Instructional Strategies

• Websites
• Publications

Websites

• www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/vidconf/instruct.html: Site on using video conferencing technology for interactive learning.
• Rethinking Schools Online: Articles that address the effectiveness of traditional instructional strategies that affect student learning in the classroom.
• Success for All: A comprehensive school restructuring program for the education of children in reading, writing, mathematics, and the social sciences.
• glossary.plasmalink.com/glossary.html: Plasma Link Web Services provides the Glossary of Instructional Strategies as a resource for all educators.
• www.sabine.k12.la.us/vrschool/instructstrat.htm : Site with multiple links on instructional strategies related to how students learn.
• www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/literacy/ lit_ins4.html: Useful instructional strategies for literature-based instruction.
• www.dal.ca/~oidt/taguide/ InstructionalStrategies.html: Annotated list of teaching styles with further links that provide additional instructions and explanations.
• www.ncpublicschools.org/best_practices/: Best practices and instructional strategies for principals and teachers, produced by North Carolina Department of Education. In most cases a contact person, school, or school district is provided for more comprehensive information.

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Publications

• North American Division Handbook for Principals. Contact your Conference or Union Office for a copy.
• The Journal of Adventist Education archive of all back issues, 1985-current, searchable by issue, author, keywords and title.
• What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action, Robert J. Marzano. NASSP, 2003. Book with suggestions on how schools can operate at advanced levels of effectiveness.
• What Works: Research About Teaching and Learning edited by William John Bennett. Wooster Book Company, 1996.
• Qualities of Effective Teachers, James H. Stronge. ASCD, 2002. Book with practical focus on how the teacher can become effective.
• School Leadership: Handbook for Excellence edited by Stuart C. Smith and Philip K. Piele. Univ. of Oregon Press, 1996. Book with chapters devoted to important roles such as developing leaders, transforming culture, leading the instructional program and staff, and details of managing the principal's role.
• The Principal: New Leadership for New Challenges, John T. Seyfarth. Prentice-Hall, 1999. Good chapters on the principal's roles and responsibility in creating and developing school atmosphere and culture and the principal as organizational and instructional leader and manager.
• The Principalship, Thelbert L. Drake and William H. Roe. Merrill Prentice Hall, 2003. Comprehensive discussion of the principal's various tasks and roles with selected readings concluding each chapter.
• Educational Leadership. www.ascd.org ASCD's flagship publication with sources of information about teaching and learning, new ideas and practices, and the latest trends and issues affecting pre-Kindergarten through higher education.
• Journal of Curriculum and Supervision. www.ascd.orgA refereed scholarly journal published quarterly. Abstracts of articles in current and archived issues available for ready access. The complete issues are available for sale.
• Principal Leadership. Journal of NASSP. Focuses on the school leader's need for practical strategies for improving the school. See especially the section on "Tips for Principals."

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