Mining the Gems: Individual Development
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Last Revised: October 2009

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• Primer: Materials on systems provided by the International Society for the Systems Sciences
• Defining the New Paradigm: from Proutist Universal
• Mental Model Musings by Gene Bellinger, Outsights
• Philosophy for Children
• The Tree of Philosophy by Stephen Palmquist
• Science and Religion 
• Internet resources related to science and religion on the WWW: by Bill Huitt
• The Metanexus Institute: Concerned with research, education and outreach on the constructive engagement of science and religion
• Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Faith and Reason by the Public Broadcasting System

II.  Introduction (Part B)

• Becoming a Brilliant Star: Holistic model of human development by Bill Huitt
• Holistic Education Institute UK: Roger Prentice, Director
• Holistic Education, Inc.
• Maps and Models of Holistic Education
• Mindmedia: The Human Self Improvement Software: Home Page
• Self Help/ Improvement Online - Positive Thinking and Self Talk on the Web

III. Spiritual Development

• Transpersonal Psychology Links from Bill Huitt
• What is a human being? Theosophical topics in depth
• Spirituality in Education from the Holistic Education Network
• Childspirit Institute: non-profit organization focused on understanding and nurturing the spirituality of children and adults 
• Spiritual Education Lesson Plans from spiritual-education.org

IV. Moral Character Development

• Character Matters from Russell Gough, Pepperdine University
• The Character Counts! Coalition
• Institute for Ethical Leadership
• The Institute for Global Ethics
• International Center for Character Education at the University of San Diego
• College and Character--a national initiative of the John Templeton Foundation
• The Virtues Project
• Ethics and Servant Leadership Program at Emory University
• Character Clearinghouse--provides information on building character on college and university campuses
• Studies in Moral Development and Education by Larry Nucci
• Character Education Lesson Plans: Links to web-based resources
• Commitment to Character Program materials: Developed by the Pinellas County (Florida) School District
• Peace Through Character Education: Sample lesson plans
• Character Through The Arts: Program overview and lesson units

V. Personal Style

• Values in Action: Inventory of Strengths: from Positive Psychology (Martin Seligman)-- http://www.viastrengths.org/
• Learning Styles Online-- http://www.learning-styles-online.com/
• Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire -- http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
• Jung Typology Test -- http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
• VARK: Guide to learning styles -- http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp
• Multiple Intelligence Inventory -- http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php

VI. Cognitive/Reasoning Development

• Self-talk
  • Self-talk: by Chad Osborne, Worchester State College, MA
• Cognitive and Concept Maps
  • The Concept Mapping Homepage by Jan Lanzing, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Cognitive Domain
  • Critical and Creative Thinking - Using Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Bloom's Taxonomy from Bill Huitt
  • Bloom's Taxonomy from Günter Krumme, University of Washington
• Intelligence
  • Overview of intelligence by G. Scott Acton, Northwestern University
  • Human intelligences: Indiana University, School of Education
• Multiple Intelligences
  • Multiple Intelligences: from the Holistic Education Network
  • Internet Links Exercising Your Multiple Intelligences (M.I.) by Scott McKenzie
  • Project SUMIT (Schools Using Multiple Intelligence Theory) at Harvard University
  • Multiple Intelligences Development Assessment Scales (MIDAS) from Charles Shearer
• Cognitive Development
  • The Jean Piaget Archives from the University of Geneva
  • The Jean Piaget Society
  • Jean Piaget from Celebrities in Cognitive Science by Martin Rider, University of Colorado at Denver
  • Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)
  • Vygotsky Analyzes Piaget's Developmental Theory
• Critical Thinking
  • Philosophy for Children: program developed by Matthew Lipman
  • The Critical Thinking Community at Sonoma State University
  • Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking at Boston University
  • The Critical Skills Program at the Antioch New England Graduate School
• Creative Thinking
  • Creative Thinking Activities
  • Great thinkers and visionaries
  • The Components of Creativity from BeMoreCreative
  • Creativity Web: Resources for creativity and innovation from Charles Cave
  • Innovation Toolbox: Creativity software for better brainstorming, creative thinking and problem solving
  • Teacher's Corner: Creative Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills Activities by Marc Brown
  • Brainstorming techniques from Brainstorming.co.uk
  • Parenting of K-6 children: Creativity links from About.com
  • Directed creativity by Paul Plsek
• Metacognition
  • The International Association for Metcognition
  • Metacognition from the Holistic Education Network
• Problem Solving & Decision Making
  • Think Quest -- Programs and web links focused on improvng thinking  
  • MindTools: Tools for Problem Solving, Decision Making, Memory Improvement and more
  • Decision Support Software from Banxia Software

• Overview
  • Affective Learning Companion: Project exploring the role of emotion in learning at MIT
  • CASEL: The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
  • Emotion, Memory & the Brain: from the LeDoux Lab, Center for Neural Science, New York University 
  • References to Paul Ekman's work on emotion and facial expression
  • Emotion (topic in general psychology course) by Gilles Einstein, Furman University
  • Stress Management for Teachers: by Dr. Hayman Kite and Mr. Ken Miller
  • Measures of Emotions and Happiness provided by Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania
• Emotional Intelligence
  • List of Positive Thinking and Self Talk Related Sites from Self-Improvement Online
  • ABC Australia: Smile School: Japanese Are Taught to Smile (2000; 7 minutes)
  • 6 seconds: Emotional intelligence network
  • EQ.org: An internet directory of EQ / EI / Emotional Intelligence sites, resources, and organizations.
  • The Collaborative to Advance Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) 
  • Emotional Intelligence: from edutopia
  • The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations
  • HeartMath: Books, software and other products focusing on emotional and social development
  • HealthEmotions Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin
  • Emotional Intelligence Inventory
• Values
  • Cornerstone Values: from the New Zealand Foundation for Character Education, Inc.
  • Living Values: Purpose of the site is to provide guiding principles and tools for the development of the whole person, recognizing that the individual is comprised of physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual dimensions
  • Values Education: A learning module developed by UNESCO
  • Institute for the Study of Civic Values
• Happiness
  • World Database of happiness from Ruut Veenhoven
• Resiliency
  • The Resiliency Center from Thrivenet
  • Project Resilience by Sybil and Steve Wolin

VIII. Conative/Volitional Development

• Build your own Personal Mission Statement from the Covey Leadership Center
• Failing forward: Turning mistakes into stepping stones of success by John C. Maxwell
• MyMotivator.com: Online program to create and help achieve your goals
• Assessment instrument for Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
• Self-Efficacy
  • Frank Pajares Resources on Self-efficacy
  • Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale: a 10-item psychometric scale designed to assess optimistic self-beliefs
  • Self-efficacy: The exercise of control by Albert Bandura: An outline of the book by Gio Valiante, Emory University
• Study Methods
  • Study Guides and Strategies from Joe Landsberger

IX. Social Development

• The Friends and Friendships Web: from Cyberparent

X. Awareness and Consciousness

• The Brain and Biology
  • The Brain From Top to Bottom: from McGill University, Canada
  • How Your Brain Works by Craig Freudenrich
  • The Human Brain from Discovering Psychology sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation
  • Brain Connection: A resource provided by Scientific Learning Corporation, Berkeley, CA
  • The Whole Brain Atlas: Images of the brain from several points of view using variety of imaging techniques
  • Brain structures and their function (Part of a presentation on comparative neuroanatomy)
  • The Secret Life of the Brain: 

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