Education Links
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Director and teacher, Dushanbe |
Web Resources for Tajikistan
varorud.org (Russian)
This website is very useful for schools in the Sugd region.
You can find information about the history, geography, and
economy of this region here.
tajikistan.tajnet.com
(Russian/English)
Non-traditional lessons by Firuza Nurulloeva, a biology and
ecology teacher from a private gymnasium in Dushanbe called
'Tajikistan'. She teaches how to prevent ecological problems
in Tajikistan.
Web Resources in Russian
Schools Online Resources
Schools Online offers several valuable resources for teacher development and technical assistance, such as a Web Mentoring site and booklet, connectivity guide, and resources on sustainability and assessment. Many of these resources are in Russian as well as English, and are available for download in a variety of formats.
Project Harmony IATP Resources
On this website you can find information about Internet use and links to other educational websites. This website is both in English and in Russian. The links listed below have information in Word about using the Internet and how to create newsletters and press releases. There is also information about Internet culture and the Internet for teachers.
school.mos.ru
On this website you can find a collection of about 800 links
to websites on education subjects for teachers, students,
and school administrators. There are links to websites on
mathematics, biology, history, chemistry, information technology
and others for 5th to 11th grades. Teachers can find new methods
of teaching and information on how to search the Internet.
Students of English can find information the learning process,
tests, lessons on-line, examinations, programs, and translations.
olympiads.ru
This site contains information about school Olympiads on information
science and mathematics, with links to useful information
about how to prepare for different Olympiads. This website
is Orionted more towards the process of learning than for
competition among students in a school.
Web Resources in English
National Geographic Xpeditions
The National Geographic site has a variety of lesson plans and activities online, organized by subject, grade level, and category (such as Places and Regions, Environment and Society, and The Uses of Geography). The lessons focus on geography and cross-cultural understanding.
SCORE History-Social Science
This site is part of a network of Online Resource Centers in California linking resources from the World Wide Web to the California curriculum. It compiles a variety resources and lessons by topic and grade level.
reading.org
The first page is in Russian, but the whole website is in English. On this website you can find articles about education from all over the world, such as:
- "Reading, Writing, Critical Thinking and Elephants: Designing Meaning by Means of Text" By Ondrey Houzenblas
- "Our Position – Learn to Think" By Elena Garaeva and Janna Rakhmanjanova
- "Thinking Development in Co-Working with Parents, Volunteers and Friends" By Kit Topping
- "Noise in the Classroom: Barrier or New Possibility?" By Igor Zagashev
Kindersite
The mission of the Kindersite Children's Internet Research
Tool is:
1. To offer early learners, from the age of 2 years, a safe
and engaging environment whereby they can find and use appropriate
content on the Internet, in the form of games, stories and
songs, as an alternative choice of entertainment that may
have educational value.
2. To offer academic educational researchers a tool that can
measure and correlate data on children's use of content on
the site, according to their research criteria. The project
will incorporate a mechanism whereby the research can be followed-up
offline.
Smithsonian Education
This site has resources for students, educators, and parents.
A place for kids to discover, explore, and learn about art,
science and nature, history and culture, and people and places.
Bridges for Education
The purpose of Bridges for Education is to promote tolerance
and understanding
using English as a bridge. This site has information about
conferences, partnerships with other schools, and useful links.
teaching.com
For teachers in primary and secondary classrooms who are seeking
partner schools, this site has information about cultural
projects and email exchanges. The site contains a growing
list of publications related to e-mail and Internet activities
in the classroom.
Digital Sisters
This site includes online tutorials and teacher resources on basic computer skills, gender equity, and technology in education.
Teachers Without Borders
An organization that works to bring teachers together through training and learning, this site has a list of useful teacher resources for global collaboration, mentoring, lesson plans, culture and health resources, assessment, and free software.
The Tajikistan School Connectivity Project for Central Asia
is a project of Relief International - Schools Online's
Global Citizenship & Youth Philanthropy Program and has been
made possible with major funding from the United States State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Global Catalyst
Foundation. |
