Instruction

Critical Issues in Instruction

• Building on Prior Knowledge and Meaningful Student Contexts/Cultures

• Working Toward Student Self-Direction and Personal Efficacy as Educational Goals

• Enhancing Learning Through Multiage Grouping
  

• Integrating Standards into the Curriculum

Supporting Materials

• A Bibliography of Research and Resources on Technology and Engaged Learning
• NCREL Essay: What Is a Thinking Curriculum?
• NCREL Essay: What Is the Collaborative Classroom?
• NCREL Essay: Why Should Schools Be Learning Communities?

Additional Resources

• Internet Links
  Although NCREL takes care in selecting other Internet sites to which it links or points, such selection does not imply endorsement by NCREL, its partners, or funding agents.
  
• Coalition of Essential Schools:
  Describes the history of the coalition, their philosophy, and how to join the coalition. Includes full text of newsletters and several articles.
• REGION VI Comprehensive Center
  Home page of the regional education research, training, and development center whose mission is to ensure that sustained, non-fragmented training and technical assistance are developed and provided to assist in meeting the needs of all students served under the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 (IASA) and in areas consistent with the vision of the National Goals 2000 program.
• Urban Learning Centers (formerly Los Angeles Learning Center)
  One of nine design projects selected by the New American Schools Development Corporation as part of a national effort to design, establish and disseminate a "break the mold" generation of American schools.
• Learning Research and Development Center:
  Describes changing views of learning, related LRDC research and publications.
• National Student Research Center: Describes the Center's vision of educating children to be responsible members of a global community. Includes materials for utilizing a classroom approach involving student research and publication.
• University of Illinois Learning Resource Server:
  A suite of servers that distributes and mediates electronic learning resources for K-12 teachers and students, preservice teachers, educational faculty members and educational researchers.
• AskERIC Home Page
  Search the ERIC database, access lesson plans, askERIC a question, and more.
• Engines for Education
  An online "book" devoted to creating exciting learning environments where children learn by doing, especially through the use of technology.
• National Diffusion Network Multidisciplinary/Cognitive Skills Programs Database of curricular and instructional programs reviewed and approved by the National Diffusion Network.