
- Collaborative Teaching: Special Education for Inclusive Classrooms --Full text book online
- Teaching and Learning: Special Education Inclusion
- Improving Education: The Promise of Inclusive Schooling
- Including Students with Disabilities in Standards-Based Education Reform
Service Delivery Team Configurations
- Early Intervention for Infants and Toddlers: A Team Effort --Includes descriptions of multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary teams
- Multidisciplinary Teams
- American
Academy of Pediatrics Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics:
Transdisciplinary Approach to Pediatric Undernutrition
- Summit Preschool Disabled Program: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Providing Services to Children with Special Needs
- Excerpt from Educating Children with Multiple Disabilities: A Transdisciplinary Approach
- Collaborative Teaching: Special Education for Inclusive Classrooms
- Making Collaboration and Consultation Work
Special Education in Correctional Facilities and Education for Populations At-Risk (Correctional Education)
- Final IDEA Regulations Change the Face of Special Education: Inmate Services
- Collaborate to Educate: Special Education in Juvenile Correctional Facilities
- Special Education in Correctional Facilities
- Survey of State Correctional Educational Systems (1990 - 1991)
- Number
of Children Age 3-21 Served in Correctional Facilities and Parent Initiated
Private Schools by Race/Ethnicity Under IDEA, Part B During the 1998-99 School
Year
- Correctional Education
- Correctional Education Fact Sheet
- Correctional Education Association
Sensitivity to People with Special Needs & Public Portrayal of Disabilities --See also Underrepresented Groups and Special Populations
- People First Language
- APA Style Guideline for Removing Bias in Language: Disabilities
- People First of Illinois
- Children in Russia's Institutions: Human Rights and Opportunities for Reform --"Defectology and Disability"
- Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities: Report of a Workshop
- Disability Research and the Media
- Portrayal of People with Disabilities in Children's Literature: 1940s to 1980s
- People With Disabilities on Television and In Movies
- Rehabilitation International Disability Films: Take Two
- Disabilities in the Media: The Movies
- Films Involving Disabilities
Disinformation Detection, Professional Position Statements and Warnings: Beware of Snake Oil
- Education Disinformation Detection and Reporting Agency --by Gerald Bracey
- American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Annual Meeting (October, 28, 2000) on Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Current Diagnosis and Treatment --by Wolraich
- AAP: Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Depression
- AAP Policy Statement: Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, and Vision: A Subject Review
- AAP Policy Statement: The Treatment of Neurologically Impaired Children Using Patterning
- Mental Help: Procedures to Avoid
- Helping Students Discern Science from Snake Oil
Effective Interventions for Fostering School Achievement: Research-Based Strategies
- What Works Clearinghouse --Site Launched in Summer, 2004 by the Federal Government to Promote the Collection and Dissemination of Scientific Evidence for Effective Educational Interventions
- Effective Practices
- Effective Intervention Techniques
- Effective Practices for Varying Exceptionalities
- Six Promising Schoolwide Programs for Raising Student Achievement
- Intervention Central
- Long-term
Effects of an Early Childhood Intervention on Educational Achievement and
Juvenile Arrest: A 15-Year Follow-up of Low-Income Children in Public Schools --May 9, 2001 Report in JAMA of Child-Parent Centers in Chicago
- Comment on JAMA Early Intervention Report: Miracles Not Required
- Research on Early Childhood Education
- High/Scope Research --Including Longitudinal Study on Perry Preschool Project
- Effective Educational Practices --by Walberg & Paik
- Effective Interventions: Tutoring
- Improving Student Achievement in Math
- Effective and Replicable Programs for Students Placed At Risk in Elementary and Middle Schools
- OVERVIEW: The Story Behind Project Follow Through
- Effective School Practices: Project Follow Through and DISTAR
- Research into Practice: Implementing Effective Teaching Strategies
- Beyond Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice
- National Academy Press: Full Text Books Available Online with Info on Research-Based Intervention
- Effective, Research-Based Methods and Strategies
- Instructional Strategies: Research-Validated Methods
- Early Reading First: Effective Research-Based Instruction for PreSchool Children
- Mnemonic Strategies in the Classroom
Effective Reading Methods and Strategies --See also Reading
- The Reading Genie --Comprehensive resource for teaching reading
- Developing Reading Fluency
- Making Sense of Reading Strategies
- Reading Strategies
- Reading Strategies Notebook --Particularly geared toward students who are deaf
- Reading Comprehension --Book Selection
- SQ4R --Geared toward college students but effective in fostering reading comprehension for young readers as well (both individuals and cooperative learning groups)
- Effective Reading Strategies --Geared toward college students
Quality Improvement and School Reform
- Continuous Quality Improvement in the Classroom
- Educators' Guide to Schoolwide Reform
- The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education
- Analysis of the Texas Reading Tests, Grades 4, 8, and 10, 1995-1998
- 10th Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education --by Gerald Bracey
Parent Involvement
- Stages of Involvement
- Parent Involvement in Education
- Parents and Learning
- Chicago Parents Get Report Cards on Involvement
Illinois and Chicago Initiatives
- Illinois Early Learning Project
- Illinois School Facts
- STARNET --Region V (Chicago)
- Chicago Systemic Initiative (CSI) Math and Science Education Homepage --Chicago Public Schools & Loyola University Chicago
- Countdown --Loyola's Cable TV Interactive Math Program
- Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (Chicago Gear Up Alliance) --Loyola/Truman Network
International Comparisons
- Vygotskian Theory and Special Education Practice in Russia --"Defectology"
- International Comparisons in Education
- International Comparisons: Education Data
- International Comparisons of Student Performance
- International Student Funding Comparisons: The USA
PSYCHOLOGY
Educational Psychology/School Psychology and Related Areas
History and Systems of Psychology
- People in Psychology
- The History of Psychology
- Readings in the History of Psychology
- Materials on the History of Psychology
- History and Systems Lecture Set: Index
- Today in the History of Psychology: APA Historical Database
- History and Systems of Psychology --Power Point Presentation
- Physiological Influences and the Beginnings of Experimental Psychology --Power Point Presentation
- Structuralism --Power Point Presentation
- Functionalism --Power Point Presentation
- Gestalt --Power Point Presentation
- Humanistic Psychology --Power Point Presentation
- Historical Views of Abnormal Behavior
- History of Cognitive Psychology
- History and Philosophy of Psychology Web Resources
Readings in Educational Psychology --See also Psychology of Learning and Teaching
- The 100 Year Journey of Educational Psychology --by Berliner
- What Is Educational Psychology--Power Point Presentation
- Educational Psychology Tutorials --A Number of Tutorials on Key Figures and Core Elements in Ed Psyc
- Educational Foundations: Examining a Psychology for Learning
- Psychology as Philosophic Method --by Dewey
- Educational Psychology Interactive: Readings in Educational Psychology
- Theory Into Practice (TIP): Learning Domains
- TIP: Learning Concepts
- TIP: The Theories
- Mind Maps on Learning --Learning Theories Organized for Visually Oriented Learners
- Childhood and Adolescent Outlines
- Becoming a Brilliant Star --Nurturing the Whole Child
- American Psychological Association (APA) Learner-Centered Principles
--Cognitive & Metacognitive Factors, Motivational & Affective Factors,
Developmental & Social Factors, and Individual Differences Factors
- Misunderstood Minds
- Educational Psychology Meets the Christian Right: Differing Views of Children, Schooling, Teaching, and Learning --by Berliner
Brain Research --See also Executive Functions, Brain-Based Education, & Neuropsyc Sites
- Zero to Three BrainWonders Web Site: Brain Quiz
- Brain and Behavior Lectures
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