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Survival Resources
For First-year Teachers
Beginning teachers
This comprehensive site offers links to information about classroom management, seating arrangements, parent communication and lesson planning.
This comprehensive site offers links to information about classroom management, seating arrangements, parent communication and lesson planning.
Diary of a First Year Teacher
What's it like to be a brand new teacher, responsible for teaching a class of first graders how to read? Find out by following Barbara Zielinski, a new teacher who's been sending us weekly diary entries that are inspiring, informative, and at times humorous. The diary marks the beginning of Reading Rockets' First Year Teacher program, a pilot project that provides new K-2 teachers with intensive training and mentoring on how to teach reading. What do you think of a teacher's first year? A couple of folks have already commented. Your thoughts are welcome as well!
Education World. Advice for first-year teachers: 'Sophomores' who survived last year!
This site offers advice from sophomore teachers, an archive of educational articles, reference material and lesson plan help.
Explorers/New teachers
This site offers advice on how to begin, how to find support, enhance professionalism, as well as tips on practical things such as grading papers.
First year teacher links
This site offers links to other sites with even more links. Comprehensive. Includes resources, taxonomies, discipline tips, communication opportunities and more.
First year urban teacher
A comprehensive teacher website, including invaluable resources for lesson planning, classroom management and more for urban teachers, particularly first year urban teachers.
Ideas for First Year Teachers
Includes tips for using technology, stress management, classroom managements, lessons and more.
Intervention Central
Offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth. Visit regularly for newly posted academic and behavioral intervention strategies, downloadable publications on effective teaching practices, and tools that streamline classroom assessment and intervention.
LDOnline
For information and resources when working with children with attention deficits and/or learning disabilities, visit ldonline. LDonline also offers a free e-newsletter.
Establishing a Home-School Connection
Learn how to establish effective communication between parents and teachers.
Student teachers/First year teachers
Includes resources and advice on discipline, classroom management, resumes, games and lessons.
Tips and strategies from first year teachers
First-year teachers had a lot of it to offer to new teachers who follow them. Teachers also offered practical advice on classroom management, working with parents, and more. From "What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching", September 1998. Linked from the U.S. Dept. of Ed Web site.
U.S. Department of Education: Resources for first-year teachers Web site for first-year teachers
Comprehensive website listing links for every possible need for teachers: resources, ideas, tips, suggestions, guides, and more.
You Can Handle Them All
Comprehensive website on discipline, understanding misbehaviors and student needs. A teacher can look up 117 different types of misbehavior and learn step-by-step techniques in handling it as well as what common mistakes to avoid.
General Teaching Resources
TeacherFirst
Funderstanding
Has many topics, brain based learning, constructivist learning, etc. It has simple definitions, and, more importantly, solid practical information. Such information includes "implications for teaching and curriculum development."
Education World
ERIC Elementary and Early Childhood Educational Resources
Has links to numerous resources for teachers of young children including links to professional organizations.
Funderstanding
Has many topics, brain based learning, constructivist learning, etc. It has simple definitions, and, more importantly, solid practical information. Such information includes "implications for teaching and curriculum development."
Education World
ERIC Elementary and Early Childhood Educational Resources
Has links to numerous resources for teachers of young children including links to professional organizations.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
The one-stop website designed to help teachers, parents, & students find teaching & learning resources from more than 40 federal organizations & agencies.
Freedom Forum
An excellent website for teachers interested in any First Amendment issue.
IDEA practices
Offers information about resources for serving children with special education needs. It also has information about special education laws and regulations: FREE!
ISTE National Standards for Technology in Teacher Preparation
National Council of Teachers of English Standards
Click on "Foundations" to see the "ISTE Recommended Foundations in Technology for All Teachers" by the International Society for Technology in Education that have been adopted as the NCATE Technology Accreditation Standards.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards National Council for the Social Studies
The NCSS is the nation's premier social studies organization providing innumerable teaching resources, national/regional conventions, and many related links.
Ohio Council for the Social Studies
The OCSS is the NCSS affiliate providing teaching resources, state/local conferences, and regional links to the organization .
Pitsco's Ask An Expert
Find experts to answer your questions from the Amish lifestyle to facts about zookeeping. Ask an Expert is a directory of links to people who have volunteered their time to answer questions and webpages that provide information.
Reading Rockets A national multimedia project that looks at how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help them. It is funded through a grant by the Office of Special Education Programs. They publish a newsletter available by email to keep you up to date on available resources and new research findings.
Tapped In
In addition to providing electronic resources, it also provides teachers with places to chat and post discussion items.
ThinkQuest
This is the homepage for the Think Quest organization, which holds an annual competition for Web Site creation by students age 12-19. The Web Sites must be created completely by students, they must be educational, and the students must work collaboratively in teams. Visitors to this site can explore the winning projects to see the best examples or search all projects by subject area.
Teaching.com
University of Tennessee Center for Environmental Conservation & Education Online
This resource for science teachers of grades K-8 provides a highly organized sequence of science subjects and concepts to be taught in the classrooms at different grade levels, incorporating and applying the national science benchmarks and standards. Each terminal/content objective has been organized into a classroom connector which begins with a Set and ends with a Closure. This site maps our the overall structure and sequence as well as individual lesson plans and hands-on activities, including the themes necessary to raise activities to a higher cognition level.