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Resources for Teachers |
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U.S. Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov)
Here
you will find information on initiatives, laws, speeches, and other
efforts to pursue the mission of the department and to make the
President's education plan, No Child Left Behind, a reality.
The department houses and supports a number of organizations that
provide research, evaluation, and statistical information, and provides
many links to help you find education information, contracts, and
grants. |
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ASCD Web site (http://www.ascd.org)
The
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) provides
professional development in curriculum and supervision, initiates and
supports activities to provide educational equity for all students, and
serves as a world-class leader in education information services. |
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McREL
(http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks)
This
site contains a compilation of state standards for K–12 curriculum.
Browse articles, conference information, reference materials, and other
miscellaneous resources organized by key education topics and issues. |
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LessonPlanz.com
(http://www.LessonPlanz.com)
Offers
lesson plans and tips for all grade levels, as well as some selected
articles, including Robert Stahl's “Using Think-Time and Wait-Time
Skillfully in the Classroom.” See also the Tips area for suggestions
from other teachers, organized by topic area. See especially those
under “Organization.” |
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Sites for Teachers
(http://www.sitesforteachers.com)
Sitesforteachers.com
contains only links to sites that contain teachers' resource and
educational materials, and the sites are ranked by popularity.
Sitesforteachers.com has strict rules for the listed Webmasters. |
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Busy
Teachers' Web site K–12
(http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/welcome.html)
This site
features hundreds of organized resources for teachers to use in lesson
planning and classroom activities. |
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Education World
(http://www.education-world.com)
This
site is full of lesson plans, an education search engine, articles on a
variety of topics related to education, and many links to teacher
resources. |
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Education Week on the Web (http://www.edweek.com)
This site is
the home of Education Week—the
daily education newspaper containing special reports, local and
national education news, feature stories, and commentaries. Additional
resources, such as links to current events in education, state
departments of education, and major education organizations, can be
found here. The site is also home to the award-winning Teacher
Magazine. |
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New York Times
Learning Network (http://www.nytimes.com/learning)
At
the New York Times Learning Network, student resources include news
summaries, a daily news quiz, and a crossword puzzle. For teachers:
lesson plans and education news. And for parents: discussion topics and
educational product reviews. |
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Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators
(http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide)
These
pages contain tons of links to useful sites and information for any
busy teacher. The site comes highly recommended by many teachers. |
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Creating
a Climate for Learning: Effective Classroom Management Techniques
(http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr155.shtml)
Learn
how to stop nagging and start teaching. Includes 12 steps teachers can
take at the beginning of the year to promote effective classroom
management, a how-to for creating a parent/student/teacher
responsibilities compact, and 13 teacher-tested suggestions for
behavior management submitted by teachers. |
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Educator's Reference
Desk (http://www.eduref.org/Eric)
The
Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to ERIC, the
world's largest source of education information, with more than one
million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education
research and practice. |
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Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation (PARE)
(http://pareonline.net/)
PARE is an
online journal containing scholarly syntheses of research and ideas
about issues and practices in education. |
