Education

Exploring education, schools, teaching, and learning.

• Scrap
• Links
  • Chicago
  • Miscellany

Scrap

• Three top things that improve teaching kids:
  • Individual attention.
  • Finding and using the students personal learning style.
  • Parental involvement.
• 'The Zeigarnik effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones. Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik first studied the phenomenon after noticing that waiters seemed to remember orders only so long as the order was in the process of being served. Some suggest that students who wish to remember material better should leave learning unfinished when taking breaks, according to the effect. It is also suggested that the effect is behind the cliffhanger plot device.' -Zeigarnik effect [W]. See more at List of cognitive biases [W]

Links

Links that lead to off-site pages education, schools, teaching, and learning.

Chicago

• Pre-University
  • Illinois
    • Illinois.gov/learning/
      • List of Illinois school districts.
    • ISBE.net. 'Illinois State Board of Education'
  • Cook County
    • Cook.k12.il.us
      • Map of Suburban Cook County School Districts
  • Chicago (District #299 in Illinois)
    • Chicago Public Schools (CPS) [cps.k12.il.us].
      • Elementary & High School Regions
        • Elementary & High School Areas
      • First Class Program [firstclass.cps.k12.il.us]. 'Chicago Public Schools alternative certification program. And it's your first step towards a whole new career - with a whole new meaning.'
    • CPS Office of Academic Enhancement [cpsoae.org]. Magnet and selective enrollment schools. As of 2010, there are 9 Selective Enrollment High Schools:
      • Brooks College Prep
      • Jones College Prep
      • King College Prep
      • Lane Tech [lanetech.org]. I'm a 1986 alumnus and a lifetime member of LaneAlumni.com
      • Lindblom Math and Science
      • Northside College Prep
      • Payton College Prep
      • Westinghouse College Prep
      • Whitney Young Magnet
    • Chicago Teaching Fellows [chicagoteachingfellows.org]. 'The Chicago Teaching Fellows provides a pathway for outstanding individuals to become teachers in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and to significantly impact the academic achievement of our city's children. We look to you, successful professionals and recent college graduates, to bring your knowledge, experience, and records of achievement to the classrooms where your leadership is needed most.'
    • GoldenApple.org. A Chicago based not-for-profit organization that promotes excellence in grade school education through teachers.
    • GrowParents.com/cps/. The CPS uses GrowParents to distribute the results of standardized test but it is also a resource for child education.
  • School Report Cards
    • Illinois Schools Report Cards.
    • Chicago Schools Report Cards.
    • Grade schools [Chicago Tribune]
    • High schools [Chicago Tribune]
    • Schools [Sun-Times]
• Universities
  • Chicago State University [CSU.edu]
  • City Colleges of Chicago [CCC.edu]. Including
    • Richard J. Daley College [Daley.ccc.edu]
    • Harold Washington College [HWashington.ccc.edu]
    • Kennedy-King College [KennedyKing.ccc.edu]
    • Malcolm X College [ccc.edu/MalcolmX]
    • Olive-Harvey College [OliveHarvey.ccc.edu]
    • Harry S Truman College [TrumanCollege.cc]
    • Wilbur Wright College [Wright.ccc.edu]
    • Center for Distance Learning [CDL.ccc.edu]
    • WYCC Channel 20 - 21DT [WYCC.ccc.edu]
  • College of DuPage [CoD.edu]
  • College of Lake County [CLCIllinois.edu]
  • Columbia College [Colum.edu]
  • DePaul University [DePaul.edu]
  • Dominican University [Rosary.edu]
  • Elmhurst College [Elmhurst.edu]
  • Governors State University [GovSt.edu]
  • Harper College [HarperCollege.edu]
  • Illinois Institute of Technology [IIT.edu]
  • Joliet Junior College [JJC.cc.il.us]
  • Lake Forest College [LFC.edu]
  • Loyola University of Chicago [LUC.edu]
  • Northeastern Illinois University [NEIU.edu]
  • Northern Illinois University [NIU.edu]
  • Northwestern University [NWU.edu]
  • Oakton Community College [Oakton.edu]
  • Roosevelt University [Roosevelt.edu]
  • School of the Art Institute [ArtIC.edu]
  • Triton College [Triton.edu]
  • University of Chicago [UChicago.edu]
  • University of Illinois at Chicago [UIC.edu]. I'm a 1992 alumnus.
  • Wheaton College [Wheaton.edu]
• Miscellany
  • BrightStartSavings.com. Save for your kid's college with earnings free from federal and Illinois state taxes.

Teach Yourself

• "12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free" [http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/15/12-dozen-places-to-self-educate-yourself-online/]
• Creating Learning Communities [CreatingLearningCommunities.org]. 'The Coalition for Self-Learning envisions and co-creates a world of cooperative life-long learning communities.'
• How Stuff Works [howstuffworks.com]
• Khan Academy [khanacademy.org]. "The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. We have 1200+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan."
• MIT Open Courseware [ocw.mit.edu]. Free (gratis) online courses from MIT.
• Open Culture [openculture.com]. Tries to find and centralize the best free (gratis) cultural and educational media on the Web.
• Tufts Open Courseware [ocw.tufts.edu]
• udacity.com. Free university level classes online.

Miscellany

• A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Web Site [HomeSchooling.GoMilpitas.com]
• Book Adventure [BookAdventure.org]. 'a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation and is sponsored by Sylvan Learning, Inc. '
• edX [edxonline.org]. "EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to millions of people around the world. EdX will offer Harvard and MIT classes online for free.
• GrowParents.com.
• Harvard Medical School Open Courseware Initiative [mycourses.med.harvard.edu/public]
• Homeschooling [W]
• Open Yale Courses [oyc.yale.edu]
• Scholastic.com. 'We've got everything teachers and parents need to get kids off to a smart start.'

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