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Also TryDiscussionsLists
- -Teacher Contacts (Classroom Connect)
Provides contact information with other teachers. Find them by name, school, age of students or subject subject taught.
- Ask CyberScout (McGraw-Hill)
Provides Web addresses to fit curriculum materials. Designed for use by Kindergarten to eighth grade teachers only. 8-99
- Ask the Teacher (SAMI)
Provides direct assistance to teachers in gaining resources for classrooms. Assistance provided by 12 teacher mentors. 1-01
- Teacher Talk (Mighty Media)
Provides a forum for teachers and other resources.
- Teacher's Lounge (Real Kids Real Adventures)
Provides a variety of interactive activities for teachers.
Materials
- Classroom Resources (K-12 Classroom Connection)
Provides links of interest to teachers.
12-99- Cultural Competence (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information for improving cultural competence in serving persons from diverse backgrounds. 3-02
- Popular Sites for Teachers (Sites for Teachers)
Provides rankings of sites for teachers, based on the number of page views that the site contributes to SitesforTeachers.com. (Popularity is not based on the number of page views that the listed site receives.) 9-00
- Resources for Teachers (McGraw-Hill)
- Teacher Resources (Ask Jeeves for Teachers)
Provides sources of resources by type. 8-00
- Teacher Resources (Discovery.com)
Provides educational resources, such as lesson plans, for teachers. 1-01
- Teacher's Guide to U.S. Department of Education (U.S. Department of Education) 11-00
- Teaching Positions Wanted or Available (Academic Employment Network)
Papers
- Post and Read Homework Assignments (HomeworkNOW)
Provides free Web space for teachers to post their assignments and for students and parents to read. 10-00
- Teen Pregnancy Prevention Resources for Teachers (Campaign for Our Children)
Periodicals
- -Glossary - Education Terms (Editorial Products in Education - Parker)
Provides a list of education terms, including definitions.
- Bullying in the Workplace (UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line)
Discusses myths about bullying and suggests solutions for stopping bullying in the workplace. 1-02
- Bush Education Proposal to Congress (U.S. Department of Education)
Provides a summary of key provisions of President Bush's proposal for education reform.
- Child Abuse - The Hidden Bruises (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Provides basic suggestions.
- Classroom Management (Teachers Helping Teachers)
- Classroom Management Series (Teachers Helping Teachers)
Provides tips from one teacher to another.
- Conduct Disorders (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Provides basic suggestions.
- Cultural Competence (Elliott, Adams, and Sockalingam)
Provides specific behaviors that may destroy (or enhance) mutual respect and trust between teachers and students from diverse backgrounds. 3-02
- Emphasis on Teaching (Brain)
Provides 10 articles to inspire good teaching, such as how to create knowledge holes for your students to fill. Uses college level examples.
- Free Stuff for Teachers - Links (D'Souza)
Provides sources of information. 4-00
- Free Stuff for Teachers - Tips (D'Souza)
Provides 5 tips for gaining free stuff from large organizations.
- Freebies for Teachers (Mining Company - Seats)
- Helping Students Assess Their Thinking (Paul and Elder) 3-00
- Helping Your Child Learn Responsible Behavior (US Dept of Education)
- Improving African American Student Achievement (NWREL - Kuykendall)
Provides ways that teachers can improve their feedback to African American students and, as a result, contribute to their academic achievement. "Good's summary (1981) of teachers' behavior toward those students perceived as low achievers includes:
providing students with general, often insincere praise
providing them will less feedback,
demanding less effort of them,
interrupting them more often,
seating them farther away from the teacher,
paying less attention to them,
calling on them less often,
waiting less time for them to respond to questions,
criticizing them more often, and
smiling at them less.
Research indicates that reversing these negative behaviors improves student achievement. 3-02- Integrated Curriculum
- K - 12 Jobs Available
- K - 12 Teacher Certification by State
Provides email, phone, and other contact information for certification information by state.
- Lesson Plans (Levine)
Provides close to 100 sources for lesson plans across subjects.
- Manual to Combat Truancy
- Priorities - National Education Priorities (U.S. Department of Education)
Provides President Bush and the Secretary of Education's priorities for federal education initiatives.
- Priorities for the U.S. Department of Education 12-01
- Professionalization of Teaching (NCES)
Provides results of a study on the professionalization of teaching, especially in relationship to teachers' commitment to their careers. 3-00
- Teacher's Salaries
- Teaching African American Children (EdWeek.org - Del Vecchio)
Provides a review of the book Other People's Children by Lisa Delpit. 3-02
- The Depressed Child (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Provides basic suggestions.
- Universal Standards for Critical Thinking (Elder and Paul) 3-00
- Valuable Intellectual Traits (CCT) 3-00
- Waste - Creating Less Trash at School (Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance)
Provides suggestions for reducing waste at school. Uses PDF format. 12-01
- Why Students - and Some Teachers - Do Not Reason Well (Foundation for Critical Thinking) 3-00
Projects
- I'm a Teacher (Weekly Reader)
- Teacher Talk
- Teacher's Edition Online (TeachNet)
Provides articles of interest for K - 12 teachers.
Purchase Resources
- -Homework Assignments from Teachers (Data Sense, Inc. - SchoolNotes)
Provides homework assignments and other notes from teachers participating in the program. A free service for parents to keep up with their children's homework and encourage better communication between parents and teachers.
- Grade Checker (Johnson)
Provides a sample of how a grade checker Web site could be instituted within a school to improve collaboration among teachers, students, and parents.
- Teacher Leadership Forum and Questions (Dept of Ed)
Trips
- Books Written for (a.) Teachers (Amazon.com)
Provides lessons, curricula, teaching strategies, and more. Awesome Library does not recommend the resources, but provides them as examples. 1-02
- Books Written for (b.) Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers (Amazon.com)
Provides lessons, curricula, teaching strategies, and more. Awesome Library does not recommend the resources, but provides them as examples. 1-02
- Books Written for (c.) Elementary School Teachers (Amazon.com)
Provides lessons, curricula, teaching strategies, and more. Awesome Library does not recommend the resources, but provides them as examples. 1-02
- Books Written for (d.) Middle School Teachers (Amazon.com)
Provides lessons, curricula, teaching strategies, and more. Awesome Library does not recommend the resources, but provides them as examples. 1-02
- Books Written for (e.) High School Teachers (Amazon.com)
Provides lessons, curricula, teaching strategies, and more. Awesome Library does not recommend the resources, but provides them as examples. 1-02
- Books Written for (f.) College Teachers (Amazon.com)
Provides lessons, curricula, teaching strategies, and more. Awesome Library does not recommend the resources, but provides them as examples. 1-02
- Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing (EEI Press - Taylor)
Provides a book by Schwartz and the Task Force on Bias-Free Language of the Association of American University Presses to help writers reduce bias and sexist usage. Awesome Library does not endorse the book, but provides it as an example.1-02
- Office Supplies (Awesome Library)
Provides two sources of online discount office supplies, Office Max and Staples. Awesome Library does not endorse the merchants, but provides them as examples. 1-02
Worksheets
- Class Trips Search (ClassTrips.com)
Search for class trips by grade, subject, and city. Limited choices on cities and subjects.
- Class Trips by Subject (ClassTrips.com)
- Worksheets by Subject (School Express)
Provides worksheets for use by teachers and parents, including materials for language arts, math, geography, science, social studies, phonics, and preschool.