Resources


 * Understanding by Design **

**Cover Page**

**Stage 1**


 * [|Maine Learning Results] Maine Department of Education Regulation - Maine //Learning Results//: //Parameters for Essential Instruction (//effective October 22, 2007)

Stage 2 **

__**Formative**__ [|Encouraging Self-Direction and Collaboration] Overview of the methods, purposes, and instruments used for self-direction and collaboration. [|Checking for Understanding and Encouraging Meta-Cognition] overview of the methods, purposes, and instruments used for checking for understanding and encouraging metacognition. ** __**Summative**__ [|Pulling it all together to create an assessment timeline] Samples of units with all their assessment pieces in order.
 * [|Monitoring Progress] Overview of the methods, purposes, and instruments used for monitoring progress.
 * [|Demonstrating Understanding and Skill] Overview of the methods, purposes, and instruments used for demonstrating understanding and skill.

[|WebQuest] This site provides a unified gateway to the resources previously linked to the WebQuest Page at San Diego State University and those at the portal at WebQuest.Org. [|RubiStar] Is a free website which allows you to create and download rubrics for your performance task. This site is made available from a federal grant for teachers.  [|Teach4Learning] Use the Rubric Maker to make customized assessments for student work. [|Intel's Assessment Library] Includes pre-made, classroom-tested checklists, rubrics, and scoring guides on thinking skills, processes, products, and performances.

Stage 3 **

[|Cooperative Learning]  is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. [|Encouraging Self-Direction and Collaboration] Overview of the methods, purposes, and instruments used for self-direction and collaboration. [|Monitoring Progress] Overview of the methods, purposes, and instruments used for monitoring progress. [|Checking for Understanding and Encouraging Meta-Cognition] Overview of the methods, purposes, and instruments used for checking for understanding and encouraging metacognition. [|Demonstrating Understanding and Skill] Overview of the methods, purposes, and instruments used for demonstrating understanding and skill. [|Digital Lessons] How can teachers build brief lessons with digital resources that inspire a high level of engagement while challenging students to interpret, analyze, synthesize and evaluate? [|Content Online Resources] Online resources organized by content areas. [|Recipes4Success Lesson Library]. Here you will find exciting, standards-based lessons for Tech4Learning products. Each lesson includes step-by-step directions for both teachers and students, as well as links to high-quality examples, templates, and support resources. [|Teachnology] Sample lesson plans in all the content areas.**
 * [|Graphic Organizer Templates] Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision king, studying, planning research and brainstorming.

Lesson Plan
 * [[file:Lesson Plan Format f08.doc]]

[|Web Resources] The** Intute: Virtual Training Suite** provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research. [|Teacher Tap] Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning. [|Educators Reference Desk] This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world. [|Literacy of Me] Universal Literacy Elements for Deeper and More Powerful Content Learning. [|TPACK] - Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK or TPACK)  [|Multiple Intellligence and Technology] [|Smart Technologies] Using technology in the classroom can have tremendous benefits for learners. The [|Education Podcast Network] is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century. [|Learn Out Loud] is proud to present the Internet's first directory for podcasts you can learn from. Top 50 Web 2.0 Wikispace listing the top 50 Web 2.0 by categories.