Recommended Links
The following are links to recommended organizations and web sites that provide information on learning disabilities, ADHD, and other issues.
You can also see this list organized by type of organization, by focus, or by audience.
Interactive Classroom Activities
Provides ideas for a variety of interactive student activities, such as information gap, ordering and sorting, problem-solving, and conversation grids.
Interesting Things for ESL Students
A fun study site for English language learners with word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs, and much more.
Intermountain TESOL, an affiliate of International TESOL, provides professional development for ESL teachers in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming.
Intermountain TESOL, an affiliate of International TESOL, provides professional development for ESL teachers in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming.
Intermountain TESOL, an affiliate of International TESOL, provides professional development for ESL teachers in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming.
International Center of Indianapolis: Transitioning Refugees*
Transitioning Refugees: Connections at the Crossroads — A Resource Guide for Service Providers and Volunteer Mentors
International Children's Digital Library
An online library whose goal is to collect and make available the best historical and contemporary children's books from around the world, in their original language.
International Children's Digital Library
This digital library hosts a collection of books from around the world. Ultimately, this organization hopes to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature available from the world community.
International Dyslexia Association
The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) is an international organization that concerns itself with the complex issues of dyslexia. The IDA membership consists of a variety of professionals in partnership with people with dyslexia and their families. The IDA actively promotes effective teaching approaches and related clinical educational intervention strategies for people with dyslexia. We support and encourage interdisciplinary research. We facilitate the exploration of the causes and early identification of dyslexia and are committed to the responsible and wide dissemination of research based knowledge.
International Dyslexia Association
The International Dyslexia Association is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to the study and treatment of the learning disability, dyslexia. The International Dyslexia Association actively promotes effective teaching approaches and related clinical educational intervention strategies for dyslexics. IDA supports and encourages interdisciplinary study and research, facilitates the exploration of the causes and early identification of dyslexia and is committed to the responsible and wide dissemination of research-based knowledge.
International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council
The International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC) accredits quality Multisensory Structured Language Education training courses. Accredited courses meet IMSLEC criteria and instructional program standards for preparing specialists in Multisensory Structured Language Education.
International Reading Association
The International Reading Association is a professional membership organization dedicated to promoting high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating research and information about reading, and encouraging the lifetime reading habit. IRA members include classroom teachers, reading specialists, consultants, administrators, supervisors, university faculty, researchers, psychologists, librarians, media specialists, and parents.
International Reading Association: ELL Resources
The International Reading Association suggests resources for educators to meet the needs of English-language Learners (ELLs), including recommended reading, lesson plans, and literacy links.
Links to information on relief efforts in various countries around the world.
Free and online, multilingual picture dictionary with interactive activities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
Articles, research papers, lesson plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas, and links are compiled in this monthly Web journal.
Internet TESL Journal: Writing Resources
Lots of links to a variety of writing resources to use with ELL students from the Teachers of English as a Second Language (TESL) Journal. Many of the them are targeted toward more advanced ELL students, but there are so many links there is something for everyone.
Interstate Migrant Education Council (IMEC)
The mission of IMEC is to advocate policies that ensure the highest quality education and other needed services for the nation's migrant children.
Career Services at Virginia Tech gives specifics for interview attire for both men and women.
Introduction to Thinking Skills
This site from Iowa's Area Education Agency 267 provides templates for educators to use to enhance higher order thinking skills, including samples of types of questions that can stimulate students to think more critically.
