1. Sites related to peer teaching
2. General links to education and government agencies, associations, etc.

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SITES RELATED TO PEER TEACHING

(last updated 20 October 2006)

Breakthrough Collaborative
http://www.breakthroughcollaborative.org/

British high school peer teachers in music
http://www.isme.org/article/articleview/254/1/17/

Cadet tchrs (DeKalb County, Georgia)
http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/~swdekalb/cadets.html

Cadet teacher program (South Carolina)
http://www.CERRA.org/cadets

CRISS (CReating Independence through Student-owned Strategies)
http://www.projectcriss.com/

Cross-Age Tutoring: An Annotated Bibliography
http://mathforum.org/~sarah/Discussion.Sessions/
biblio.crossage.html

Cooper Elem. Grade 2/3 Multi-age classes
http://internal.vusd.solanocoe.k12.ca.us/Cooper/
Prog/Grade23.htm

ERIC digest (1993) on peer tutoring
http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/digests/d78.html

Home-School Peer Teaching (Alaska)
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/millennium.htm

JosseyBass: To Teach is to Learn

http://www.josseybass.com/cda/product/0,,0913317489,00.html

Missouri Botanical Gardens - ECO-ACT cross-age peer teaching program

http://www.mobot.org/education/ecoact/index.html

North Carolina Teacher Cadet Program
http://www.ncae.org/structure/teachercadet.shtml

Ohio Career Paths for the Teaching Profession
http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?page=3&TopicRelationID=813&Content=18413

Open Court Reading
http://www.sraonline.com/oc_home.html

Peer and cross-age tutoring - article from the School Improvement Research Series
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/9/c018.html

Peer Editing (Los Angeles)
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/composition/
peerediting.html

Peer Learning (PowerPoint by Pat Seaver about CALL
Computer-Assisted Language Learning)
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~patrickseaver/peer/index.htm

Peer mentoring: Make a Friend — Be A Mentor - from Youth in Action magazine
http://www.ncjrs.org/html/youthbulletin/9907-4/contents.html

Peer teaching in the chemistry lab (higher ed course description)
http://www.mcmaster.ca/cll/posped/pastissues/volume.1.no.2/
peer.teaching.in.the.lab.htm

Peer teaching and technology limitations: The One Computer Classroom
http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/bcisd/classres/onecomp.htm

Peer teaching and technology abundance: Amy Levigne-Benore
http://www.idaschools.org/amy/peerteaching.html

Peer teaching in English class - Erin Farley
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher
_feature018.shtml

Peer teaching in urban high schools - Kenneth Tobin's activities
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/urbaneducation/tobin/Peer_Teaching.htm

Project-Based Learning (California)
http://rvsd.marin.k12.ca.us/brookside/pbl.htm

Reciprocal Teaching - A Reading Strategy
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/promising/tips/rec.html

RISE (Reading In Secondary Education - San Diego)
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/pdop/rise/
Click on 'Modules'; see especially Module 4, Managing Student-directed Instruction. Also, click on the 'Community' icon to participate in teacher discussions about teaching reading.

Recruiting New Teachers, Inc. program for youth who are thinking of teaching as a career.
http://www.rnt.org/channels/clearinghouse/audience/
middlehigh/default.htm

Science Pathways
http://www.learnpath.com/products/pathways/prim_science.htm

Slovakia: Bratislava Peer Teaching (in Slovak, German, and Italian)
http://www.gemeinsamlernen.de/euconet/Projects/Bratislava

South Carolina Teacher Cadet Program
http://www.CERRA.org/cadets

SRA Reading Mastery
http://www.sraonline.com/oc_home.html

Texas Association of Future Educators (T.A.F.E.)

http://www.tafeonline.org

UNESCO ICT Peer Teaching Program in India
http://www2.unesco.org/wef/f_conf/00000052.htm

Wildlife Biology Club
http://wildlifebio.myteacher.dvusd.com/
(College level but good ideas for k12.)

Youth Action Network
http://www.youthactionnet.org/
(Click on "Discussion Forum", then on "Peer Teaching".)

GENERAL EDUCATION and GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, and ASSOCIATIONS

(last updated 20 October 2006)

American Federation of Teachers
http://www.aft.org/

American Orff-Schulwerk Association

http://www.aosa.org

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
http://www.ascd.org/

Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (Univ. of Washington)
http://depts.washington.edu/ctpmail/

Center for Re-Inventing Public Education
http://www.crpe.org/about.shtml

Character Plus
http://www.characterplus.org

Council of the Great Cities Schools
http://www.cgcs.org/

ECEPT (Electronic Collaboration for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers)
http://ecept.net/

Education Week Online
http://www.edweek.com/

Educational Testing Service (ETS)
http://www.ets.org/

Expanding Human Potential (EHP)

http://www.expandinghumanpotential.com

Future Educators Association (PDK)
http://www.pdkintl.org/fea/feahome.htm

Great Schools Network
http://www.greatschools.net/

Harvard Project Zero
http://pzweb.harvard.edu/

HOENNY CENTER
http://www.hoennycenter.org

Home School Learning Network
http://www.homeschoollearning.com/

Learning First Alliance
http://www.learningfirst.org/

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
http://www.nbpts.org/

National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/

National Education Association
http://www.nea.org/

New Horizons
http://www.newhorizons.org

National Mentoring Center
http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/

Ohio Future Educators Association
http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEPrimary.aspx?Page=2&TopicID=517&TopicRelationID=561

On-the-job Peer Mentoring
http://www.peermentoring.com/

Recruiting New Teachers Clearinghouse
http://www.recruitingteachers.org/

Reggio Emilia - North American Reggio Emilia Alliance
http://www.reggioalliance.org/

US Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp

What Works Clearinghouse
http://www.w-w-c.org/

Youth Crime Watch of America
http://www.ycwa.org/index.html