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Classroom Management
Discussions
Educational Associations
Professional Development
Research for Teachers
Also Try
- Home Schooling
- Lesson Plans
- Multidisciplinary
- Preschool
- Problem Solving
- School Improvement
- Teacher Oriented Resources
Discussions
- 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.
Lists
- 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)
Materials
- Awesome Talking Library (Awesome Library)
Converts online text into spoken words through the Awesome Talkster program. Awesome Talkster has one of the clearest synthesized voices on the Web.
Converting online text into speech has many uses. For example, Talkster can speak online stories or books to children while an adult supervises. The voice can be put in "Boy" or "Girl" mode to add a character with a bubble over his or her head. The bubble will show each word as it is spoken and the voice can be put on "slow" for your child to follow. Talkster can thereby assist your child in learning how to pronounce words while reading.
Talkster is also useful for adults. It can speak news articles to you in one open browser while you are searching for information in another browser window.
For persons with visual impairments or poor coordination, Talkster can be navigated with keystrokes.
The Web can be navigated using a version of Awesome Library in a different language, such as Spanish, while using a voice for that language that is available through the Awesome Talkster. Links to different language versions of the Awesome Library are available at the bottom of most Awesome Library pages. Links to free voices for different languages can be found on the Awesome Talking Library's help page. 9-02
- 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)
Papers
- -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
- Child Abuse - The Hidden Bruises (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Provides basic suggestions. 1-04
- 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. 1-04
- Critical Behaviors and Strategies for Teaching Culturally Diverse Students (ERIC Digests - Burnette)
Recommends teacher behaviors and other school factors that have worked well with culturally diverse students. "Of all of these factors, the personal and academic relationships between teachers and their students may be the most influential." 6-02
- 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
- Depression in Children (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Provides basic suggestions. 1-04
- 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
- 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
Periodicals
- I'm a Teacher (Weekly Reader)
- Teacher Talk
- Teacher's Edition Online (TeachNet)
Provides articles of interest for K - 12 teachers.
Projects
- -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.
- Application for National Board Certification (NBPTS.org)
Provides information for teachers to apply for certification with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. 10-03
- 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)
Purchase Resources
- 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
Trips
- 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
- 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.
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