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I welcome you to read through this Wiki and to suggest any thoughts or ideas you have that might help this school to become the future of education. The discussion boards are open for you to pass on your thoughts.
I will use these pages to show you all of my thoughts and ideas as I work towards opening day of "Dream School International". I hope you will join me on this journey towards a modern and fulfilling education for the children of the 21st century.
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I encourage you to contribute any 'links and further resources' on the page of the same name. By collaborating with you on this section, I hope to build a resource source that can be used by all in future.
I look forward to your imput as we get closer and closer to the opening day of Dream School International.

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I welcome you to read through this Wiki and to suggest any thoughts or ideas you have that might help this school to become the future of education. The discussion boards are open for you to pass on your thoughts.
I will use these pages to show you all of my thoughts and ideas as I work towards opening day of "Dream School International". I hope you will join me on this journey towards a modern and fulfilling education for the children of the 21st century.

This is an interesting article about how to successfully create inclusive high school classrooms. I found this one interesting as it mentioned some of the themes that we have studied.
http://www.edc.org/newsroom/articles/inclusive_schools_portraits_excellence
Assessment in the High School Classroom
This is a useful website with some methods and discussion of various assessment tools for use in the classroom.
http://www.ehow.com/info_7902912_high-school-assessment-tools.html
Activities for High School students
This website makes lesson plans based on current world events. Good for discussion topics and some good ideas for activiites.
http://www.teachablemoment.org/high.html

This site is one of the best online resources I have seen for International school teachers. It has thousands of resources, lessons plans, and educational techniques. If you register for the site, you can receive weekly emails including ideas for lesson plans, class activities, and more. This is THE essential teaching resource site for International school teachers.
www.tes.co.uk
Another excellent resources for teachers with tons of ideas, links, articles, etc.
http://teachers.net/
This is a website that gives suggestions for the use of technology in the classroom. Check the forums for content specific suggestions.
http://www.teach-nology.com/

This site is one of the best online resources I have seen for International school teachers. It has thousands of resources, lessons plans, and educational techniques. If you register for the site, you can receive weekly emails including ideas for lesson plans, class activities, and more. This is THE essential teaching resource site for International school teachers.
www.tes.co.uk
This is a website that gives suggestions for the use of technology in the classroom. Check the forums for content specific suggestions.
http://www.teach-nology.com/
Multiple Inteligences:
This site explains the theory of multiple inteligences and gives you a chance to take a test to find out what multiple inteligences you have:
An article that discusses the best practices for differentiated teaching.
http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/innovation_choice/docs/bp/Nancy%20Blair_Differentiation%20Planner.pdf
Inclusive Education
This is an interesting article about how to successfully create inclusive high school classrooms. I found this one interesting as it mentioned some of the themes that we have studied.
http://www.edc.org/newsroom/articles/inclusive_schools_portraits_excellence

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Resources:
This site is one of the best online resources I have seen for International school teachers. It has thousands of resources, lessons plans, and educational techniques. If you register for the site, you can receive weekly emails including ideas for lesson plans, class activities, and more. This is THE essential teaching resource site for International school teachers.
www.tes.co.uk
Multiple Inteligences:
This site explains the theory of multiple inteligences and gives you a chance to take a test to find out what multiple inteligences you have:
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/what.cfm
Differentiation:
An excellent article about entitled 'Transforming Middle Schools'. Offers many instructional approaches and way of utlizing differentiation within the classrom.
http://www.turningpts.org/pdf/YALGuide2.pdf
An article that discusses the best practices for differentiated teaching.
http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/innovation_choice/docs/bp/Nancy%20Blair_Differentiation%20Planner.pdf

I will use these pages to show you all of my thoughts and ideas as I work towards opening day of "Dream School International". I hope you will join me on this journey towards a modern and fulfilling education for the children of the 21st century.
As you read the information that is listed here, please start by reading the 'Announcement of Intentions'. I then encourage you to explore the site as you like and finish by reading the section entitled "Wishes and Plans for the Future".
I encourage you to contribute any 'links and further resources' on the page of the same name. By collaborating with you on this section, I hope to build a resource source that can be used by all in future.
I look forward to your imput as we get closer and closer to the opening day of Dream School International.
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What patterns areReaders, Educators, and Students,
Thank you finding amongfor taking the various sites you've studied?
How does your current approachtime to teaching compare with those patterns?
What factors influence your current instructional approaches?
What findingsread through this presentation and contribute to the discussion boards. I would you rank as most importantlike to considertake a moment to summarize some of my thoughts on the Dream School International project.
In going through this research project in writinganticipation of opening Dream School International, I have noticed two definite patterns and those are mentions and references to inclusive education and mentions of a plan forlearner centered approach. I think that this shows just how important these two things, and so of course both will be strongly reflected in the work that we do at DSI.
I feel like all teachers are strongly influenced by their own histories both personally and with education. We teach what we know and, as a result, teachers who have had great relationships, struggles, and inquests with their subject matter are bound to make great teachers of it. I know that I am who I am because of the family that I grew up in and because of the great teachers that I encountered in my own education. I also know that I want to avoid some of the negative things that I have seen in education, and that's why I have pushed strongly for anti-bullying education, inclusion, and teachers who are in tune with who their students are.
I want this school you were leading?
What beliefs about teachingto become known for the quality education that it provides and to me this means tapping into all of the things that have the power to produce excellence. I believe that these include a 21st century approach to learning that uses technology in the classroom, lessons based on teaching the 'Skills of Life' and asking the 'Questions of Life', and using motivational tools and collaborative work to make sure that students are always intrigue, challenged, and driven to acheive.
I think that some of the most important tools that I have discovered through my research are the many online resources that are referenced here. I think that the internet is such a valuable tool for education and creates such an opportunity for collaboration among educators. I think that if each teacher were to includeinvestigate one new teaching tool, framework, or approach in your plan?
What ideas do you haveeach lesson that they plan, that those teachers would be able to create unique and meaningful lessons that their students would take with them throughout their lives.
The tools that are available for combining your beliefsEnglish teachers are vast. There is so much online already about methods for acheiving core standards, ways of teaching writing and learning, your findings from the New Jersey
standardsreading comprehension, and tools for expanding ones approach to language arts education. As an English teacher myself, I can only begin to express how excited I am on a personal level to have discovered so many resources and tools for education that I will be able to take into my own classroom now and in the recommendations fromfuture.
With the doors of Dream School International planned to be opening in just a few short weeks, I hope that you are as excited by what's to come as those of us on the board of trustees are, and, of course, when those doors open, I hope to see all of you there!
On behalf of our community of educators, I thank you for your subject area content experts?
continued support.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Gunter
Board of Trustees, Dream School International
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