Learning Styles-There is much conversation today about learning styles of students and how teachers accomodate students different learning strengths. This site has results from research about learning styles and how children develop as learners throughout their lives. It also has suggestions of how to teach students that possess the differrent learning styles. Modalities are defined with how to best reach students with different tactics.
This site is beneficial for teachers that have a varied student population of learning styles, which is basically most classrooms. There are some great suggestions on organizing your classroom, rules, teaching at-risk students, links to many other sites on the topic, and suggested activities to teach students. Some links that can be useful to teachers are books on the topic of learning styles and on brain theory research and “The Education Place” home page developed for educators with many links to educational sites for teachers.
I learned about some new ways to brainstorm, how teachers in North Carolina are using learning style techniques in their classrooms, and some research about learning that is new to me. This is a great site for aspiring and veteran teachers, alike. Since not all studetns learn in the same way, teachers need to know how teach in a way that will reach all of their learners.
National Center for Research on Teacher Learning-This website is based in the College of Education at Michigan State University. It is a site dedicated to teacher education research. NCRTL has an emphasis on teacher learning with concerns in public expectations for schools, teachers as learners, teachers connecting subject matter to learning, and teachers learning environments.
This site is beneficial to educators because there are many publications and brochures available for teachers to download in pdf format. Each report comes with an abstract to help with easy selection of documents that may be valuable to teachers. All of the publications deal with teacher learning and practices.
From this site I learned of many topics that are being researched by NCRTL. The results of the studies are available for teachers to learn how to become a better teacher and findings that will make teachers think about thier current practices.